Links
Mapping organisations and charities
Government / policy influence & development
Early Years PIP UK
http://www.pipuk.org.uk
Focus on 0-2, policy influence on early prevention for this age group. Andrea Leadsom MP has established Parent Infant Projects (Oxford and Northampton and planned national roll-out supporting parent/baby bonding following e.g. post-natal depression, difficult births, etc.).
Early Intervention Foundation
www.earlyinterventionfoundation.org.uk
Consortium of children’s charities and local authorities brought together by Graham Allen MP – front-runner to run the DfE’s Early Intervention Board (set up to evaluate early intervention schemes and work out a rate of return on investment for different schemes).
Early Childhood Action
www.earlychildhoodaction.com
Early years education / curriculum – offers proposals on an alternative foundation phase.
Campaigning charities
NSPCC
www.nspcc.org.uk
Campaigning charity. Also providers of Childline and other helpline services, advice and other services. All babies count campaign.
Wave Trust
www.wavetrust.org
Charity campaigning to reduce root causes of violence including child abuse and neglect.
What About the Children (WATCH)
www.whataboutthechildren.org.uk :
National charity working since 1993 to promote better understanding by parents, professionals and policy makers of the importance of loving care in the first three years. Aim of charity is to provide a voice for babies and children 0-3.
Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk
Charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.
Marce Society
www.marcesociety.com
Charity that promotes facilitates and communicates research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth.
Best Beginning
www.bestbeginnings.org.uk
Charity working to improve the health of babies across the UK and break down inequalities in child health in the UK.
Shared learning / experience and professional associations
Early Education
www.early-education.org.uk
Special Interest Baby Room Group
www.early-education.org.uk/content/1360#overlay-context=membership/branches
Early Education charity established this group to support those working with the youngest children.
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
www.acamh.org.uk
Membership association for those working in child and adolescent mental health.
AIMH UK
www.aimh.org.uk
Organisation that promotes evidence-based practice, disseminates knowledge and provides information and support to those campaigning.
Organisation promoting public education and understanding of and research and study into the extent to which the earliest relationship play a role in shaping a baby's brain and in influencing future outcomes.
Research / consultancy
Begin before Birthwww.beginbeforebirth.org
A website put together by researchers from the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London. The aim is to give an objective view of what is generally known, but the site draws particularly on their own research.
Mindful Policy Group
www.mindfulpolicygroup.com
Organisation promoting research to help increase individual and communal psychological welfare and health, carry out consultancy and lobby to influence policy.
Suzanne Zeedyk
www.suzannezeedyk.com
Academic / research/ consultancy.
Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU)
www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/research/phe/wifwu
Led by Proessor Jane Barlow, the WIFWU is focused on identifying evidence-based ways of working with parents during pregnancy and the first two years of life. It offers training programmes and promotes innovation in the field of early intervention.
Service provision
London Early Years Foundation
www.leyf.org.uk
Charity providing nursery care that also carries out training and research.
