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This project or publication was produced before or during the merger of What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF).
Watch Me Play (WMP) is an early intervention programme for parents/caregivers with babies or young children, and aims to protect children’s mental health by enhancing child development and caregiver-child relationships.
WMP involves a parent/caregiver watching the child play and talking to their child about their play for a period of up to 20 minutes (one session). Some longer sessions will be facilitated by a trained practitioner who will join the parent/caregiver in watching the child or baby either in-person or online (using secure video conferencing software), and talking to the child about their play, providing prompts to the parent/caregiver where necessary.
The Centre for Trials Research (CTR) Cardiff University and Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust are conducting a feasibility study of this intervention to better understand how parents/caregivers engage with WMP, and to support the development of a future pilot randomised controlled trial investigating evidence of promise. In this study, forty parents/caregivers with children aged 0 to 8 years will be recruited from early years and children services across the UK and offered WMP.
Research questions will be split into four areas:
