Welcome to Cardiff Flying Start
Providing extra help to get children off to the best start in life.
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Providing extra help to get children off to the best start in life.
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Do you have a child aged 0 – 3 years 11 months and live in Cardiff?
If so please enter your postcode to see if you’re eligible for Cardiff Flying Start.
Find out what we do and the services we provide at Flying Start.
The Flying Start Health Service aims to support you with parenting and to provide you with any help and advice which you might need, from the ante natal period through to 3 years and 11 months.
Help and support can be provided on a range of issues which may affect you and your family. These include caring for your new baby, feeding, weaning, sleep routines, potty training and behaviour issues. We can also sign post you or refer you to other agencies within and outside Flying Start if required.
The Cardiff Flying Start Health team includes
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Congratulations on becoming a parent!
At Cardiff Flying Start we value parents, carers and wider families as the first and most important educators of children. This is central to all of the services we provide.
Flying Start Parenting and Cardiff Parenting 0-18 are both part of Cardiff Parenting Services. Being a parent can bring joy and happiness as well as challenges, at times. The aim of Cardiff Parenting Services is to work in partnership with families living in Cardiff to improve parenting confidence and skills, strengthen relationships and nurture wellbeing and resilience.
We can work with you both individually or in group sessions to provide parenting support that:
In Cardiff Flying Start, our Parenting teams deliver a variety of services for families, that parents and children can enjoy together or that parents can attend while children are cared for in our crèche. We also provide services for individual parents in the home. We currently offer:
Through parenting positively and building meaningful relationships, parents can help raise healthy children, develop a more calm and peaceful household, with fewer arguments and conflicts. Research tells us that children who grow up with positive parenting are more likely to:
If you are interested in our Parenting Service but are not eligible in Flying Start, please go to our site Cardiff Parenting.
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The provision of high quality childcare for children from 2-3years old is the centre piece of the services to be provided under the Flying start initiative. Childcare is provided in a variety of settings across Cardiff and the Childcare Advisory Team work closely with all settings to support, develop and monitor quality practice.
Supporting children’s language and communication development is a core aim of the Flying Start project.
The importance of targeting and identifying children who are having difficulties as early as possible is well evidenced. As is research into brain development which has shown that the first three years of a child’s life are crucial to the development of good language & communication skills.
In Flying Start areas children who might be having speech and/or language difficulties are identified as soon as possible in order that the team can provide the most appropriate support as early as possible.
Visit our partner websites for further information on the services for Cardiff Families.