SIDS and safer sleep: Mother and Baby Units

This training is designed for professionals who work within Mother and Baby Units. It provides clear, evidence-based guidance to help improve knowledge and understanding around SIDS and help support parents with safer sleep practices within the setting of a Mother and Baby Unit.

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Training overview

This training is designed for professionals and practitioners who work within Mother and Baby Units, supporting families. This course will deepen your understanding of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and equip you with the tools to confidently share The Lullaby Trust’s evidence-based safer sleep guidance in your work.

The course features informative video presentations, supported by additional reading materials and publications to reinforce key learning points. You’ll gain a clear understanding of safer sleep advice to help support families in reducing known risks.

Within the training you’ll explore the fundamental messages around creating a safer sleep environment for babies and how these practices can help reduce the risk of sudden infant death. We will also build on this by discussing the wider risk factors that increase a baby’s risk of SIDS. This includes the effects of second-hand smoke, smoking during pregnancy, the importance of antenatal care, supporting breastfeeding, and immunisations.

Cost per person: £25

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Key skills

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the key messages for helping keep babies safer during sleep and reducing the risk of SIDS.
  • Identify and communicate the factors that increase a baby’s risk of SIDS.
  • Understand the evidence behind safer sleep advice, including topics such as second-hand smoke, co-sleeping, antenatal care, breastfeeding, and immunisation.
  • Confidently share safer sleep information with families as part of your professional role.
  • Access and use trusted resources and publications to support your conversations with families.
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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

    This course gave me the confidence to say 'this is how we should do it'.

    Early years worker
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    What professionals say about our training

    It has given me more awareness of SIDS which will help me to ensure that the sleeping enviroment of children is safe.

    Early years practitioner
  • An illustrated woman is leaning over the cot to where her baby is

    What professionals say about our training

    This training has enabled us to carry out safer sleep procedures to all babies and children, and be able to offer parents accurate and relevant guidance and information.

    Nursery nurse
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    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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