This community

This community takes different shapes depending on how each person or organisation is involved:

  • Supporting Village — trusted practitioners who support parents directly, outside the parent-and-baby space

  • Partners — specialists who actively support Recognised Practitioners through training and expertise

  • Advisory Circle — voices from across the sector who help keep the Framework current and grounded in real practice

Together, they help ensure every family finds the right support, and every practitioner is backed by knowledge that goes beyond their

The Supporting Village is a directory of trusted practitioners who support the parent directly—rather than parent and baby together—across areas such as wellbeing, life coaching, birth trauma support and navigating neurodiversity. Like Partner status, a Supporting Village listing is a form of mutual signposting rather than a paid service: it gives parents a wider circle of trusted support beyond Recognised Practitioners, and is offered at no cost.

  • Emma brings knowledge and lived experience around neurodiversity and inclusive practice. She helps us think about how parent-baby spaces can feel safer, more welcoming, and more accessible for neurodivergent parents, babies, and families. Emma supports late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults and parents of neurodivergent children to better understand themselves and their families.

  • Helping people reconnect with themselves through nature-based coaching and outdoor conversations. Tom will be a trusted signpost within Parent Baby Spaces and a valuable resource for dads and those who identify as dads. If you feel Tom's support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.

  • Mendara runs small, anonymous, facilitated group sessions for women who have had a difficult birth experience. Sessions are text-based, completely anonymous, and led by a trained facilitator with lived experience of a difficult birth. Developed in partnership with the Birth Trauma Association. If you feel their support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.

Partner status is offered to organisations and individuals who actively support Recognised Practitioners with training, ongoing learning or professional development—typically through at least one webinar or training session made available each year. Unlike Alignment and Recognition, Partner status is about what an organisation gives to the PBS community, not what it receives from it. In return, Partners are named and profiled within the Framework and across Parent Baby Spaces' own channels.
Partner status is offered at no cost, in recognition of what Partners contribute directly to the PBS community. Current Partners include Your Well Being Company (Official Well-being Partner), the Accessible Parenting Network (Disability Specialist Partner), and Health and Safety Strategies (Safeguarding and First Aid Partner).

  • Parent Baby Spaces works alongside the Accessible Parenting Network (APN) as its disability specialist partner, and its accessibility guidance is built into the Framework. As part of Recognition, practitioners engage with APN guidance and attend at least one APN webinar each year, covering disability terminology, accessibility and welcoming practice for disabled parents.

  • Parent Baby Spaces works alongside Your Well Being Company (YWC) as its Official Well-being Partner, supporting the wellbeing of practitioners and families alongside the standards set out in this Framework. As part of Recognition, practitioners have access to one YWC webinar each year, with a discount available for continued learning through YWC.


  • Parent Baby Spaces works alongside Health and Safety Strategies as its Safeguarding and First Aid Partner, supporting practitioners to access Ofqual-compliant, high-quality safety training as part of the Framework. As part of Recognition, practitioners have access to funded or discounted safeguarding and first aid training places through Health and Safety Strategies on an ongoing basis. This funded training offer may be adapted as the movement grows.

The Advisory Circle brings together independent specialists who review the Framework against the requirements of their own field or industry, on two set dates each year. Advisory Circle members are not required to offer training, funding or resources to practitioners—their role is to provide independent expert challenge that keeps the Framework current, evidence-based and credible. Like Partner and Supporting Village, Advisory Circle involvement is unpaid, offered as a contribution to the sector rather than a service received from it.

  • Health and Safety Strategies is powered by its people. Founded with a vision to make specialist healthcare related training accessible to everyone, we strive to deliver the highest quality instruction while maintaining strict compliance with the Ofqual framework. We believe that effective safety training goes beyond ticking boxes — it's about protecting lives and fostering a culture of care. Through engaging courses, up-to-date industry practices, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, we help organisations protect their most valuable asset: their workforce.

  • Josie is the founder of The Natural Sensory Nook and Divine Mother Circles, creating nurturing spaces that support both families and women through life's most transformative seasons. With over 20 years of experience working with children and families, she is an early years professional, educator, mentor, speaker and advocate for emotionally connected care.

  • Emma Sails is an ICF-accredited coach who has done a significant amount of neurodivergent specific training. She supports neurodivergent adults and parents of neurodivergent children, to help them understand and accept how neurodivergence impacts their lives, and learn what they can do to stop it from holding them back.

  • Melissa Johns is an actor, writer, disability advocate and founder of The Accessible Parenting Network (APN), an organisation bringing disabled parents together to shape a world that works for them. Melissa has spent much of her career advocating for better disability representation and access. Alongside her work as an actor — including six series as Miss Scott in ITV's Grantchester — she is Co Artistic Director of TripleC, a BAFTA-winning, disabled-led organisation working to improve access and inclusion across the creative industries. After becoming a mum to her daughter, Ottilly, in October 2025, Melissa experienced first-hand how rarely parenting products, services, spaces and systems are designed with disabled parents in mind. She founded The Accessible Parenting Network to change that — bringing disabled parents' lived experience into the rooms where products are designed, services are shaped and decisions are made.