We Stand Together: More Resources To Support You

EiSMART is proud to recognise a network of organisations that share our vision to build a brighter future for high risk infants. If you are looking for niche or regional support, please Contact Us – we are happy to help!

  • Action Cerebral Palsy

    Action Cerebral Palsy is a national consortium of specialist charities working with children with cerebral palsies and their families.

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  • BBC Tiny Happy People

    Tiny Happy People helps you to develop your child’s communication skills with simple activities and play ideas.

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  • Best Beginning Baby Buddy app

    An interactive pregnancy and parenting app created to support parents, co-parents and caregivers, and to back up frontline practitioners’ work and communication. Baby Buddy provides trusted, evidence-based information and self-care tools, based on the latest research and is NHS-approved.

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  • Bliss

    Bliss offers a wide range of free services for the families of premature and sick babies including a new video call support service.

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  • Brazelton Centre UK

    The Brazelton Centre UK is a national charity dedicated to supporting healthy parent-baby relationships though promoting an understanding of newborn babies’ communication.

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  • British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM)

    BAPM improves standards of perinatal care by supporting all those involved in perinatal care to optimise their skills and knowledge, promote high quality, safe and innovative practice, encourage research, and speak out for the needs of babies and their families. They are a membership organisation representing over 1600 professionals that work in perinatal care.

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  • British Association of Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow Up (BANNFU)

    The British Association for Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-up (BANNFU) is a special interest group of BAPM. BANNFU is a multidisciplinary group which exists to improve the long term outcomes of all babies that have had neonatal care by disseminating best practice and improving care.

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  • Cerebral Palsy CYMRU

    We are a national centre of excellence for families in Wales with children who have Cerebral Palsy.

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  • Circle of Security International

    Circle of Security is an attachment based programme to enhance the relationship between caregivers and their children.

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  • Connected Lives

    Connected Lives is all about helping key relationships thrive. Using evidence-based programmes our trained facilitators provide a safe space for people to think about these connections through groups, courses, trainings and one off evening events.

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  • Developmental Neurology

    Research at the Institute of Developmental Neurology addresses mechanisms underlying typical and deviant neurological development from fetal life till early adulthood.

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  • EPICure

    The MRC funded EPICure studies are longitudinal cohort studies of babies born at extremely low gestational ages across the country in 1995 and in 2006. To date, follow up for the cohort has been through to 19 years and to 3 years for the 2006 cohort.

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  • European Academy of Childhood Disability

    The European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) is founded in 1989, and is an international not-for-profit association for anyone with a clinical and/or scientific interest in childhood-onset disabilities in Europe.

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  • Family and Infant Neurodevelopment Education

    FINE is the only programme that gives neonatal professionals of all disciplines opportunities to develop knowledge and skills in steps that can be paced to their career needs, whether that means orientation for beginners, developing competent practice or leadership.

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  • Leo's Neonatal

    Supporting families through premature and traumatic births, the neonatal unit and beyond.

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  • NICE guidelines for developmental follow up of preterm infants

    This guideline covers the developmental follow-up of babies, children and young people under 18 years who were born preterm (before 37+0 weeks of pregnancy). It explains the risk of different developmental problems and disorders, and specifies what extra assessments and support children born preterm might need during their growth and development.

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  • PACE

    PACE is a specialist charity that is committed to ensuring that children with neurodisabilities have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential in life and can take their place in the world.

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  • Parent Infant Foundation

    The Parent Infant Foundation support the growth and quality of specialised parent-infant relationship teams across the UK.

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  • Preterm Birth Information for Education Professionals

    Free resources to help support preterm born children at school

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  • Stoke Speaks Out

    Stoke Speaks Out is an initiative which was set up in 2004 to support children’s speech and language development in Stoke on Trent. It involves everyone who links with children in some way including parents, practitioners and the wider community.

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  • Support 4 NICU parents

    We came together with the common purpose of improving the level of psychosocial support provided to NICU parents – as well as improving training and support for those who provide care in NICUs.

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  • TEDEI (Training in Early detection for Early Intervention

    TEDEI (Training in Early Detection for Early Intervention) is an e-learning course for healthcare professionals working with infants. The course offers training on how to detect emerging movement difficulties in infants up to six months old.

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  • The Co-Lab

    We are a group of individuals and organisations committed to working together and sharing good practice and resources. We strive to improve the healthcare of children with medical complexity and their families and provide support and educational materials for the professionals looking after them.

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  • The Smallest Things

    The Smallest Things exists to provide understanding of the unique needs of families of premature babies.

    Going home from the hospital is far from the end of the journey through neonatal care. Many babies have longer-term needs and lots of parents struggle mentally, practically and financially following the trauma of NICU. We’re here for them.

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