The audit workshop focuses on the type of audit required to assess care against the Baby Friendly Initiative standards, and how this can be carried out and interpreted.
Background knowledge and practical skills
The Audit Workshop has been designed to help infant feeding advisors and other key workers to audit the care their facility provides for breastfeeding mothers and babies against the Baby Friendly Initiative standards. All aspects of the auditing process are considered and the audit tool developed by the Baby Friendly Initiative is used as an example to enable participants to explore issues of questionnaire design, sampling, interviewing, scoring, presentation and interpretation of results, and action planning to improve care and maintain progress. Participants will have lots of opportunity to practice using the Baby Friendly audit tool throughout the day.
Mastery of the use of the audit tool by key staff members will enable health-care providers to audit the care they provide, identify training needs, evaluate interventions and monitor progress.
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Who is this course for?
Participants at the audit workshops are expected to have attended the three-day course in Breastfeeding Management (and provide a certificate of attendance), have a good understanding of how to provide effective care and support for breastfeeding mothers, but are not expected to have significant experience of audit.
In-house courses
This is the most economical way of accessing this course. Training is provided on the trust's own premises for up to 16 staff. The 2012 price is £3,900. To discuss holding the course for your staff, please call the Baby Friendly Initiative on 020 7375 6052 or e-mail us at bfi@unicef.org.uk.
Open courses
These are open to anyone and are held at central locations (see the booking form for details). An individual place costs £260 (2012 prices). For enquiries, please call our Helpdesk on 0844 801 2414.
Please note that our services are usually booked up several months in advance and your first preferred date may not always be available.
