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Thriving Babies: Confident Parents – IPC Report for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care published December 2022

What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care publishes IPC’s pilot evaluation of the Thriving Babies: Confident Parents programme working perinatally and intensively with vulnerable parents in Manchester to prevent the need for care.

IPC’s pilot evaluation report of the Thriving Babies: Confident Parents programme working perinatally and intensively with vulnerable parents in Manchester:

  • Describes in detail how the pilot programme ‘works’ and what it costs
  • Addresses how feasible it is to provide the programme
  • Explores the extent to which the programme has shown promise during its pilot stage, including in engaging high risk families and providing culturally attuned services and in securing key outcomes in particular:
  1. Secure child and parent attachments
  2. Confident parents
  3. Thriving babies
  4. Improved parenting capacity
  5. More infants able to remain safely at home
  6. Improved parent wellbeing
  7. Reduced risk factors for compromised parenting and increased resilience factors