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Free parenting and sleep groups from September 2025

There a still places available:

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 The Parenting Team will be delivering free Understanding Your Child and Understanding Your Child SEND – from toddler to teens – groups from September/October 2025 (poster attached).

These 10 week groups aim to:

•             Promote understanding of children’s behaviour within the context of developmental issues

•             Promote the development of parent/child relationship

•             Increase confidence and self-esteem in both parents and children

•             Give parents a strategy for repair when things go wrong

•             Promote reflective, sensitive and effective parenting

We are also offering free SLEEP TIGHT groups from September 2025 (poster attached).

These 5 week workshops cover:

•             Recognising the role of sleep hygiene to improve sleep

•             Identifying causes of sleep issues and appropriate practical strategies to try

•             Completing sleep diaries and identifying potential sleep issues

Best Start in Life – PM Signed NEW – Shropshire Parenting Help & Support Line Sleep Tight Poster Autumn 2025 Understanding Your Child Poster ALL Autumn 2025