Local council gives away free subscriptions to a personalised parenting app that support parents of children aged 0 to 5
Dorset Council is ensuring parents of babies and children aged 0 to 5 always have help at hand, by providing residents with free subscriptions to the EasyPeasy parenting app.
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The app supports parents as well as carers, and early years practitioners in this crucial early stage of child development, and transforms everyday parenting moments into playful learning activities. It brings a range of ideas, advice, and inspiration from a diverse community of parents, experts, and brands together in one trusted resource.
Among the themes covers are bedtime, mindfulness, nutrition, speech and language, and well-being. Parents and carers can also share their own parenting tips and experience through the app, which enables them to build peer-to-peer support systems within local communities.
Dorset council is the latest local authority to partner with social enterprise EasyPeasy, which was established in 2017. Partnerships are already in place with authorities including Barnsley Metropolitan Council, Birmingham City Council, Bristol City Council, Cornwall Council, Coventry City Council, City of Doncaster Council, Hartlepool Borough Council, Kent County Council, Leicester City Council, North Lincolnshire Council, North Northamptonshire Council, Walsall Council, and South Warwickshire Council. There are also partnerships with other bodies such as Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.
Residents in Dorset can download the EasyPeasy app to their mobile devices from the App Store or Google Play, or register via the EasyPeasy website. EasyPeasy also provides information for location authorities interested in joining as partners.
Cllr Clare Sutton, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Education and Skills at Dorset Council, says: ‘This is part of our ongoing commitment to make sure our children have the best start in life and that they reach school age ready to meet their full potential. We know that the first five years of a child’s life are really crucial in their development so we want to do all we can to help parents and carers give their children the best start in life.
‘Those early years are a time of great change with lots of new skills to learn and challenges for those who look after our youngest children, so I am really pleased to see such a great resource being made available to everyone in the Dorset Council area for free.’
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