Pre-Birth & Early Years - Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership

Pre-birth – Safeguarding unborn babies

> Please refer to the Southwest Child Protection Procedures (SWCPP) chapter Pre-birth (safeguarding unborn babies) for full information on working with families to safeguard unborn babies whose families may have identified vulnerability and risk indicators.

Somerset Pre-Birth Planning Toolkit

This toolkit has been produced by the safeguarding partnership to support practitioners working with pregnant women and their families, and is used in conjunction with the South West Child Protection Procedures Pre-birth Protocol to inform safeguarding decision making.

> Somerset Pre-birth Planning Toolkit

Somerset Pre-Birth Workbook

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership has produced an online modular resource in collaboration with practitioners from across the partnership, to help support practitioners across Somerset who are working with new parents in the pre-birth period.

> Access the Somerset Pre-birth Workbook here

Modules are intended to be undertaken collaboratively with families, with the primary goal of helping parents to understand how to care for their new-born baby and to develop their parenting skills so that they are able to keep their baby safe.

ICON

ICON is here to help prevent abusive head trauma and is an evidence-based programme consisting of a series of brief ‘touchpoint’ interventions that reinforce the simple message making up the ICON acronym.

Access the free ICON eLearning

Find links to ICON practical resources (posters/leaflets) below:

> Find ICON Printable posters, leaflets and resources – HERE

Find links to ICON practitioner resources below:

Find links to ICON case studies below: