However, as the heads of four leading charities in the family supportsector, our concern is that unless proper support is made available toall parents when they actually need it, families will continue to beleft adrift until difficulties reach crisis point.
We believe an appropriately skilled and supported workforce is essentialfor the delivery of quality services to support parents.
There is a potentially huge workforce, including teachers, socialworkers, health visitors and midwives as well as volunteers and staffwithin the voluntary sector.
Unless we build the skills of this workforce, universal parentingsupport will never exist.
However, at a time when the role of peri-natal support services iscrucial, we are alarmed that health visitor numbers are low and fundingfor their training is negligible.
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