Children's Health Visiting

Our Health Visiting teams provide a Public Health service with expert advice, support and interventions for families and children across Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board. Health Visitors support the health and wellbeing of children and their families from the antenatal period up to 5 years old by offering information and advice to parents. This advice includes antenatal support, physical and emotional wellbeing of children, the childhood immunisation programme, parenting support, Infant and child nutrition , health and developmental progress. Within our Health Visiting teams, we have Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, Early Years Advisors and Specialist Health Visitors based within the community. 

The Health Visiting team work closely with Midwives, General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, the Community Paediatric Team, Speech and Language Therapists, Therapies, School Nurses, Social Workers, Pre-Schools, Nurseries, and other agencies to ensure all of your child’s individual needs are addressed. 

The Health Visiting Service in Wales is guided by the Healthy Child Wales Programme (An overview of the Healthy Child Wales Programme), which sets out the planned contacts that children and their families can expect from their Health Visitor.  

Within CTMUHB there are different programmes in each area, therefore, your Health Visiting visits may differ. These are: - Flying Start (FS) and Generic in Merthyr and Bridgend and Communities working Together for Children’s Health (CWTCH) in Rhondda Cynon Taf. 

The Health Visiting team will provide support from the antenatal period and the child's birth to their first years of school. This includes: 

Who are Health Visitors and what do they do? 

Watch this video from the iHV to have an insight of what your Health Visitor can offer

https://vimeo.com/772475131/7057202720  

Local Health Visiting contact details 

Your family Health Visitor’s contact details will be in the front of the ‘Personal Child health Record’ (Red Book).