Tameside SCB

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Introduction:

Tameside Safeguarding Children Board has adopted the Safe Sleeping Guidance developed by Salford, Bolton and Ashton, Wigan and Leigh Safeguarding Children’s Boards.

Safe Sleeping is one of the most important pieces of advice that can be given to Parents to protect their babies from death and serious harm. This guidance is a multi-agency document which provides research based evidence from many long term studies of Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Infancy (SUDI). That some of the infant deaths associated with bed-sharing, co-sleeping and other risk factors could have been preventable if guidance on safe sleeping has been followed.

This guidance provides all practitioners who come into contact with families with babies to assess risks and advise on safe sleeping strategies. The document provides practical advice for practitioners and Tameside Safeguarding Children Board recommends the use of this document to all agencies.

Gill Gibson Designated Nurse Safeguarding NHS Tameside & Glossop.

Purpose of Guidelines:

The purpose of these guidelines is to enable staff  to give appropriate information and advice to parents to enable them to make an informed choice about safe sleeping arrangements for their babies and infants by: -

• Providing guidance to workers on what a safe sleeping environment for parents and babies looks like using current national and international evidence.
• Increasing workers’ knowledge and understanding of the risk factors and why they are risk factors.
• Increasing parent’s knowledge and understanding of the risks associated with intentional or unintentional co-sleeping and bed sharing.
• Promoting consistent information and advice to parents on co-sleeping and bed sharing with their infant across all organisations.
• Supporting workers in all organisations to contribute to promoting the message.
• Contributing to the successful implementation of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Baby Friendly Initiative.

Target Audience:

The guidance should be read and used by all workers providing support or services to mothers, fathers, the infant or wider family members who care for the child.  This includes all workers in either the statutory, voluntary, community or private sector.

The guidance not only gives practical information on what the key risk factors are and why, but also outlines what individual organisations and workers can do to promote this message.

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