Perinatal Mental Health Services

y Council, as part of the national Best Start in Life and Healthy Babies Programme (formerly Start for Life), is recommissioning a perinatal mental health peer support service to provide early, accessible, and relationship based support for parents experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficu

lties [1]. This includes anxiety, low mood, stress, and supporting healthy parent–infant relationships. The need for strengthened peer based emotional wellbeing support has been consistently highlighted by parents and carers, including thro