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Articles in June, 2009 issue of Community Practitioner

• Frontline pressures after Baby P: practitioners tell of the pressures that they now face in safeguarding children, highlighting a lack of supportive management and insufficient staffing levels
  by Kin Ly
• An opportunity in the asking: the research forum on potential sources of funding that are available to health visitors and nurses in Scotland for research into community practice
• Nothing about us without us: involving families in Early Support
  by Janet Heywood
• Controversial questions : what is the right size for a health visiting caseload?
  by Sarah Cowley; Christine Bidmead
• Prescription to practise: preliminary findings from a pilot survey of community practitioner nurse prescribers have highlighted the need for this tool to be used more fully
  by Penny Franklin
• Alcohol brief interventions: exploring perceptions and training needs
  by Joanne Lacey
• New infant growth charts: the new charts set breastfeeding as the norm for infant growth
  by Helen Bedford; David Elliman
• Breastfeeding protects against risk of SIDS
• Giving PCV before DPTaP-Hib vaccine is less painful for infants
• Study calls for participation by disabled children to be encouraged
• Use of a dummy may not affect breastfeeding adversely
• One in six older people living at home face malnutrition risk
• Remission of postpartum depression improves sexual dysfunction
• Urinary incontinence prevalence pre- and postpartum
• Public sector to 'take hit' for budget savings: Unite concerned that 'efficiency savings' could affect service quality in the NHS
• No ring-fenced money for safeguarding
• Saving community services
  by Sian Errington
• The protectors' handbook: reducing the risk of child sexual abuse and helping children recover
  by Donna Shipp
• Child care today: what we know and what we need to know
  by Brenda Poulton
• Diary
• Sleep groups or clinics
• ME in under-fives
• 'Too scared' to blow the whistle
• CQC outlines Baby P trust failings
• Conference holiday prize draw
• Unique contribution of the health visitor
• Revised Personal Child Health Record
• Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme
• Innovation and nurse leadership funding
• Social Partnership Forum
• Autism consultation
• New BPA-free baby-feeding bottles
• Violence against women taskforce
• Change4Life toolkits
• Community Long Service Award
• GP HPV jabs
• Flu pandemic preparation
• Nursing model could affect recruitment
• Child poverty rising
• Men's Health Week
• Children with asthma 'miss out'
• Public health nurse teams need school-age focus
• Poor nutritional quality in popular baby foods
• An agenda to damage: Transforming Community Services furthers an agenda in England for greater NHS privatisation and fragmentation that must be opposed
  by Barrie Brown