Useful Links
Cardiff Family Advice and Support
This service offers a range of information, advice and assistance for children, young people and their families in Cardiff. The Team can provide information and advice on a range of aspects of family life including: child behaviour, childcare, parental support, school attendance and employment, money and housing.
www.cardiffamilies.co.uk
Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Under 5s Advice Line
This advice line, set up by the CAVUHB Children’s Speech and Language Therapy team, can be used for tips on ways to help your child’s communication skills. The Speech and Language Therapist will be able to give helpful information about how talking develops and suggest activities which you can do to encourage play skills, understanding of language, using words and general communication.
Call 02921836585 to start communicating together.
Families First Advice Line
Information, advice and assistance for parents, carers and professionals in the Vale.
Contact us on: 0800 0327 322
Email: [email protected]
Cardiff Parenting
Cardiff Parenting 0-18 and Flying Start Parenting are both part of Cardiff Parenting
Services. Being a parent can bring joy and happiness as well as challenges, at times.
The aim of Cardiff Parenting Services is to work in partnership with families living
in Cardiff to improve parenting confidence and skills, strengthen relationships and
nurture wellbeing and resilience.
https://www.cardifffamilies.co.uk/cardiff-parenting-0-18/
Vale Parenting
Support families with children between 0-18 across the Vale of Glamorgan in order
to build on strengths and make positive changes, enabling parents to feel more
confident in managing; behaviour, routines and boundaries.
Contact Families First Advice line 0800 0327 322
Designed to Smile
Designed to Smile is a national programme to improve the oral health of children in
Wales funded by the Welsh Government.
https://www.designedtosmile.org/welcome-croeso/ welcome/
Every Child Wales
The Every Child Wales website was launched by Public Health Wales to help children
have a healthy and happy future. The website is designed for families and professionals
and contains free downloadable resources e.g. Introducing Solid Foods, a screen time
tracker and further information to help children have a healthy weight when they start
school.
http://www.everychildwales.nhs.uk
First Steps Nutrition
First Steps Nutrition Trust is an independent public health nutrition charity that
provides information and free downloadable resources to support eating well from
pre-conception to five years.
http://www.firststepsnutrition.org
Foodwise in Pregnancy
This is delivered in some areas of Wales as part of the Nutrition Skills for LifeTM
programme. This is an informal course for pregnant women and their partners about
eating well and healthy weight gain during pregnancy. Speak to your NYLO lead for
information on programmes in your area. You can also download the Foodwise in
Pregnancy APP which provides key information on being healthy during pregnancy.
https://nutritionskillsforlife.com/foodwise-in-pregnancy/
Get Cooking
This is an 8 week practical cookery course which promotes healthy eating messages.
Contact your NYLO leader if you would like to sign up or contact us on 029 2090 7699
https://nutritionskillsforlife.com/get-cooking-level-1/
Healthy Start
The Healthy Start Scheme is a UK wide means-tested scheme for families with young
children. Families on a low income or on certain benefits may be eligible to enrol.
Once registered, families get free vouchers every week to spend on plain milk, fresh
and frozen fruits and vegetables and first infant formula milk.
http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk
Keeping Me Well
A Cardiff and Vale University Health Board website offering a range of resources for the whole family. Information can be found on nutrition during pregnancy, healthy eating in children and recipes from Get Cooking.
https://keepingmewell.com/
Parenting. Give it time.
A Welsh Government initiative to support families to get the most out of family life.
This website gives parents ideas so they can make decisions about what can work for
their child and family and build a positive relationship with their child. The website
contains information around managing mealtimes and other ‘tricky moments’ as
children grow and develop.
https://www.giveittime.gov.wales
Vale Family Information Service
Free, trusted information on the services available for families in the Vale.
01446 704704
www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/fis
BBC Tiny Happy People
Tiny Happy People helps to develop your child’s communication and language skills. It provides families with fun activities to help their child’s communication and gives information around bonding with your child, emotional development and mealtimes.
Children’s language development and parenting advice – BBC Tiny Happy People
UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative
The Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) aims to support women and families with feeding and giving babies the best possible start in life. A key area of BFI is supporting women to start breastfeeding and continue for as long as they and their baby would like to. The UK initiative is part of global work between Unicef and the World Health Organisation.