Martha Sercombe

BREAKING: Wales to become FIRST Marmot nation 🙌
 
It’s great to be working with @michaelmarmot.bsky.social to adopt his eight principles to tackle health inequalities.
 
By adopting these principles, we’ll be able to support better health and wellbeing for us all.

www.gov.wales/wales-become...

Supporting Perinatal Mental Health Through the Power of Reading - IHV As part of Infant Mental Health Awareness week we are delighted to share this Voices Blog from The Reading Agency about a new reading list for families. Supporting Perinatal Mental Health Through the ...

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Today we've launched new research which shows a growing number of parent-infant relationship teams across the UK. But in many areas, specialist support is still not available.

Find out more & help us ask #Whoisholdingthebaby?’ this #IMHAW2025 👉bit.ly/43ys30y

It’s Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. With 1 in 10 babies living in fear, confusion
and distress, it has never been more important to ask the question ‘Who is holding the
baby?’
Get involved and find out more bit.ly/4mC14bY
#IMHAW2025
#Whoisholdingthebaby

Good luck Karen! We’ll be rooting* for you

Please do support Karen if you can. All money raised is being doubled by a matched funder.

(* niche pun for those who know babies 😎)

New report from @CentreforMH and @nhsconfed’s Mental Health Network highlights six key areas of mental health where investment could boost mental health and represent good value for money: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications...
#InvestInMentalHealth #HealthVisiting

Understanding starts with awareness. Download the MMHA's Perinatal Mental Health Symptom Checker.

Introducing the Perinatal Mental Health Symptom Checker, a tool developed with women with lived experience and clinical experts to help parents - and those around them - recognise the signs of perinatal mental illnesses. 💜

Please download and share: maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/parents #MMHAW25

Support Midwives and their colleagues going the extra mile for Mental Health this Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week | Cefnogi Bydwragedd a’u cydweithwyr i fynd gam ymhellach dros Iechyd Meddwl yn ... Help Midwives go Miles for Mental Health raise money to support Maternal Mental Health Alliance

www.justgiving.com/page/midwive...

We're delighted to announce we've been awarded more than £1 million from The National Lottery Community Fund to create a new National Parent-Infant Relationship (PAIR) Framework!
Working with delivery partners Ideas Alliance & Anna Freud, we can't wait to get started!
Details👉 bit.ly/4jF3G75

iHV is delighted to celebrate the launch of the Wales Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Delivery Plan. Published yesterday, the 10-year plan outlines ambitions to ensure people in #Wales live in communities that promote and support #MentalHealth and #wellbeing
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Mental health and wellbeing strategy: strategy and delivery plan | GOV.WALES What we are doing to improve mental health and wellbeing in Wales.

Well here it is, great to see a focus on improving support of the F1000 days in a baby’s life including support for parent-infant relationships 🙌

www.gov.wales/mental-healt...

iHV Research Networking Event - IHV Join us at our next iHV Research Networking event on 2 April. Louisa Clifford-Taylor, iHV Health Visitor Research Associate, will be sharing her PhD research ‘Inhabiting the Liminal Space: Exploring…

#iHVMembers - join us at our next iHV Research Networking event on 2 April, 9:30-11:30am. Louisa Clifford-Taylor, iHV Health Visitor Research Associate, will be sharing her PhD research - find out more and book your place here:

It is great to see our Feasibility and Acceptability study of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) published in BMJ Paediatrics Open
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The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry on the first 1000 days of life, the period from a child’s conception to age 2 – widely recognised as a critical period for development which fundamentally shapes long-term health, well-being, & life outcomes.
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A wheel describing key features of parent-infant positive relationships

It can be tricky to assess parent-infant relationships without resorting to checklists, or risking them feeling bad about themselves or their baby

We're working on developing a strengths-based, infant voice centred self assessment - here's progress so far, comments very welcome!

@karenjbateson.bsky.social @sjthv.bsky.social

We're hiring! Are you a passionate communicator, have experience of public sector procurement & an understanding of community services & development work? Apply by 30 March for this exciting, newly created role as Head of Service for a new Hope and Healing project.

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Training and Curriculum Development in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health - PubMed Infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) is an important field within psychiatry and related disciplines. Historically, IECMH has been absent from mental health training and curricula. However...

We desperately need to develop infant & early childhood mental health curricula in all health and social care professional trainings. This new article from the University of Washington provides an example. But with NHSE going, who is going to do it now?

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40044273/

So excited to see this launched, amazing work by a great team 🙌
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Recommendations please.

I’m looking for something to read about why teenage rebellions went out of fashion. What societal changes mean teens are getting sad more than mad? Somebody must have written about this.

@profatarrant.bsky.social

Great to be a part of this alongside some incredible colleagues in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & across the UK www.brazelton.co.uk/champions/

Sparking Joy - Creating environments for young people to thrive | F&LI Foundation A review of the evidence-base and need to create the conditions for young people to spark joy and thrive.

We are delighted to contribute to Ferdinando & Luigi Innocenti Foundation's ambitious vision through our report Sparking Joy: Creating thriving environments for young people to thrive, written by Dr Jen Daffin fli.foundation/news/sparkin...

Exclusive: Nearly 50,000 babies referred to social services every year due to domestic abuse Freedom of Information requests showed that an estimated 48,067 babies, aged 0-2, were subject to referrals to children’s services in England due to specific fears over domestic abuse.

A reminder that every baby is harmed when there is domestic abuse, either directly (physically/ emotionally by the perpetrator) or indirectly by the family stress, dynamics and other impacts such as poorer parental mental health.

www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world

As we watch political-systems earthquakes, it is useful to be reminded that the capacities for democracy are instilled in childhood. The sense of emotional 'securefulness' embedded in young childrn's stress systems shapes everything that follows, including voting. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Shaping Us Framework - CFEC

This new framework from The Royal Foundation, Centre for Early Childhood is excellent. Social & Emotional skills that develop in early childhood play such an important part in our health across the lifespan. 👀 👇
centreforearlychildhood.org/our-work/res...

We at CTMUHB are very excited to be part of this next phase of the ADBB study. 🙌

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Young Person’s Senior Participation Lead for Wales to join our team and be part of our journey! Apply by 29 Jan online (http://platfform.org - search 'Current Opportunities') or email peopleteam@platfform.org for a detailed job spec.

Fantastic opportunity 👇

Read our @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social
response to this important research from the team at UCL NIHR Children’s Policy Research Unit on what parents and professionals want from child development reviews 👶🏾👶🏼👶🏿- spoiler alert🚨- pretty much the same things👇