Inclusion Health in the Early Years

This QNI event brought together health professionals and others working in the housing support and homelessness sectors.

The panel discussions, presentations and delegate workshop focused on answering questions on how better support can be offered for new parents and babies at risk of poor health outcomes. Key themes included:

• Improving access to maternity services
• Parenting capacity
• Peer support
• Health education for new parents
• Neonatal health inequalities

Speakers and presentations:

• Opportunities to improve parenting capacity
  Ailsa Swarbrick, National Unit Director, Family Nurse Partnership
• Building Peer Support
  Hannah Yeomans, Project Manager, Derby Community Parent Programme, Ripplez CIC
• Health support/education for new parents – supporting young offender fathers
  Kate Bulman, Health Education Lead Nurse, Oakhill Secure Training Centre
• Better health care for vulnerable infants and babies
  Dr Kathryn Johnson, Consultant Neonatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
• Improving access to maternity services
  Yvonne Lefevre, Specialist Midwife for Vulnerable Women, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Additional resources:

• A Better Start, The Warwick Consortium Evaluation – Resources
• Father Figures – Brinsford Pilot Parenting Programme
• Invisible Walls Project, Parc Prison, Wales