News & Updates

Free part time early education
for all three and four year olds

All three and four year olds are entitled to a free part time early education place. This means your child will
be eligible for five two and a half hour sessions of free early education a week for 38 weeks a year.
The part-time, free early education places are available :
• in school nursery classes
• in state and private nursery schools
• in day nurseries like the one in our new children's centre
• in playgroups and pre-schools with accredited childminders
who are part of a quality assured network
For information on how to access your child's free early education place, including when your child will become eligible and the options available to you, please contact Children's Information Service (CIS) on 024 7683 4373
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SMOKING CESSATION CLINICS

If you want to give up smoking, please come along to SureStart Foleshill onTuesdays between 3pm and 4pm for our smoking cessation drop in clinic. We have teamed up with the Coventry Smoking Cessation Team to offer a service to local residents.
Mohammed Patel, Smoking Cessation Specialist says “We aim to offer smoking cessation clinics locally so residents can easily access our services. Since January 2006 over 100 local people from Foleshill have accessed smoking cessation services”
Coventry Smoking Cessation Service is one of the
most successful smoking cessation services in the
country. Over 2400 people have quit smoking with
the team between April 2005 and March 2006.
“The local community can greatly benefit from the
smoking cessation programmes and we hope people
can encourage their friends and family to attend the
clinic.”575 Clients will need to attend the drop in clinic for five consecutive weekly sessions and they will also be provided with Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Patches*.
For further information please call SureStart
Foleshill on 024 76 785 575
The team also runs smoking cessation clinics during evenings and weekends at Health Promotion Services, Greyfriars Lane, Coventry. For further information please call the Coventry Smoking
Cessation team on 024 76 24 6093

*If you are entitled to free prescriptions
NRT patches will be provided free of charge.
If you are not entitled to free prescriptions there
will be a one off payment of £6.65 for a full eight
week course of NRT.

Payments can only be made by cheque or postal
order which should be made payable to:
Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust.
Clients must be aged 18 and over to receive
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Patches
 
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Can you contribute fifty pence?
Starting from November we will be asking for voluntary contributions in all of the Sure Start sessions. This is to support some of the costs we have from room hire and resources. We are recommending a contribution of 50p and hope that this will mean Sure Start Foleshill can carry on offering you and your family a wide variety of activitie and support.
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What do YOU Think about us?
We care what you think, if you have a comment about any of our sessions or events then ask a member of staff for an evaluation card.
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Freddie's
Photos


National Childminders Week was a huge success, thank you to everyone who attended and special thanks to the Urban Rangers.
 

Thank you to Freddie's minders who acted as
his body guard at the Foleshill festival.

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Things you should know about dummies

On your marks Birth-18 months
When your baby is born its important to keep the dummy clean. Always sterilise the dummy before giving it to your baby. Even when you’re out shopping or at the park, take a spare sterilised one with you. Chemists stock various types of travel containers to keep your spare dummy safe and clean.
Parents are also advised not to suck a dummy clean and then give it to your child, it could pass on germs
and viruses. Don’t give a dummy to a breastfeeding infant, there is growing evidence that the use
of dummies is associated with an infant stopping breastfeeding.

Get Set 12-18 months
Most children start to talk between 12-18 months. Have you ever tried to talk with a dummy in your mouth, then you know how hard it is to form words. With growing infants their teeth and muscles in the
mouth may not develop properly. Sounds may be
distorted making speech unclear.
Examples 1.Guck 2.Gegi 3.Gink 4.Gog
Answers 1.Duck 2.Teddy 3.Drink 4.Dog
between 12-18 months the dummie is best kept
for sleep time now.
 
Go! 18 months onwards
After 18 months it will be time to say bye bye to the dummy. As a substitute you could give thema toy or treat to ween them off, or throw it away, which might seem harsh, but better for the infant. Another solution would be to pretend with the child that you are giving it to Santa or the Easter Bunny. Children's play parks and farms have dummy ribbons where they could be
encouraged to leave it, or health clinics have dummy bins. Whatever method you
  
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