Registered office: Home-Start UK
2 Salisbury Road, Leicester, LEI 7QR Tel: 0116 233 9955 Fax: 0116 233 0232
Home-Start Deveron , 5 - 7 Strait Path, Banff, AB45 1AD
Registered Company No: SC280867 Registered Charity No: SC026191 Tel: 01261 819964
A quick guide to some of the support services Home-Start provides for families:
A volunteer with parenting experience who offers tailor-made one-to-one home-visiting support regularly-usually on a weekly basis
Emotional support to help parents find ways to manage and resolve problems
Direct support to children, including playing, listening, having fun, establishing feeding routines, encouraging development and providing opportunities for outings and treats
Practical help, perhaps with budgeting, nutrition and meal planning, cooking and making the home safe
Outreach and family group work so parents can get out and meet others and become more involved in their own community
Information and links to other organisations including health and educational services
Attendance at meetings and moral support, especially in relation to dealing with case conferences and dealing with solicitors and court cases
Access to parenting advice and parenting skills training
..what we do and how we do it
Supporting families in local communities
Every year Home-Start helps thousands of families in hundreds of local communities across the UK and many others based with the armed services abroad every year. Parent volunteers offer support and friendship to other parents through home visiting, via family and specialist groups and through social events. Volunteers are recruited, trained and supported by paid staff in local Home-Starts, which are guided and supported by the national organisation, Home-Start UK. Home-Start works in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations locally to help parents build better lives for their children.
Experience, commitment, trust
Home-Start has grown from one scheme in 1973 to hundreds of local Home-Starts now. All the expertise
and knowledge gained over the years makes Home-Start what it is today the
UK's leading family support charity and
an organisation valued and trusted by families and professionals alike.
A quick guide to some of the support services Home-Start provides for families:
- A volunteer with parenting experience who offers tailor-made one-to-one home-visiting support regularly-usually on a weekly basis
- Emotional support to help parents find ways to manage and resolve problems
- Direct support to children, including playing, listening, having fun, establishing feeding routines, encouraging development and providing opportunities for outings and treats
- Practical help, perhaps with budgeting, nutrition and meal planning, cooking and making the home safe
- Outreach and family group work so parents can get out and meet others and become more involved in their own community
- Information and links to other organisations including health and educational services
- Attendance at meetings and moral support, especially in relation to dealing with case conferences and dealing with solicitors and court cases
- Access to parenting advice and parenting skills training.
