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

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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?

yes ios I remember your defection well

it worked out well for us because we got you!

You always had me MP, just I changed my username as it had netmums name as part of it

oh! I just remember the furore and how grim it was all round

ach, tbh if you miss them you should go and see them. i'm sure they'll all want it swept under the carpet and the ad is long gone now. don't let pride stop you from spending time with friends, if that's all it is.

We had a private online forum just for those running the sites and the password got changed the day after I posted something

wow that is like being marched off the premises!

Agree with Marina, mn is better off out of it. you want PARENTING advice from PARENTS, come here. You want nestle sponsored biassed the govt line, go to netmums.

And we all know that while there are some good hvs, many of them are shite, shockingly so.

lol at pitchforks, yes, let's have some on

biased hasn't got two ss has it? sorry.