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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?

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!

JustineMumsnet · 07/03/2008 17:13

ahem - the UK's largest social networking site for mothers - not according to independent stats!

goodness me i'm shocked now!

JustineMumsnet · 07/03/2008 17:14

We have 400 000 monthly visitors and according to Hitwise Netmums has considerably less .

JustineMumsnet · 07/03/2008 17:41

Thanks mcnoodle - that's exactly what we need to hear. And besides there's nothing wrong with the shed that a lick of paint won't fix...

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