FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02299
- Request Date
- March 23, 2018
- Subject
- Antenatal Education
- Description
- Do you provide antenatal education classes? – yes or no? If yes, what is the annual budget for this/these contracts/service provision?
- Answer only if you provide antenatal education classes:
- Do the practitioners delivering the classes use a specific evidence-based programme/s/model/s? – yes or no?
- If yes, which one/s and is it/are they licensed?
- If no, briefly describe the what programme is provided.
- Which senior manager/s is/are responsible for the provision of this/these service/s? What is/are their email address/s?
- Do the practitioners delivering the classes use a specific evidence-based programme/s/model/s? – yes or no?
- Answer only if you provide the antenatal education classes:
(a) Which organisation provides this/these services – your organisation? Or is/are the service(s) subcontracted out to an external provider? What are the contract start and end dates?
(b) Are the classes commissioned individually as a cost and volume contract or as part of a block contract? - Here is a list of vulnerabilities/adversities that can impact on the ability of parents-to-be to engage with antenatal education:
· those with mental health difficulties
· those experiencing social isolation or from a socially marginalised community
· survivors of domestic abuse
· those with learning difficulties
· those with substance use difficulties
· parents who have had previous children removed into care
· care leavers
· teenage parents
· parents in prison
· those not speaking English as a first language
· those with chaotic or transient lifestyles
· black or minority ethnic communities
· those with anti-social or offender behaviour
· asylum seekers
Much of this information is gathered by midwives at booking in appointments.- Do you, or have you in the past, carry/carried out any analysis of this data, or collected and analysed any data, to determine whether parents-to-be experiencing any of these difficulties are less likely to access/engage with antenatal education delivered in your area than those who do? -yes or no?
- Do any of the antenatal education classes specifically target vulnerable parents-to-be? -yes or no? If yes, which ones?
- Do you provide the Family Nurse Partnership(FNP)? – yes or no?
- If yes, what is the annual budget for this contract/service provision? What are the contract start and end dates?
- If you do not provide the Family Nurse Partnership, do you provide any other similar services that target vulnerable parents-to-be? Briefly describe the services.
- Response
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Provide antenatal education classes? Annual budget Yes This data is not readily available and would require a manual trawl through paper records which would constitute a disproportionate effort to retrieve and would exceed 18 hours. This information is therefore exempt on the grounds of cost (Section 12(1)). - :-
Use of specific evidence-based model/programme? Programme/s/model/s used Is it licenced? Name of senior manager Email address of senior manager NSPCC Baby Steps yes Gill Wildon Gill.wildon@bfwhospitals.nhs.uk Based on DH Preparation for birth and beyond document Bump Birth and Beyond DH – we don’t pay for a licence Shelley Piper Shelley.Piper@bfwhospitals.nhs.uk - :-
Programme/s/model used Name of provider organisation Contract start date Contract end date Cost and volume contract or part of block contract? Baby Steps BTH/A Better Start 1.4.18 31.3.19 Part of block contract BBB BTH/LCC 1.4.18 31.3.19 Part of block contract - :-
Analysis of data? Antenatal education for vulnerable parents-to-be? Not previously but as part of Better Start Programme there will be Baby steps – delivered universally in Blackpool due to number of vulnerable women - :-
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Provide FNP? Annual budget Contract start date Contract end date yes 01-04-2018 31-03-2019 - :-
Provide similar service? Brief description N/A
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