Training for Practictioners
Basis offers training on key areas of infant research so you can stay up to date in your practice
Resources for Practitioners
Resources for Practictioners
Many of the resources we offer to parents will be equally of value to healthcare practitioners, whether as tools to support with conversations with parents or as a straightforward introduction to infant sleep and night-time care research in practice.
We also offer training and materials specifically for healthcare providers to learn more about infant sleep biology and safety. See below.
The following resources are intended for health care practitioners.
Practitioner Safe Sleep Leaflets and Information Sheets
Resources created for healthcare professionals to help inform their practice
Co-Sleeping Image Bank
If you are looking to develop your own safe sleep resources, we offer images of safe sleep situations for use, free of charge
BASIS Training for Practitioners
The Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre research team offer three training packages aimed at health-care professionals whose roles put them in contact with parents, families and parents-to-be, although this training will also be of use and interest to peer supporters, volunteers, and independent practitioners such as doulas, independent midwives, and breastfeeding supporters.
Intervention Tool: Sleep, Baby, & You
Sleep, Baby & You (SBY) is our newest developed programme and aims to help practitioners address parental requests for support around infant sleep issues. The SBY programme seeks to empower parents by providing information on what to expect regarding infant sleep, how normal sleep develops, and how to adjust to the demands of normal infant sleep.
The Sleep, Baby & You programme entails an antenatal and postnatal parent leaflet (discussion tools), practitioner guides, animated videos for use with parents, and practitioner training workshops.
The SBY Training Programme for Practitioners has been developed collaboratively by the Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre and Dr Pamela Douglas to provide practitioners with underpinning knowledge and tools to implement the SBY programme with families in a UK NHS setting. This programme has been evaluated and feedback has been positive from professionals and parents alike.
Booking
To enquire about UK groups of 10 or more people, please contact [email protected]. If you wish to book fewer than 10 places, or if you work outside the UK please visit www.ndcinstitute.com.au or www.drpam.baby
Pricing
£75 per person, with an optional £10 discussion session. We are able to offer group discounts for groups of over 20 people.
Webinars: Normal Infant Sleep and SIDS & Sleep Safety
These webinars self-directed and are hosted on our online learning platform, BasisLearn. They consist of pre-recorded video lectures, self-test quizzes, and a live online discussion. Each package begins with an introductory talk introducing the providers (DISC & BASIS) and the structure of the webcasts (20-30 mins), followed by 3 topical modules (approx. 1 hour each), self-test quizzes about each topic (10 min each) culminating with a 60-minute online discussion (5 hours in total).
Overview of Package Contents
| Normal Infant Sleep | SIDS and Sleep Safety |
|---|---|
| Introduction to DISC, BASIS and the BASIS webinars | |
| 1. Infant Sleep Ecology | 1. Infant Sleep Ecology |
| 2. Infant Sleep Development | 2. Safe Sleep & SIDS Research |
| 3. Supporting parents with infant sleep disruption | 3. Communication with parents about Sleep Safety |
| Interactive webinar session with the BASIS team (scheduled, 60 mins) |
Individuals that wish to take part should sign up for a fixed-date interactive session via the Durham University booking site. Registered participants will be provided with access to BasisLearn for 4 weeks to work through at their own pace. At the end of 4 weeks, participants are expected to attend a live discussion session hosted by the BASIS team who will be available to answer questions, discuss any information not covered in the recorded lectures and you can share ideas for practice with other training participants. Upon completion of an entire package (webcasts and online discussion), access to the webcast material will end and a completion certificate will be provided.
Pricing for Individuals
£65 for one topic
£95 for two topics
Upcoming Dates for Individuals
Please check back for future dates in 2025 or sign up to our mailing list to receive a notification.
Group bookings
We also offer these packages as group bookings. If you wish to book a training package for a group of 20 or more staff please email us at [email protected].
Safe Sleep Resources (Practitioner)
Lullaby Trust Professionals Leaflet
Download the 12 page leaflet Safer Sleep for Babies: A Guide for Professionals
Produced in collaboration between BASIS, Lullaby Trust, and Unicef.
Unicef Leaflet
Download the 4 page leaflet Co-Sleeping and SIDS: A Guide for Health Professionals
Produced by Unicef in collaboration with BASIS, the Lullaby Trust, and the Baby Friendly Initiative.
NHS Scotland Parent Leaflet
Download the 8 page leaflet Safer Sleep for Babies: A Guide for Professionals Carers.
Produced in collaboration between BASIS, NHS Scotland, Lullaby Trust, Parent Club, and Unicef, see the NHS Scotland page about the leaflet.
Lullaby Trust Quick Reference Card
Click to download the double-sided Safer Sleep for Babies Quick Reference Card.
Produced in collaboration between BASIS, Lullaby Trust, and Unicef.
NHS Scotland Quick Reference Card
Download the double sided Quick Reference Card About Safe Sleep.
Produced in collaboration between BASIS, NHS Scotland, Lullaby Trust, Parent Club, and Unicef.
Other Parent Learning Resources
The Lullaby Trust, a charity that is dedicated to keeping infants safe, has a wealth of infant safety resources available to download (free) for professionals as well as print versions available to order (print cost associated).
Unicef, the United Nations’ agency for children, has a page on co-sleeping safety for healthcare professionals with a conversational guide for when talking to parents about safety and SIDS.
The UK’s Office for Product Safety and Standards published resources about infant products safety in March 2025. Access their campaign posters and videos, available in English and Welsh, here.
Co-Sleeping Image Bank
The Co-sleeping Image Bank is a repository of images depicting safer co-sleeping/bed-sharing that are intended for use by media, businesses and health care practitioners to illustrate co-sleeping stories and situations. We offer images in high and low resolution.
Access here.
Many depictions of bed-sharing/co-sleeping used in the media and advertising (and even respected medical journals) illustrate hazardous practices. All of the images in BASIS’s image bank have been chosen to illustrate safer bed-sharing/co-sleeping arrangements.
Free to use to help your materials depict safe sleeping situations.
Access here.
Last Reviewed: August 2025