Understanding and Appreciating Baby Voice in Calderdale

Through movement, expression, connection and behaviour, babies are constantly sharing their experiences, needs and feelings with the adults around them. This session invites us to slow down, notice, and begin to truly hear the Baby Voice.

Understanding and Appreciating Baby Voice in Calderdale is an interactive and reflective session exploring how we recognise babies’ communication, understand their lived experience, and include their voice in the way we design services, support families, and work together as a community.

This session is part of ongoing work across Calderdale to strengthen parent-infant relationships and ensure that babies’ perspectives are considered in practice, services and community thinking. Professionals and parents have worked together to think about how to keep making things better for parents and babies in Calderdale. This work resulted in the development of a Boobie Bus Journey map. As the next stage, we are now including the babies' perspective, which we are keen to share and explore with you at this event.

What the session will explore

· What we mean by Baby Voice

· How babies communicate and express their experiences

· Seeing the world through a baby’s perspective

· Why recognising Baby Voice matters for families and professionals

· Practical ways to notice, reflect on and include Baby Voice in everyday practice

· Learning together through discussion, video examples and small group activities

Participants will engage in playful and thought-provoking exercises that help us imagine and understand life through a baby’s eyes.

This session welcomes:

· Parents and carers

· Health, education and early years professionals

· Community practitioners

· Anyone interested in infant wellbeing and early relationships

Babies are welcome to attend with parents and carers.

By the end of the session, participants will:

· Develop a deeper awareness of babies’ communication and experience

· Feel more confident talking about Baby Voice

· Gain ideas for integrating Baby Voice into practice, services and everyday interactions

· Be part of a growing Calderdale conversation about valuing babies as active participants in their world

Date: 17th of March
Time: 12:30 – 2:30pm
Cost: Free

This is the first of a series of sessions as Baby Voice thinking continues to develop locally.

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Host or Publisher Calderdale Family Hubs