Safer Sleep courses from the Lullaby Trust

Safer sleep advice saves babies lives. Reduce the risk of SIDS by giving evidence-based safer sleep advice in your practice.

We want safer sleeping to be everyone’s business in Cornwall and we’re asking all partners working with families to promote and reinforce safer sleep messages. This training is designed to support you to do this, by increasing your awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and the evidence-based safer sleep advice to reduce the risk of SIDS.

We pleased to be able to offer access to 3 e-learning opportunities. To access the course that is most appropriate for your role please complete this pre-course survey. Once you have completed and submitted the survey we will send you an email containing a link to the training, a password and a post-course survey. When the post course survey has been completed and submitted your certificate will be sent by email.

In the survey you will be asked to choose the training that best reflects your professional role:

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Safer Sleep Training for Early Years Providers

Specifically aimed at professionals and practitioners who are directly responsible for babies and placing babies down to sleep e.g. early years practitioners and childminders.

 This new pre-recorded training session is delivered by the highly regarded charity ‘The Lullaby Trust’ The Lullaby Trust - Safer sleep for babies, Support for families and is fully funded by Cornwall Council and the Our Safeguarding Children Partnership (OSCP). This training is part of a wider campaign and commitment to promote safe sleep practices for all babies in Cornwall and to reduce the risk of SIDS.

 It will be free to view for all early years practitioners in Cornwall only until June 2025 and contains essential information for all early years professionals who work directly with babies placing them down to sleep.

 Completing this training will support your early years setting to be compliant with the EYFS statutory framework safeguarding requirements, particularly section 3.69 ‘Sleeping children must be frequently checked to ensure that they are safe. Being safe includes ensuring that cots and bedding are in good condition and suited to the age of the child, and that babies are placed down to sleep safely in line with the latest government safety guidance: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - NHS (www.nhs.uk)’.

 In addition, the training will develop your team’s confidence to discuss safe sleep practices with families in order to safeguard babies at home, as well as in the early years setting.

 The Early Years Service consider this training to be essential viewing for all early years practitioners working directly with babies.

• SIDS and Safer Sleep Training

Specifically aimed at professionals and practitioners who are working closely with families in a role where giving safer sleep advice is part of their core role e.g. midwives, health visitors, GP staff, and social workers.

• Basic safer sleep: Having opportunistic conversations

Designed for professionals and practitioners who may come into contact with families and might have an opportunity to give safer sleep information, however brief their contact is, and irrespective of their role e.g. fire fighters, paramedics, police officers, and housing officers.