Best Start for Life & Healthy Children Programme Birmingham

Best Start for Life & Healthy Children Programme

All families need support from time to time to help their babies and children thrive, whether that’s from friends, family, volunteers, or practitioners. Our ambition is for every family to receive the support they need, when they need it. All families should have access to the information and tools they need to care for and interact positively with their babies and children, and to look after their own wellbeing. In Birmingham we have signed up to deliver the ‘Best Start for Life’ strategy and part of this involves ensuring parents & carers have access to the best resources to support both them and their young people’s health and wellbeing. The Apps below have been commissioned in Birmingham to support new parents, new Dads and service staff with effective evidence-informed advice and guidance. We’ll be continually adding more resources to these pages so please bookmark this link and share the QR code with anyone you think might benefit.

Resources


Baby Buddy is an award-winning app full of trusted information for mums, dads, and caregivers during pregnancy, birth and the baby’s first year.
It’s free to use and will help you with every aspect of parenting from pregnancy to toddler.


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Developed with experts from the NHS and Dad’s themselves, Dad Pad gives new dads and dads-to-be the latest knowledge and practical skills necessary to support themselves and their partner, so that babies get the best possible start in life.


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With content in over 30 languages, Essential Parent is an expert-led digital library that supports parents & carers as well as professional health and social care staff with guidance through 0–19 years (or 25 with special educational needs and disabilities)


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50 Things to Do Before You’re 5 is a menu of fun, affordable ideas for play and learning with your 0-4  year old in Birmingham. Get daily inspiration from these simple and engaging activities that preschoolers will love!

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Birmingham City Council is excited to offer you free, premium access to EasyPeasy – an app full of parenting tips, advice and activities for you and your 0-5 year olds. With EasyPeasy, you can transform everyday family moments into playful and enriching connection experiences that will support your child’s development with materials you will already have access to at home.


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Perinatal Teams

East Perinatal Team (covering Sutton Coldfield, North and East Birmingham)

Team Manager – Rachel Bailey rachel.bailey9@nhs.net

Little Bromwich Centre

Hob Moor Road

Birmingham

B10 9JH

South Perinatal Team

Team Manager – Kerry Govier kerry.govier@nhs.net

Longbridge Health Centre

10 Park Way

Birmingham

B45 9PL

West Perinatal Team

Team Manager – Sarah Hayat sarah.hayat@nhs.net

Ashcroft

The Moorings

Birmingham

B18 5SD

Solihull Perinatal Team

Team Manager – Portia Nyamakanga portia.nyamakanga@nhs.net

Maple Leaf Centre

2 Maple Leaf Drive

Marston Green

Birmingham

B37 7JB

Solihull Perinatal Team

Team Manager – Portia Nyamakanga portia.nyamakanga@nhs.net

Maple Leaf Centre

2 Maple Leaf Drive

Marston Green

Birmingham

B37 7JB

The Mother and Baby Unit (MBU)

Ward Manager – Kavita Davis kavita.davis@nhs.net

Chamomile Suite

The Barberry

25 Vincent Drive

Birmingham

B15 2FG

Birmingham Family Hubs

Birmingham Family Hubs are part of a national programme to support families raising children across the city aimed at helping families from a child’s conception to age 19 and up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). There are ten Family Hub locations launching across Birmingham, where you will be able to go to get advice and practical support for you and your family. You can also find lots of help and support on the BCC-dedicated Family Hub web pages here: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50295/family_hubs
On these pages, you will find information, advice, and guidance about many of the different groups and networks that are ready to offer a helping hand or advice to support you and your family. There is help and support for infant feeding, being a parent, parent and infant mental health and early language and early education. We will update these pages as more information becomes available.

  • Hodge Hill - Dyson

    Highfield Road, Saltley, B8 3QF (0121) 752 1950

  • Ladywood - Soho

    Louise Road, B21 0RY (0121) 551 9020

  • Hall Green - St Pauls

    Malvern Street, B12 8NN (0121) 464 6349

  • Erdington - Lakeside

    Lakes Rd, B23 7UH (0121) 752 1970

  • Northfield - Frankley

    New Street, B45 0EU (0121) 453 3515

  • Yardley - Fox Hollies

    Fox Hollies Rd, B27 7QA (0121) 702 2700

  • Selly Oak - Chinnbrook

    Trittiford Rd, B13 0ET (0121) 464 4772

  • Edgbaston - Doddington

    Doddington Grove, B32 4EL (0121) 477 6440

  • Perry Barr - Lime Tree

    Heathfield Rd, B19 1HJ (0121) 752 1900

  • Sutton - Holland House in partnership with Our Place Support

    Holland Road, B72 1RE & Farthing Lane, B72 1RN (0121) 752 1860

Mental Health Support in Birmingham

It is important to look after your emotional and mental health, especially during stressful times such as pregnancy. Support is available from several organisations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

You can find out how to access adult mental health services in Birmingham.

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Birmingham Forward Steps (for children 0 to 5 years old)

Birmingham Forward Steps’ health visiting service supports mental and emotional health as part of their universal plus and universal partnership plus services.

Birmingham Mind

The Birmingham Mind helpline provides advice, information, and signposting to:

  • people with mental health issues
  • carers
  • professionals
  • the general public

Their staff help people access the support they need on issues such as health and social care, to enhance personal wellbeing.

To speak to someone, you can phone 0121 262 3555. The helpline is open every day from 9am to 11pm.

Birmingham Healthy Minds

Birmingham Healthy Minds offers mental health services to people across Birmingham, Solihull, and beyond. They provide specialist support on perinatal mental health at their mother and baby unit.

You can find out more about the perinatal services Birmingham Healthy Minds offers.

You can also find more information on this downloadable PDF.

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Forward Thinking Birmingham

Forward Thinking Birmingham is a mental health service that provides support, assessment, and intervention for people under 25 years old who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

Acacia

Acacia Acacia’s trained staff and volunteers provide many support services to help mums and families experiencing perinatal depression.

You can learn more about the programmes available from different locations around Birmingham.

Help from national organisations

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Tommy’s

Tommy’s has a tool that creates a wellbeing plan to help you look after yourself throughout and after your pregnancy.

Bethel Network

Bethan Network provides help and emotional support to vulnerable, isolated, and asylum-seeking women in Birmingham who are pregnant.

You can find out more about the services Bethel Network provides.

The Spearhead Trust

The Spearhead Trust is a voluntary organisation that addresses social issues within the community by engaging with families and those in need from different cultured backgrounds.

They have family support and befriending services that can support people during and after pregnancy.

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Post Natal Depression Awareness and Support (PANDAS)

PANDAS are available to offer hope, empathy, and support for every parent or family affected by perinatal mental illness.

They are a community offering peer-to-peer support for you, your family, and your network.

Better Health

Every mind matters is an initiative providing information on why it is important to be kind to yourself and how to make sure you are feeling your best.

The support ranges from physical activity to self-help cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques.

Action on Postpartum Psychosis

Action on Postpartum Psychosis is a peer support service that connects you with people who have been through it themselves.

They can support you if:

  • you have experienced postpartum psychosis (PP)
  • you have experienced high mood or mania after the birth of your child
  • you are a partner or family member of someone who has experienced PP

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Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle is a therapeutic service which supports birth parents who have lost a child or more to adoption.

To contact Breaking the Cycle, you can email BreakingtheCycle@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk.

Samaritans

Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to listen to anyone, whatever they are going through.

Widowed and Young (WAY)

WAY is a charity for people 50 years old and older who have lost their partner.

WAY’s website provides bereavement support resources.

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