SIDS and safer sleep for babies training
This in-depth training is designed for professionals and practitioners who work closely with families and have a core responsibility for providing safer sleep advice.
Training overview
Baby sleep professionals can play an important role in supporting families at a time when they may be tired, overwhelmed and looking for practical solutions to help their baby sleep.
This specialist training from The Lullaby Trust will give you the knowledge and confidence to ensure the sleep advice you provide is consistent with evidence-based safer sleep advice and helps families reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Safer sleep knowledge for your practice
When supporting parents and carers with their baby’s sleep, it is essential that the strategies and advice you provide don’t inadvertently introduce additional risks and that you can talk to families sensitively and advise where care practices they are following might not follow safer sleep guidance.
This course has been developed with baby sleep professionals in mind. It explores the evidence behind The Lullaby Trust’s safer sleep advice and helps you understand how to apply it when working with families.
You’ll build your knowledge of SIDS and safer sleep and consider how to balance parents’ goals and circumstances with clear, practical and evidence-based safer sleep advice.
This course is suitable for:
- Professionals already providing infant sleep support to families
- Baby and infant sleep consultants
- Infant sleep coaches
- Paediatric sleep consultants
- Night nannies and maternity practitioners offering sleep advice or support
- Other professionals providing baby sleep advice to families
Cost per person: £40
Key skills
Our training is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and skills to promote safer sleep practices, including understanding risk factors, safer sleep environments, sleep positions and baby sleep products.
By completing this course, you’ll develop your understanding of:
Why take this course?
Families may turn to a baby sleep professional because they are struggling with their baby’s sleep and looking for practical support.
Having a strong understanding of safer sleep means you can confidently consider safety alongside the sleep strategies and recommendations you discuss with families.
By completing the training, you’ll be better equipped to:
• Recognise when a suggested sleep practice could increase risk
• Explain safer alternatives sensitively and practically
• Respond confidently to parents’ questions about safer sleep
• Provide advice that is consistent with The Lullaby Trust’s evidence-based recommendations
• Support families to make informed choices about their baby’s sleep
Please note: This course is intended for professionals who are currently providing sleep support to families. The course focuses on SIDS, safer sleep and the evidence underpinning safer sleep advice. It is not a qualification to become a sleep consultant and does not provide training in sleep consulting practice.
4098
professionals trained in our safer sleep advice last year.
98 %
of professionals said they can apply our training to their daily work.
95 %
believe The Lullaby Trust's training is of a high quality.
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What professionals say about our training
I've just completed your Safer Sleep Training for Early Years Professionals and can honestly say that it's been one of the most insightful, meaningful training courses I have ever participated in. It has changed my perspective completely and made me so much more aware of the risk factors so thank you!
Georgia -
It gave me an insight into a topic I have always been aware of but not always necessarily understood. It has given me a greater understanding of safe sleep and the ways I can help prevent unnecessary injuries, accidents and fatalities.
Georgia -
I would say as an early years professional, this training is essential! I would urge any parent, teacher or caregiver to utilise this resource and learn how to truly keep their children and those within their care safe
Georgia -
What professionals say about our training
It has cemented my knowledge of safe sleep, and I will improve the way I carry out the role when placing babies to sleep.
Nursery nurse
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