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July 24, 2025

Our Torbay Family Hub services

Download our leaflet for information on the services and support available in Torbay for infant feeding, your mental health and wellbeing and early communication. To ...

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August 20, 2025

Positive Praise

Using positive praise with your child will build their self-esteem and confidence. It may also help with behaviour issues they might be experiencing. Examples Here ...

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August 20, 2025

Positive Play Top Tips

Positive play top tips: Encourage child-led play to support your child’s development. Play fosters positive feelings and shared experiences between parent and child, helping to build ...

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August 20, 2025

Exploring Messy Play

Messy play is great for children to explore new food and textures. This can give them confidence to try new things. Here are some ideas ...

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February 5, 2025

Home Learning Environment Outreach Development Worker

Torbay Council is committed to supporting the Home Learning Environment for all children which can have a very positive impact in the early years. Parents ...

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September 9, 2024

Tots Talking

Eight one-hour weekly sessions aim to enhance communication skills in two-year-olds by involving parents and caregivers to promote language development based on research findings. Ask ...

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September 9, 2024

Early Talk Boost

A program for 3-4 year old children in nurseries improves language and communication skills by 6 months on average in 9 weeks with parental involvement ...

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September 9, 2024

Peep learning together programme

Supporting children's learning through play by providing activities for parents, carers, and practitioners to engage in during weekly sessions and at home. Watch this video ...

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December 5, 2024

Typical speech and language development

Information on what to typically expect, top tips and things you can do to encourage your baby, toddler of child's communication. Conception to birth Talking ...

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November 11, 2024

Progress Tracker from Speech and Language UK

1.9 million children currently struggle with talking and understanding words. Speech and Language UK's progress checker is based on what they know about how babies ...

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