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"Unite and Netmums to provide parenting support" - Were Mumsnet asked ?

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Gameboy · 07/03/2008 16:36

Just saw this:
"The Unite/Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association and mothers' social networking website Netmums have been given £500,000 by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to provide joint support to people with parenting problems.

A team of health visitors will help mothers who come online with problems such as postnatal depression, parenting and relationship issues, anxiety, self-harm, and alcohol abuse.

If the problems are too serious, the health visitors will offer one-to-one counselling on a "closed" area of a site and/or recommend that the women see a health professional in person."

I'm just being nosey really, but I wondered if Mumsnet was asked if it was interested in doing this?

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hecate · 07/03/2008 17:08

Don't forget the health visitor who said my husband must be violent because he was so calm.

oh - and when told my husband was from Kenya, proceeded to tell us all about her trips to India. PMSL!!

AND asked us if our having ds1 hair cut was "a cultural thing".
er no love, it was in his eyes.

Lulumama · 07/03/2008 17:05

well, based on the HV who missed my PND and the ones you read about on here , whose first response to a breast feeding issue is to tell a mother to offer formula, i reckon it was a lucky escape!

although £500 000 would have been nice ... we could have had breastfeeding counsellors and everyhitng..

fishie · 07/03/2008 17:03

it must be more dept of health grants, like the breastfeeding support one which was announced a couple of weeks ago. they're all following the 'every child matters' outlines (with which i am not familiar).

i shouldn't think netmums will be getting anything like 1/3rd of it, they are merely hosting and providing access to target group, not actually delivering the service. also this £500k may be over 3 years.

hecate · 07/03/2008 16:55

nah, don't fix up the shed. Don't want Tech getting ideas above his station.

PrettyCandles · 07/03/2008 16:54

OTOH, considering the slating HVs tend to get here on MN, do we really think they can do a better job of advising than we can?

sparkybabe · 07/03/2008 16:52

I didn't realise there really was a NetMums! I bet none of it comes off tho, esp if it means spending mooney.

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Gameboy · 07/03/2008 16:50

Yes - soudns like a lot of ££, but it will include some costs of employing HVs etc I suspect and setting up extra parts of the site if they have a 'closed' area.

Still a bit for you though....

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JustineMumsnet · 07/03/2008 16:44

Wow - that's a lot of dosh to do something they (and we) are already doing innit?

Erm no we didn't ask - you have to apply for government grants generally and we didn't know anything about it, so we didn't. Not sure whether we would have done so tbh if we'd known about it - we might have had to be very earnest or something...

Do feel really poor now though - just think of the improvements to the shed we could have made!

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