![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/princess-of-wales-calls-for-new-mothers-to-get-more-support/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000315631569_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqxi2zLgDPyNJxHTH5AndvQzRD3vWcyS41OHqZ-GGYMKw.jpeg&description=The Princess of Wales has called for maternity and children's services to 'join the dots' to help new mothers, saying more 'holistic' support works to boost their confidence. The Princess, visiting Colham Manor Children's Centre in Hillingdon, London, spoke of her hopes for integrated children's centres being created across Britain to help parents and babies. The centre brings midwives, health visitors, social workers, charities and specialist psychiatrists under one roof to help vulnerable mothers navigate their children's early years. 'I think more places like this would be so valuable in communities, bringing people together,' the Princess said. 'It's fantastic what's being done here. It's not about having more services, it's actually about being able to integrate them.' She spent the morning with mothers, babies and toddlers, offering one curious young man her own poppy after he pointed it out on her coat. Telling three-year-old boy Akeem her name was Catherine, she explained the poppy was 'remembering all the soldiers who died in the war". Inside the centre, which helps women from pregnancy onwards, she joined a roundtable meeting with health workers, midwives and other professionals to tell them: 'It is amazing what you've achieved.' 'I was chatting to mums, lots of different life experiences, different experiences of engaging with their community here, but also the community services in general,' she said, adding she had heard a 'real appreciation, I suppose, of what's happening here'. She added that the parents were 'able to form trusting relationships with the staff that are here but then that opens up a whole network of support services that they didn't know existed'. 'I think if you can join the dots to help mums know the sort of provision that is here, and be able to provide it in a holistic way, which is what seems to be so successful here,' she said. 'It does work. 'But also I heard from mums where this type of provision... when it is not in place ther){kind=link}
Kate spoke of her hopes for integrated children’s centres being created across Britain to help parents and babies
The Princess of Wales has called for maternity and children’s services to “join the dots” to help new mothers, saying more “holistic” support works to boost their confidence.
The Princess, visiting Colham Manor Children’s Centre in Hillingdon, London, spoke of her hopes for integrated children’s centres being created across Britain to help parents and babies.
The centre brings midwives, health visitors, social workers, charities and specialist psychiatrists under one roof to help vulnerable mothers navigate their children’s early years.
“I think more places like this would be so valuable in communities, bringing people together,” the Princess said.