Decision details

Rockabye is a Bristol-based organisation which support parents and carers and offers a therapeutic programme which supports parent-infant mental health by nurturing the relationship between parent and baby to enhance attachment, experience, and wellbeing. Using funding from the Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care’s Family Hubs increase capacity to deliver antenatal and postnatal programmes for mothers.

To grant fund Rockabye to run a pilot therapeutic parent-infant mental health programme for fathers/co-parents; increase capacity to deliver antenatal and postnatal programmes for mothers.

The funding was to pilot work with fathers and co-parents and working with a known and trusted provider was deemed the most cost and time effective approach as well as being permissible within procurement regulations. Rockabye holds a distinctive position compared with other programmes as it is the only group that explicitly aims to address the relationship between parent and baby.