When you come and stay with us, you will be allocated a Veritas Assessing Social Worker who will work closely with the family’s allocated Family Practitioner (your ‘key person’), enabling our Parenting Programme and the CUBAS Parenting Assessment to run together at the same time, this provides a much better, robust, and fairer approach to the assessment, which will show us the extra support that you may need after the parenting assessment has finished and if you are willing to learn, accept support and show you can and want to do better.
We help you to develop through key working sessions, role modelling, side by side mentoring, using pictures and films, setting routines, using repetition and we will always check you understand.
Over the 12 weeks we will look at:
- Attachment and bonding, providing love and emotional warmth.
- Safe Sleep (SIDS)
- Stimulation through play and interaction.
- Behaviour management/setting boundaries.
- A knowledge of child development.
- Basic care skills.
- Self-care.
- Safety, keeping their child safe from harm.
- Health and Hygiene.
- Negative relationships, domestic abuse & coercive control.
- Awareness of exploitation.
- Substance alcohol abuse.
As part of the Veritas parenting program, we also look at the following needs of both the child and their parent:
- Considering the child’s needs
- Emotional, physical, social, and developmental.
- Play and interaction.
- Routines
- Handling
- Basic hygiene, top n tail.
- Boundary setting.
- Speech and language development.
- Making up formulas for babies.
- Sterilizing bottles.
- Breast feeding/bottle feeding a baby.
- Spoon feeding a baby.
- General baby care development and stimulation.
- Bathing a baby.
- Changing nappies.
- Child protection.
- Recognising a sick baby.
- Common breastfeeding concerns.
- Common health problems for new parents.
We also focus on you the parent’s needs that might include:
- Protection and awareness of dangers to child and self.
- Mental health and emotional regulation
- Self-care
- Anger management.
- Domestic abuse.
- Exploitation, trafficking, FGM.
- Mental health
- Substance alcohol abuse.
- Radicalisation and extremism.
- Loss and bereavement