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We are privileged to have Flying Start Health Visitor Louise based within the Woodlands building. Flying Start Health Visitors work with fewer families than other Health Visitors, therefore they will be able to offer eligible families much more support.
Each Health Visiting team has a Family Health Worker (Kelly) working with them who will support their work with eligible families. Health professionals will also be supporting the delivery of both home based and group
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sessions such as baby massage, baby rhyme time and post natal support.
Eating a well balanced diet from the beginning, forms the foundations of a healthy life. We know that children who eat well find it easier to concentrate, do better at school and are less likely to be ill. The team will be on hand to provide lots of information and activities about making food healthy and fun.
Louise and Kelly run a baby clinic in the main FCC building on a Monday afternoon and a midwife visits the Woodlands building. The team also facilitate baby massage, breast feeding support and developmental checks and immunisations on site. They are always here for support and guidance.
Parenting Programmes
 In addition to the support given by health visitors about parenting, and in order to support parents, Flying Start offers parenting programmes. The Parent Nurturing Programme is a course that encourages parents/carers to get the best out of family life. It offers parents many positive practical ways of guiding children so that they learn to handle both their feelings and their behaviour.
It is delivered by Health Visitors and Geraint, our Dad’s Officer, in a group of no more than 12 parents in Forest Children’s Centre. Parents do not need to be experiencing difficulties with parenting in order to get support.
Language and Play
The Language and Play (LAP) Programme is a series of six weekly sessions for parents and carers to play with their babies and/or young children. It focuses on developing childrens' language and literacy skills through stimulating play activities. Sessions are run in the Flying Start Woodlands building and are led by a LAP Senior Teaching Assistant.
Strongly linked to LAP is the Bookstart scheme. This is a national programme which provides free books to children at 8 months and 18 months of age along with information about local Library Services. By living in a Flying Start area children will also receive an additional book bag at 2 years of age. The message promoted by this scheme is... ‘it is never too early to share books with your child’.
For more information or to speak to one of the Health Visitors team call 01633 …………… |
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Forest Children's Centre
Partridge Way
Duffryn
Newport
NP10 8WP
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01633 816774 (telephone only)
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01633 816762 (fax only)
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