Baby Friendly Initiative Courses
Our courses support health professionals involved in the care of mothers and babies to develop the skills and knowledge required to implement best practice.
2025 courses
Courses are delivered remotely on Microsoft Teams. Please ensure you consider your technical setup before you book onto the course and refer to the participant’s pack for more guidance. For some courses there will be an e-learning component to complete prior to the taught course days, and you should also plan time for this.
Our next available course dates are listed below – if you are waiting for more course dates, please do check back on this page weekly for further updates.
Breastfeeding and Relationship Building (£550 per person)
- 21-22 May 2025 (FULLY BOOKED)
- Further dates to be announced
Breastfeeding and Relationship Building for Early Years, Family Hubs and Sure Start staff (£550 per person)
- Further dates to be announced
Breastfeeding and Relationship Building for University Lecturers (£600 per person)
- 7-8 May 2025
- Further dates to be announced
Embedding Baby Friendly Standards in Neonatal Care (£550 per person)
- 30 April – 1 May 2025 (FULLY BOOKED)
- Further dates to be announced
Embedding Baby Friendly Standards in Hospital-based Children’s Services (£550 per person)
- 10-11 September 2025
- Further dates to be announced
Achieving Sustainability Workshop (£300 per person)
- Further dates to be announced, with the next workshop taking place in 2025.
Booking
To book a place, please download and complete the courses booking form, clearly stating the dates of the course you wish to book onto. Although this page will be updated regularly, please note that our training courses are in high demand and book up quickly. Therefore we strongly suggest filling in the form and sending back as soon as possible, with payment details to follow.
For our Train the Trainer or Five-day Training courses, please email us at [email protected] to be added to the notification lists. We are currently only offering available training dates to those who have already shown interest via our notification list, so the dates will not be published here. Please do not complete a booking form for these courses until you have been contacted with available dates.
Further information on the Infant Feeding and Relationship Building for Perinatal Mental Health staff course will be provided when available.
Our courses are designed for health professionals working in the UK healthcare system and we unable to take bookings from international attendees. Instead we recommend looking at availability for our conferences which are open to anyone.
In-house courses
If you are looking to book training in-house for a group of your staff, please contact [email protected] specifying your choice of course. Further information will be provided on availability and costs. Please note in-house training requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis, depending on training needs and availability.
Our courses are designed for health professionals working in the UK healthcare system. On occasion we can accept international attendees – if you are not UK-based but would like to enquire about attending a training session, please contact us with details of the course you are interested in and we will assess your suitability. We do invite international delegates to attend our conferences.
