 Flynstart is a Welsh Government programme which helps families to give their child the best start in life. There are four key entitlements of Flynstart that families are able to engage with from before their baby is born until their child's fourth birthday. These are intensive health visiting, speech, language and communication support, support with parenting and free part-time quality childcare when their child is aged two to three. Now, in their second year, the Stars in their Lives Awards are a key part of the Welsh Government's commitment to celebrating the success of individuals and teams and recognising best practice across the Flynstart programme. This year saw over 200 nominations from families who submitted testimonies about why they chose a member of Flynstart staff deserved to win. The winners were presented with their awards at a ceremony on Thursday 10 December by the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty. I'm extremely proud to present the Flynstart Stars in their Lives Awards, which recognise the commitment and dedication of those working in the Flynstart programme. The number and quality of nominations we received emphasises how many inspirational people worked to support families through Flynstart. Congratulations and thank you to this year's winners for their outstanding contributions to the Flynstart programme. I'm proud to be able to recognise them for their truly remarkable work. I'm delighted hardworking Flynstart staff are being recognised for the invaluable help and support they provide to families across Wales in their communities. Miriam is the type of person who's always in early and she's always late going home, so she fills her day with families. That's all she wants to do, that's her passion. She can avoid any meetings, she will. She just wants to be with parents all the time and this is her passion, her love, especially the baby group where she meets all her mums together. It's watching the children develop, it's really watching them develop and the parents develop as well in their confidence and allowing them to blossom as parents, that's her passion. Miriam is just there for the families and the mums know it whenever they pick up the phone, she's there. And that's Miriam, and that's why they wanted to take the title, thank her. Totally shocked at the moment, I can't believe it, I honestly can't believe. A huge amount of satisfaction, but it's a whole team effort. All workers in the Flying Start scheme work so hard for these families and I just feel honoured to be invited to people's homes and to be able to help them in any way. And if you look after the mothers and fathers, in turn they will ensure that the child is well as well. I work as a Flying Start health researcher in Swansea, I'm based in Seaview Flying Start. We're part of a big team here that work really closely together and really well together. Personally I think she's amazing, I've never met a health visitor like her before. She's not a textbook health visitor. She's really good with the kids and she gets down to the level, like normal health visitors come in, they sit on the chair or just stand there, she gets down on the floor. She's amazing and she's polite and courteous and good with the kids and good with me and Kayleigh as a couple as well, not just with the work she does with the kids but she's also there with advice. Whilst I appreciate that the award has gone through my name, I think sort of without the rest of the team it just wouldn't have happened. It's been lovely to actually be honoured and sort of respected in the way that it has been and it's been fabulous all the feedback since as well. This is quite incredible actually, whilst the instinct is actually to be a little bit embarrassed. I think sort of the people that have put up nominated people and have nominated us as professionals. It's just phenomenal. Carrie deserves this award because her work ethic is absolutely brilliant. She always puts the child before herself. The child welfare is paramount and Carrie works with that all the time. Well typical day for the Flying Start families, they arrive at 9 o'clock and they all come in really happy most of the time and then they get the chance to do free play. They get the choice to go inside or outside as they please. There's lots of activities for a small world, lots of messy play go on and then we do quiet activities as well. I think the best thing is seeing how they develop through the three terms that they're with us. I mean when they first start with us they're very shy and maybe not have much confidence and then by the time they leave us they're ready to go on to the three plus and they've learnt so much just seeing the way that their confidence and their knowledge has grown through the three terms, I think that's the best thing. Overwhelmed really, it's such a nice feeling to know that the parents really appreciate what you do for them and the children and the whole family really. So it's a really nice feeling. Abby's a shiny example of what a Flying Start health is supposed to be. She goes above and beyond what her requirements are in her job. I'm a Flying Start healthist during Cardiff working predominantly in St Bannon's area. The parent who's nominated her has helped the family through a whole range of issues. She's a shining example of the work that goes on here in Cardiff in Flying Start. It's really quite honouring to have won awards. I haven't been a healthist for very long and I don't have any children myself. I do feel like I have 148 of them so that's really nice that somebody's valued my support and help. If we contain something for the better in a child's life or a parent's life, then I've done my job. It's great. It's really nice. I feel quite humbled by the whole experience. I was just doing my job to better my ability and do what we can to make their lives better and to give them a Flying Start in life. I'm a childcare practitioner so I work with children aged two to three. Children have free choice of play. We just have fun with the kids, watching them play, nurturing the children, helping them develop in different areas. I work with the children. We help develop their development. We interact and we play and we do assessments and we just have fun and I enjoy coming to work, which is already unusual. Flying Start makes such a difference to our families and our children and it's really rewarding watching the children progress in their social skills, in their speech and language and communication skills and ready in preparation for when they move on to nursery and school. I'm really pleased that we've achieved the world today and we're really proud of our team back at Busy Butterflies and we're really pleased that we've got the recognition for all our hard work and dedication. It's amazing to have the overall achievement of, like Kelly said, being recognised, but also then you do get so much satisfaction from knowing you've not just helped the child, but the family as a whole. It's great to be here today presenting the Stars and Their Lives Awards and celebrating the fantastic work that our Flying Start very committed and dedicated staff do right across Wales. I think it's really important that we celebrate success and we started these awards last year, so this is the second year and to listen to the citations from people who nominated their Flying Start staff is just incredible to listen and hear about it.