Parenting

Support for parents

What is the Birmingham Forward Steps (BFS) offer?

Family Hubs offer advice and strategies to support parent and carers with parenting this can be 1 to 1 or group programmes, for example:

• Promoting Happier Parenting,
• Togetherness (Solihull Approach),
• Approachable Parenting,
• Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC),
• Family Foundations.

These are delivered in partnership with trained Children's Centre staff and partner agencies in Family Hubs and community venues.

 

Available parenting and carer groups 

 

 

Resources

General Parenting

Best Start in Life

Best Start in Life: advice and support for your child's development. From pregnancy to childcare right through to starting school.

 

 

Sleep support

Cerebra	Cerebra sleep advice service: sleep@cerebra.org.uk
The Sleep Charity	The Sleep Charity provides advice, information and support for those living with sleep issues.

 

BFS 'who's in charge?' (safer sleep) campaign

Keeping your baby safe during their sleep is very important. The 'Who's In Charge?' campaign urges parents to be aware that they are putting their children at risk when they drink alcohol at home. It asks asks adults consuming alcohol at home while responsible for children a simple, but potentially life-saving, question - 'when you drink, who's in charge?' It urges parents, and others with responsibility for children, to be aware of a range of potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol while caring for children.

 

• Staying in to drink? Who's in charge? (video)

• Been out for a drink? Who's in charge? (video)

 

Wider advice about safer sleep for babies

The Lullaby Trust

The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome and provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies. Safer sleep for babies (video): to be used when communicating with families with low literacy levels or who do not speak English.  Further video resources from The Lullaby Trust.

 

 

LGBTQ+ parenting

Birmingham LGBT	Birmingham LGBT: raising awareness of the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people in Birmingham and beyond, advocating for their needs to the wider community and to promoting opportunities to LGBT people in Birmingham
African Rainbow Family (ARF)	African Rainbow Family (ARF) is a non-for-profit charitable organisation that support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersexual and queer (LGBTIQ) people of African heritage and the wider Black Asian Minority Ethnic groups.
Rethink Mental Health	LGBTQ+ people are at a greater risk of poor mental health and wellbeing. Rethink Mental Health offer information for LGBTQ+ people, and anyone interested in LGBTQ+ people mental health.
Umbrella	Umbrella Health delivers sexual health services for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people in partnership with Birmingham LGBT Centre.