Heather Welford - Freelance Writer

Only a proportion of my work is online. Some of the work I do for government information services gets removed
after a short time, as information goes out of date. Other work is behind a subscription-only firewall.

These examples give a taste of my experience.

The Guardian

Family Life

This is a picture of the Peel family, taken in around 1916 in Tynemouth.

Get Moving

Leeds' childhood obesity project is trying some unusual steps to improve child health, finds Heather Welford...

Breastfeeding gets image overhaul

A successful campaign to persuade young mums to breastfeed is spreading as heath professionals challenge old prejudices...

Why I love...

...the Geordie accent.

The news that foreign healthcare workers in the north-east have signed up for Geordie lessons at Newcastle College this term comes as a surprise. Are we really that hard to understand?

I concede that phrases such as "me heed's pure knackin', man" and "Aa wiz pallatic an' Aa fell doon" may present problems on those long and bloody Friday nights in A&E.

Daily Mirror

Minister urges children to play more computer games.

Help your children understand they should never give out personal details to online friends they do not know offline..

How best to tell children about death.

The Independent

The children who drive teachers out. By Heather Welford

First the good news; school exclusions are down. Next, the bad news: teachers wish they weren't because they have to cope with the results.

Teachers are tearing their hair out trying to deal with difficult, aggressive and disruptive pupils, yet the Government, concerned by the relentless rise in exclusions, is pushing for, and getting, a significant number of reductions...

Fabulous magazine

Various lifestyle and interview pieces - not online

New Statesman

Interview - Mike Campbell

His quango is no bureaucracy. It's lean and mean, and determined to get businesses the people they need. Mike Campbell interviewed by Heather Welford.

The skills gap has "bedevilled our economy for years", says Mike Campbell, director of strategy and research at the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA). "Employers and training and education providers have been shouting across fences at each other for ages."

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TV support

Most of the website background copy for Channel 4's The Unteachables

Much of the parenting support information for Cbeebies

UK Department of Health

Good practice and innovation in breastfeeding

Baby Express. Toddler Express

Editor of these month-by-month magazines for new parents, supported by the family policy unit of the Home Office and by the Children’s Foundation. Click here for more information.

The Knitter

Mslexia magazine

Feature: Taking the Plunge

You dream of jacking in the day job and becoming a full-time writer. But can you manage it financially? Are you prepared to beaver away alone, day in, day out? Heather Welford explores the realities of the writing life, to help you decide for yourself if you're at the jumping off point.

Most of the content for The House Partnership website, a partnership of psychotherapists in central London who commissioned an extensive website to inform and support their clients about mental health and emotional well-being

BBC

Most of website’s Pregnancy and Parenting content

Signs of pregnancy
Heather Welford

The best known sign of pregnancy is a missed period, but there are other symptoms that can let you know you're pregnant even before this time.

Net Doctor

microsite for parents and others about ADHD

Recent Titles

Successful Infant Feeding (Carrol Brown 2011)

Teach Yourself Getting Pregnant (Harper Collins 2007)

Feelings after birth: the NCT Book of Postnatal depression (Harper Collins 2003)

More titles are listed here.

Report writing

producing a report on young people’s music and mental
health programme for NHS Health Scotland.

Co-writing a report for UNICEF Bosnia on ante-natal education (from the field, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka).

Case studies for schools interested in e-learning for Vision2learn

Video scripting/directing

Breastfeeding - something to be proud of (for Tyne&Wear Health ActionZone). 2001. Available here.

Expecting more than one - video for parents of multiples (for Tamba, the Twins and Multiple Births Association). Available from Tamba.

Completed MSc in Health Sciences, 2009, at Northumbria University. Dissertation on maternal-infant relationships

Media training and teaching

Marketing consultancy for Huggies potty dance tour, 2010 - writing, meeting consumers

Interviewer for Hidden Hearing UK for consumer testimonials tour, 2011

email: heathwel@blueyonder.co.uk mobile: 07778 267 145