- Date awarded: June 2025
- Location: Dunfermline Health Visiting Team
Playgroups for babies and their parents and carers.
These groups are delivered by the Dunfermline Health Visiting Team in the Dunfermline area to provide parents and carers with opportunities to build positive relationships with their children and to promote positive play. The baby massage group is aimed at enhancing attachment and bonding.
To date over 500 people have benefitted from this initiative which has delivered the following key achievements,:-
- access to groups for vulnerable families
- direct support to families in need
- direct support to build up confidence and helping to overcome isolation issues
- addresses social isolation and interaction of ethnic groups
The clinical team are planning to work collaboratively with other agencies such as the Home Safety Team to deliver early intervention and education sessions along with focused activity themed sessions such as play.
Baby massage has a strong evidence base for supporting infant and maternal health, improving bonding and attachment between infant and caregiver in order to give children the best start in life
