Our Born into Care
project is a collaboration
between our supported care planning
teams, so statutory social work teams,
our Jig-So service, a service
that supports young families,
and our health board.
We were looking to support parents
in the first thousand days of their lives.
Filling in the gaps between midwifery
and Flying Start in Swansea.
And then over the years we've
developed into, moved into social services
and developed into a safeguarding team,
supporting
young or vulnerable parents
in the first thousand days of their lives.
It's given us a lot more confidence.
We've learned a lot and we’ve learned a lot
about being parents and about babies,
and I think without it,
I think we would’ve been a lot more lost
or second guessing ourselves.
It's got us out and about a lot more as well,
so we're interacting with
a lot more people,
where we would
have been stuck in the house.
Still struggling with our anxiety.
So it's really helped with our mental health as well, hasn’t it?
The support was amazing.
Even now, when she's 18 months old,
and they're still there
for when I need them.
Me and my family are happy,
my little family.
And I'm at a really good part of my life
and that's because of the project.