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 and Early Years Resources

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership has published the Somerset Pre-Birth and Early Years Resources, these have been produced collaboratively with practitioners from across the Partnership to help you to work with parents in the pre-birth period through to the early years.

> Access the Somerset Pre-birth and Early Years Resources 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 practitioner resources below:

Find links to ICON case studies below: