{"id":18080,"date":"2025-06-05T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18080"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:32:14","slug":"infant-mental-health-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/infant-mental-health-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant Mental Health Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week commencing 9th June 2025, is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/parentinfantfoundation.org.uk\/our-work\/imhaw\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Who is holding the baby?&#8217;.<\/a> Highlighting that not everyone bonds easily with their baby, and that parents who are overwhelmed by trauma, or struggling with mental or physical health difficulties, need support.<\/p>\n<p>Although Infant Mental Health should always be a priority, next week is an excellent opportunity to have discussions in your setting on how you support infants with their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>For information on children\u2019s mental health, please do visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help-for-early-years-providers.education.gov.uk\/health-and-wellbeing\/mental-health-for-early-years-children\" rel=\"noopener\">Help for early years providers : Mental health for early years children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to support babies and young children with their mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:37:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18082,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions\/18082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}