Parents and carers say they have shared their own knowledge of activities and services with other parents or carers at Hackney Playbus sessions.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n“As a Healthy Families Practitioner working within the early years, mainly in Childrens Centres we are always looking for other ways to meet our target families. Having the Hackney Playbus available across the borough has given us that opportunity to sit and chat to families about our services and to inform them about Healthy Start vitamins and vouchers in a relaxed and safe environment. Since visiting the Playbus in three of their locations, I have successfully signed up parents to some of our Healthy Families workshops that are delivered in nearby Childrens centres. Many of these parents have never used the children\u2019s centre before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tina Le – Practitioner – Best Start with HENRY in the City & Hackney
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Parents and carers said that they feel they manage the pressures of parenting better than before<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nMy confidence in parenting is always bettered, I feel a sense of community and no isolation as a mother. Always greeted with a smile, I feel such warmth and familiar atmosphere at each session\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cThe staff are all brilliant, really encouraging and helpful. It feels more like a family than a formal group. It’ s very relaxed and welcoming, I can turn up at any time and not be turned away. I feel I can ask anything and not feel silly.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\n\n Feedback from Community Partners \n \n <\/h3>\n \n \n“I feel that the partnership that health visiting and the Playbus have been able to achieve has been really beneficial to the health visiting service and to the families with whom we have come into contact. It has enabled me to help families who are more socially isolated, as I can take them or agree to meet them there and then introduce them to the wonderful Playbus team who are so welcoming. Out of the 3 families that I have taken or agreed to meet there, all 3 are now regular attendees of the Playbus and think it is an invaluable resource.”<\/p>\n
Christopher Norton – Specialist HIA Health Visitor for Transition to Parenthood – Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\u201cI would like to thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to visit your services and meet with families. We really enjoyed talking to lots of parents on that week. I strongly appreciate it. Since I visited your services, I have been talking to all my colleagues and encouraging them to engage and access families via Playbus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dina Kakar, Breastfeeding Coordinator, Children’s Service, Diagnostics and Outpatients Division, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackneyplaybus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}