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Infant feeding support is offered by all members of the Health Visiting team at the new birth visit and any follow up contacts at home or in the child health clinic. Health Visitors, community nurses and nursery nurses undertake the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Breastfeeding training and can provide mothers and families with information and practical support to help you achieve your feeding goals.
Our services are aligned with the UNICEF credible, worldwide UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative.
We aim to provide sensitive and effective care, enabling mothers to make an informed choice about feeding, get breastfeeding off to a good start and overcome any challenges.
We provide support and information to parents who are formula feeding their babies, this includes helping them to feed safely and responsively.
Find out more about our local infant feeding service offer here.
Pregnancy and the period after childbirth are significant times of change in a person’s life. It is common for women and their partners to experience many different emotions during this time.
Health Visitors will be asking about your mental health at every contact. If you are struggling with your mental health then your health visitor can offer you additional appointments to support you with this. These are called listening visits and they are an opportunity for you to express how you are feeling without judgement.
If you require further support then your health visitor can advise you about additional services and refer you to them. In some cases, your health visitor may also suggest a referral to the specialist perinatal mental health team. If you wish, your health visitor can work together with these other teams to provide you with effective, coordinated care.
You can access our New Baby, New Feelings resources for your local area here
To find out about local support for children and families, including impartial information and advice on facilities for children and young people aged up to 19 on the Kensington and Chelsea Family Information Service (FIS). Information is up to 25 years for those with additional needs.
This local borough website provides information on topics including:
- Childcare
- Support for parents and carers
- Your SEND local offer
- Fostering and adopting
- Keeping children safe
- School admissions
You can find out how to apply for primary and secondary school places in Kensington and Chelsea on the Family Information Service website here.
To apply for a school place go to the eAdmissions website.
A Local Offer gives children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities, and their family’s information about what support services the local authority think will be available in their local area.
Children’s centre are places where families with children under 5 years can go to meet other parents and carers in their community.
Each children’s centre is slightly different but you will often find groups and activities, midwife and health visiting appointments, baby clinics, infant feeding support and parenting courses.
Children’s centres are welcoming places where you can go if you need some extra support. They are experts in helping you find the support you need.
Learn about local specialist services in your area at the CLCH and Kensington and Chelsea websites.
Our CLCH Occupational Therapy service for children and young people works in partnership with you, supporting children and young people to participate in what they need and want to do.
The RBKC Children with Disabilities team provides occupational therapy support to children and young people with disabilities in their home environment through the Children’s Social care Occupational Therapy Service.
Our children’s Dietetics service specialises in children’s nutrition providing support for children with food allergy and intolerance, complex obesity, dysphagia, enteral feeding, gastroenterology, faltering growth and malnutrition, restricted diets, special needs, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Our orthoptics service delivers a paediatric eye service (screening, diagnosis and treatment of eye problems within the community settings). The service aims to prevent the occurrence of visually impairing disease through effective screening and treatment. For more information please visit our web pages.
Our children's Speech and Language Therapy teams assess, diagnose, and provide therapy for children and young people with speech, language, communication and/or swallowing problems to help them communicate to the best of their ability.
We work in partnership with parents, nurseries, children’s centres and school staff to embed communication goals in a child’s everyday environment.
https://communicationhub.org/ is an online speech and language resource offering local information and advice to support speech development in children and young people.
The children’s Physiotherapy teams see children in local schools, their homes and nurseries. They specialise in the assessment and treatment of babies, children and young people.
- Chelsea and Westminster Physiotherapy service information can be found here.
Clinical Psychology, Woodfield Child Development Service
The clinical psychologists work alongside the paediatrician and other therapists in the team. This service is available to families with a GP in the North of Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. Clinical Psychologists can offer assessment, advice and support to families when children are having some difficulties, or showing some differences, in their learning, communication, socialising, sensory processing or behaviour. Most of our work focuses on the assessment of children’s social communication to understand whether a diagnosis of autism might be a helpful way of understanding a child’s strengths, difficulties, needs, communication and social style.
We also offer individual/family support, group support, or consultations with school/nursery staff and other professionals for a range of concerns (e.g. behaviour, sleep, feeding and toileting). To speak to a clinical psychologist on this team you will need to be referred to the child development service for assessment.
It is important that we all work together to keep children and young people safe from harm.
If you believe a child is at risk of immediate harm please call the Police on 999.
If you are worried that a child may be suffering, or may be at risk of harm you can refer to the Kensington and Chelsea social care team here.