A unique collaboration between The City of Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS) and Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust
Working together for parents and infants
Now in Year 2, the Parent-Infant Partnership is working across Edinburgh to support parents and babies experiencing adversity – and to improve our collective response to early parenting. PIP is a collaborative effort – we are trying to create clearer referral pathways, embed more reflective tools, work in closer ways and amplify the voice of the infant so we can create the best opportunities for parents and infants to stay safely together and to be safe, healthy and supported in those first 1000 daysof a new babies’ life, starting from conception.
Our PIP practitioners are trained in trauma-informed care, infant observation and working with relational risk. They work alongside social work, health and multi-agency teams to provide intensive support which also includes a range of evidence-led interventions:
Parents Under Pressure
Alarm Distress Baby Scale
Solihull Approach
Video Interaction Guidance
Seeking Support
Requests and referrals for support to our multi-agency Screening Group should be sent to parentinfantpathway@edinburgh.gov.uk
For initial queries or questions please call 07395 357 251
We are supported by the Whole Family Wellbeing Fundwhich is enabling local authority, health services and voluntary organisations to create a Scotland where more children will only know care, compassion and love, and not a ‘care system’.
