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 Welcome to the Nottinghamshire Children's Centre Service newsletter, a new digital newsletter produced three times a year with information, news and events.
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Congratulations to the children starting nursery or school!
September is often a busy month for parents and carers with lots of children starting nursery or school for the first time. This can be an exciting but emotional time for children and their parents or carers. We've put together some top tips to help parents and carers cope, and shared some useful links below.
Four top tips:
- Give yourself plenty of time in the morning before dropping off to help you and your child adapt to new routines.
- Make plans and keep busy while your child is settling in.
- Do something you enjoy and “un-parenty.”
- Remind yourself that this is another parenting stage.
Our friends at BBC Bitesize have lots of great information, including a fun game for you and your child to play together called My First Day at School – give it a go!
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New financial support calculator
A new calculator has been launched by the UK Government to help find out what financial support you and your family could be eligible for.
Notts Help Yourself also has some useful information for you to find help in relation to finances.
Your local Children’s Centre Service team may also be able to help you find the right service for your need. Please contact them for more information.
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Start Talking Together
A fantastic resource called Start Talking Together has been developed to provide parents, carers, and practitioners with ideas to promote communication and language development with children.
Julie, who has a one-year-old son, said:
“It is really easy to use, and it gave me some good tips to support Harry’s language.”
Heather who works in a nursery said:
“I love the start talking together website. I tell lots of parents about it and find it useful in my work with children.”
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Children's Centre Service UNICEF Gold Award honour
We are proud to announce that our Children’s Centre Service was recently awarded the UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Award!
The award enables public services to better support families with feeding and forming a close and loving relationship with their baby.
In assessing the Children’s Centre Service for the award, Anne Woods, UNICEF Deputy Programme Director, praised the services on offer and the quality of evidence provided.
We are one of only two areas, where both the council’s Children’s Centre Service and the Healthcare Trust’s Community Healthy Families Service have received the Gold standard, making this award even more special.
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Councillor Tracey Taylor, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: "Meeting these standards has enabled our Children’s Centre Service workforce to support pregnant women to recognise the importance of early relationships for the health and wellbeing of their baby, to protect and support breastfeeding in all areas of the service, and to support parents to have a close and loving relationship with their baby."
Councillor Taylor is pictured with our Chairman, Councillor Roger Jackson, presenting the award to Louise Lester, who chairs Nottinghamshire’s Best Start Partnership and leads the council’s integrated children’s commissioning work.
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Do you have experience of breastfeeding and want to help others?
If you are passionate about breastfeeding and want to support other parents who are breastfeeding, why not consider becoming a children’s centre Breast Feeding Peer Support volunteer?
You will be given appropriate training and supported in your role.
In the videos below Sarah and Lauren, two of our current Breastfeeding Peer Supporters, explain their love of helping new mums. Click on the images to watch the videos via YouTube.
  If you are interested and want to find out more, please contact your local children’s centre.
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Dealing with a Feeling
 Aimed at: 2-5 year-olds
Duration: 6 sessions to be offered either weekly or fortnightly
Length of session: 1 ½ - 2 hours
Dealing with a Feeling is a programme that supports children’s emotional resilience to overcome adversity, through managing their emotions.
The building of resilience helps children deal with the here and now, but also develop skills and habits that will help them deal with challenges throughout their life.
With resilience comes the ability to learn therefore, school readiness can be improved.
Please contact your local Children’s Centre Service team to see if Dealing with a Feeling is suitable for your child.
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Our activities and services
 Your local Children’s Centre Service team offers a lot more than 'stay and play' and 'under 1s'.
The Children’s Centre Service website now gives lots more information about other services we can offer, such as new parents groups, baby massage, family food & fun, weaning groups and much more.
If you want to see if one of our services would be suitable for you and your child/children, then please contact your local Children’s Centre Service team.
Our teams are more than happy to advise on which services might benefit you and your child or children.
Alternatively, you can complete a request for service form.
Find all the information you need on our website:
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PEEP - coming soon
PEEP is an evidenced based early intervention programme that values and extends what parents and carers already do to support their child’s learning in everyday life.
Children's Centre Service teams across Nottinghamshire will soon be offering the following sessions:
- Ante-Natal PEEP for Parents-to-be
- Baby PEEP for babies under 1 year old
- Toddler PEEP for children aged 1-2 years.
Contact you local Children’s Centre Service team for further information.
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Did you enjoy this newsletter?
We will be producing it three times a year - June, September and December. Please look out for the next issue in your inbox.
If you are interested in any of the services mentioned in this newsletter, further information can be found on our website or by contacting your local Nottinghamshire Children’s Centre Service team.
You can access the Children's Centre Service by phone, email, complete a request for service form or just walk in to one of our buildings. Find out more on our website.
If you have any suggestions for content of our future newsletter, please email us at NewsLetter.Children'sCentreService@nottscc.gov.uk
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