New Good Practice Points: Surrogacy

New Good Practice Points for health visitors when visiting families where a child is born through surrogacy are published for our Associate members.

This factsheet, written by Cafcass for PHE, explains a couple’s role in surrogacy. Surrogacy is when a woman (the surrogate) agrees to carry and give birth to a baby for a couple who want to have a child (the intended parents). The intended parents may be heterosexual or same-sex, and at least one of the intended parents must be genetically-related to the child.

Go to GPP When visiting families where a child is born through surrogacy

Please note that this new GPP is available to iHV members only.

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New Good Practice Points: Talking to parents about their sexual wellbeing

New Good Practice Points for Health Visitors about Talking to parents about their sexual wellbeing have been published for our Associate members.

Despite sexual health being a priority within the Healthy Child Programme, many health visitors, from student to senior health visitor level, report difficulties in initiating discussions about sex with new parents (Glazener, 1997).
As much as professionals can find sexuality hard to talk about, so can parents – but that is not because they don’t think it is important.

Please note that this new GPP is available to iHV members only.

Go to GPP - Talking to parents about their sexual wellbeing

New Good Practice Points: Supporting the couple relationship

New Good Practice Points for Health Visitors in supporting the couple relationship during the transition to parenthood have been published for our Associate members.

It is well established that new parents are more likely to ‘turn to’ someone like a health visitor when they first experience some kind of relationship problem. Health visitors are in a unique position to offer early preventative relationship support and promote family and relationship stability

The new GPP is found on the Relationships resources page (available to Associate members only).

Go to Relationships resource page