Breastfeeding and relationship building course
Early Years, Family Hubs and Sure Start staff
The Breastfeeding and Relationship Building course for Early Years Services (including Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies services in England and Sure Start in Northern Ireland), enables participants to provide basic level support for breastfeeding and close and loving parent-infant relationships.
An understanding of how the Baby Friendly standards can facilitate the provision of compassionate, practical infant feeding and relationship building support to families in community settings will be considered.
Quotes from participants
“Very good course – could do with this for every staff member.”
“Trainers were compassionate, informative, interesting and fair. Great two days.”
“The course was very informative, I feel I am now more confident to help a woman who is struggling with breastfeeding, it covered a lot of information, had a good amount of breaks to make the course comfortable and I would highly recommend it to my colleagues”
Accessing the course
Courses are delivered on Microsoft Teams. To see the next available course dates and download a booking form, please visit the courses page.
- Part 1: E-learning & observing a breastfeed and
- Part 2: Two virtually taught days
As each part of the programme builds on previous content, it is very important for your overall learning experience that you complete all of the elements.
Open courses
To book, please visit our courses page which includes important information on technological requirements and course availability. For any queries, please contact the Baby Friendly office at [email protected]
Please note that our services are usually booked up several months in advance and your first preferred date may not always be available.