Free learning in emotional health, childhood development and parenting to support children and families in your area
Raise emotional health in your area by providing free access to a defined geographical population through the purchase of a Multi-User Licences (MUL) on the Solihull Approach learning platform, inourplace.
A range of courses and resources are available for universal access as well as specialist content designed for practitioner CPD.
Home to a range of resources and online courses for families. Evidence-based learning to help understand brain development, emotional health and how to nurture wellbeing.
- Antenatal courses developed with midwives proven to build confidence
- Postnatal courses, including specialist learning support for families of babies in neonatal care
- Parent learning as children grow: understanding brain development, behaviour, additional needs and mental health
- Teenage brain development courses for parents and carers
- For teenagers - understanding their own adolescent brain development
- Specialist learning to support understanding and processing of trauma
- Relationships and wellbeing course to support communication and reduce parental conflict
Private, self-paced learning accessible online anytime, anywhere
‘inourplace courses are for all parents: We want to destigmatise parent learning and increase access to information that can help children to thrive. Based on the Solihull Approach model, we create a reflective space for parents to think about their child’s developmental age, their behaviour and their emotional needs, as well as their own. The parent-child relationship is among the most important for a child’s ability to understand the world, their behaviour, and their other relationships and it helps lay the foundations for longer-term mental health. Supporting parents in this way is key to preventing mental illness.’
Dr Rebecca Johnson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Solihull Approach Development Manager
90%+ consistently recommend the courses
30% proven decrease in parent anxiety after following antenatal course
Improves feelings of closeness and hopefulness for parents of neonatal babies
Proven increase in parent confidence and self-belief in the postnatal period following the online course
97%+ found ‘Understanding your child with additional needs’ helpful
Antenatal course improves intentions to breastfeed and to quit smoking
95%+ found ‘Understanding your own trauma’ helpful
90% of teenagers agreed they found the ‘Understanding your brain’ content helpful
Improved closeness and reduced conflict evidenced using Child Parent Relationship scale
‘This course has been an absolutely invaluable gift to me. It has and will change so many aspects of my life. I am undoubtedly a better parent and a more rounded and fulfilled person as a result. I wish I’d known all this years ago.’
Learner on Understanding your child from toddler to teenager
‘A very easy-to-understand way of putting things, and no longer will I fight against things I cannot change due to my biology’
Learner on Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)
Read more about our impact and evidence base.
How does a Multi-User Licence work?
- Funding a licence creates a unique access code for you to pass on the offer to your families and wider communities.
- The access code unlocks free learning across the inourplace site.
- Learners create their own private account and access will last a lifetime
Sponsors can expect:
- Flexible and excellent value pricing
- Sophisticated report system (anonymised data)
- Real-time insights to monitor effectiveness
- Personalised implementation and ongoing support
- Communications and marketing toolkit
- Easy-to-use, positive learner experience
Current sponsors
In the UK, more than 80 local authorities and health trusts have funded Multi-User Licences for free access in their areas.
This means more than 60% of the UK population currently benefit from free access!
Read more about how the Multi-User Licence works for our sponsors
The Solihull Approach model is for all families around the world. The Multi-User Licence can be easily initiated for impact outside of the UK too.
inourplace Iceland
- Population 393,000
- Sponsored by Geðverndarfélag Íslands
- Courses translated into Icelandic
- Local engagement strategy
- Ongoing research project
‘Our organisation is proud to bring this unique learning space to everyone in Iceland. It builds on our history of pioneering mental health support in Iceland and our commitment to raising emotional health across the country and ensuring equal access for everyone. We know of the impact of the Solihull Approach and have seen it transform our practice, having invested in workforce training over many years. It is fantastic to now make this knowledge accessible to everyone in the country, in particular to parents who are, for many of our young people, the most important relationships shaping their emotional health.’
Kjartan Valgarðsson, Chief Executive Officer at the Icelandic Mental Health Association
Multi-User Licence for professionals CPD
The MUL for online courses for professionals enables easy access to specialist knowledge areas such as trauma, attachment and brain development.
The professional licence ensures:
- Unlimited access for all professionals (cross-sector) in your area to high quality, evidence-based CPD to study anytime, anywhere
- Access to a supportive professional community of practice
- Learners create their own account, and access will last a lifetime, 3 x 3.75 hours CPD, can be revisited at any time
- Comprehensive communications and marketing toolkit
- Monthly reporting and access to customised data dashboard