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Practitioners manual

​This Northamptonshire Baby Room Project Facilitator’s Manual helps you train early years practitioners and other professionals working with infants to run the Northamptonshire Baby Room Project.

We are confident that The Northamptonshire Baby Room Project can increase people’s knowledge base, and excite and inspire people to think again about how they work with babies; the very youngest children entrusted to their care.

Content of the Practitioners manual

The manual includes:

  • wonderful pictures
  • quotes
  • course plans
  • background information
  • top tips
  • references and a resources disc containing all PowerPoint presentations and additional materials

You will need to purchase recommended DVDs and books separately from a direct source.

Audience

The Northamptonshire Baby Room Project audience includes:

  • early years practitioners
  • educational psychologists
  • social workers
  • advisers
  • family support workers who may work in nurseries, crèches, Children’s Centres or visit babies in their home

We invite you to use this facilitator’s manual imaginatively as a way of inspiring everyone working and living with babies.

We encourage you to experiment with the materials adding your own creative twists and quirks.

Cost of a manual

A copy is £50 plus postage and packaging.

This manual is currently unavailable, please contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Parents manual

Fun and creative, the parent's course has been designed so that it can be used with small groups of parents with young babies looking at how simple activities, showing how playing and interacting with babies is good for everyone’s brains.

We are confident that The Northamptonshire Baby Room Project for parents can increase parents’ knowledge, and excite and inspire them to reflect on how they relate to their baby. Understanding that what their baby wants is their love and being with them.

Content of the Parent's manual

The Northamptonshire Baby Room Project Parents Course Facilitator’s Manual includes:

  • wonderful pictures
  • quotes
  • course plans
  • background information
  • top tips
  • references and a resources disc containing all flipchart presentations and additional materials

You will need to purchase recommended DVDs and books separately from a direct source.

The resources disc provides:

  • facilitator notes
  • flip chart presentations
  • additional materials to run the 3 sessions of the Northamptonshire Baby Room Project with parents who want to understand more about their babies and the simple, fun things they can do together

Cost of a manual

A copy is £50 plus postage and packaging.

This manual is currently unavailable, please contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Last updated 20 April 2023