Safer sleep for babies in temporary and emergency accommodation

This on-demand course is designed for professionals working with families living in temporary and emergency accommodation. It provides clear, evidence-based guidance to help staff understand infant sleep risks and confidently support safer sleep practices in challenging housing environments.

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Training overview

This training is designed for professionals working with families living in temporary and emergency accommodation. This will deepen your understanding of infant mortality and safer sleep risks related to temporary and emergency accommodation. The course will provide practical ways to support families to create safer sleep spaces and help you to have sensitive, supportive conversations with families about safer sleep.

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.

Cost per person: £30

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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.
  • Identify safer sleep risks for babies in temporary accommodation.
  • Support families with realistic, practical safer sleep advice.
  • Apply safer sleep guidance within their role, whether allocating accommodation or working directly with families.
  • Contribute to reducing avoidable risks for babies and young children in vulnerable circumstances.
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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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