 Flying Start is a Welsh Government programme that will help you to give your child the best start in life. There are four key areas to Flying Start that you and your family can benefit from. These are intensive health visiting, hints, tips and support with parenting, support with language development and free part-time childcare when your child turns two. These services can be accessed through Welsh or English. You and your family are the most important people in your child's life. The early months of having a baby can be the most exciting, rewarding, tiring and challenging times of your life. Your local Flying Start team will be there to support you through it all. Your Flying Start team will help you prepare for having your baby. They can come to your house or you can attend local anti-natal classes to give you advice on not only childbirth, changing nappies and giving your baby its first bath, but they can also give you advice on the importance of talking and singing to your baby, even when it's still in your tummy. Your unborn baby can hear everything you say and loves to hear your voice. Once your baby has been born, your health visitor will come and visit you and your family. With the health visiting service, we would visit you and your family on a more frequent basis. We will work very closely on helping you to enjoy your children. Your health visitor will talk with you about the benefits of breastfeeding, as well as how to keep your home safe for your new arrival. Your health visitor will introduce you to other members of the Flying Start team. Play, language and support and parenting workers to name just a few. They'll tell you about the different groups, classes and courses running in your area. These cover various topics from baby massage to messy play sessions, language and play sessions, cooking with a child and there are sessions to give you tips on how to deal with the everyday issues. This can give you a chance to meet other parents and for your child to start making new friends. We hope a welcoming place for families to come in with their little ones and to talk to professionals like health visitors, speech and language therapists, social care staff, really arrange your services and what's not here we can usually arrange to be here. Hello, my name is Aisha and this is my daughter Jasmine. We attend many of the groups here run by Flying Start. They benefit us in a very good way because I get to socialise with other parents, talk with them and sort of compare notes in a way really. Jasmine has come on really well, she's made a lot of friends. She socialises a lot better as well. She's not so clingy to me anymore. We come to about four groups a week here. One of them is Lunch Club and we attend that before Jasmine goes to her afternoon session in school. We have lunch there, they supply craft activities for us to do and it just makes our day a lot better really. I would advise it for anybody. There doesn't come a rule book with little ones so we are here to put the professionals together to give you a hand really and to support you. I've been coming to the parenting group for the last seven or eight weeks. I find that it helps me communicate with other parents and to learn how to do things in a different way than I would normally do things to see if it helps with situations from home. It helps with meal times, bath times, controlling the children when they've got three of them all together, walking back and forth to school making sure they all stick together. If I speak politely to them they seem to speak politely back. I've just learnt so much from learning from everybody because every single parent does everything differently. My kids enjoy the experience as well because I take them home and do different things every day to see how things work. So really we all benefit from it and it gets easier for all of us. So with Lindsay, at first when I phoned her up to ask if she was interested in attending the incredible years course she said she didn't feel confident enough to come to that. So what I decided to do was one to one sessions in the home. I boosted her confidence enough to attend the group in the end and she's attending now weekly. She's aiming towards things now. She wants to fill the form in now for gam wrth gam which is in order to do training in the nursery schools. Singing, talking and playing with your child will give them the great start and get them ready for nursery. Through the Flying Start programme you and your little one will have access to singing, reading and other early language sessions. Your child will be given an additional set of books and crayons. Together you and your child can enjoy looking at the pictures, talking about what you see around you and have fun watching your toddler scrib in their first picture while singing their favourite nursery rhymes. Since he's been coming at his speech and language it's just like rocket at it. It's been really really good and he just hasn't stopped talking. Children need to be able to talk and communicate well with other children in order to make friends, be sociable and get on in life. It also needs to have language to be able to learn, to access nursery and school, to be able to later on read and write. So I think it's very important that we give children a really good start when they're little, help them with their talking and their understanding so that they're in the best position they could be to progress. Your health visitor will keep an eye on how your child's speech and language is developing. If you have any concerns, talk with your health visitor or one of the Flying Start team. Your child will be able to attend free part-time Flying Start childcare the term following their second birthday. With your health visitor you can discuss which childcare facilities are in your area. You will be able to visit the setting, meet the key workers who will be looking after your toddler and watch your child having lots of fun whilst they grow and develop. My daughter, Brun Cymru, she's two. She's got a lot more confidence than what she used to do. She plays well with other children. She's coming home and telling me the songs that she's learnt. A toddler training is brilliant. The teachers are all brilliant, they support the children a lot and if you've got any problems you can go straight to them. It's really lovely even if my daughter's ill. She never wants to have a day off. My little boy Leo, since he started his behaviour has completely changed. He respects me more. When he comes out then after the two and a half hours it's like he's missed me. He's so much more loving and he looks forward to it every day and he's just loving it. He's full of beans. We've had really good feedback from the parents saying that they get really helpful in home and they enjoy interacting with them as well. Reading in the bear hand is quite repetitive so the children get to join in with the story as well just not just listening to me. They get a lot of language out there which some people don't know actually reading books. It can help them in a little life with the language and to form words. They enjoy it and it's fun. Whilst they are in childcare you can have a bit of time for yourself. Some flying start parents have attended training courses. Others have found some part-time jobs whilst some use the time to catch up with friends, family and even housework. Whatever you choose you will know that your child will be having a fun time making new friends and learning new skills to get them ready for school. Your child deserves a flying start in life. For more information please use the contact details on the screen now.