Browning House can deliver Child Protection Training that can improve the decision-making process through the NCAST Feeding and Teaching scales.  We offer individual places at our offices in Leeds, or alternatively we are flexible enough to deliver training at a time and venue to suit you.

Baby-Parent Interaction Training

Browning House employs the only full-time NCAST trainer and practitioner in the UK.  The benefits of Baby - Parent Interaction training include:

• Improve the decision-making process by assessing and assisting the child-parent/carer relationship
• Form a basis for intervention and care-planning that is highly sensitive and measures change
• Provide a strong evidential base that can be used in Court

Who is it for?

•  All professionals with a role in the decision-making process
• Front line staff that have direct involvement with children and parents/carers e.g. Health Visitors, Family Nurse Partnership, Children's Social Care (Local Authorities), Voluntary/ Independent sector, Residential Assessment units and Mother & Baby units. 

Features

• Uniquely focuses on the interaction between babies (and very young children) an their parent/carer
• Parents/carers are given the opportunity to understand their child's communications
• Baby - Parent Interaction can identify positive areas of social, emotional and cognitive development to build on; the Teaching and Feeding scales are so sensitive that they can identify the smallest of changes
• Assesses both aspects of the child-parent/carer relationship in their interaction
• Evidence-based standardised tool provides a systematic means of assessing interactions
• Both Feeding and Teaching scales are suitable for older children if they have experienced delay in development
• Post-training support (telephone and e-mail) is available. 

Aim of the training

• To gain an understanding of the child and parent/carer interactions during feeding and teaching situations
• To gain 85% reliability when using the Feeding and Teaching scales. 

Learning objectives

• Understanding of child's cues and responsiveness to parent/carer
• Opportunities to teach parent/carer to promote child's development
• Assess a parents/carer's sensitivity and responsiveness to child. 

Feeding and Teaching assessment tools are uniquely placed to assess interactions between very young children and their parent/carer.  Training provides participants with the knowledge and skills to reliably observe and offer feedback/intervention to parents/carers.

For more information about the NCAST Child Protection Training please contact Moira Read on 0113 262 1110 or 077 607 707 38, or alternatively e-mail her at mread@browninghouse.org.uk.