Family centres and family support projects

Our family centres and family support projects provide a broad range of services.

From early years services for all families to targeted interventions where issues have been identified, we can support families to ensure their children reach their full potential.

Help from the start

Getting involved from the first years of a child's life is important. That's what we do with our parenting programmes, health services and early years education. Working individually with pre-school children who have a disability, developmental delay or sensory impairment, we enable children to play and develop new skills.

We're there when services can be most effective - to help parents understand their children's needs and to identify potential issues early on and prevent them from getting worse. It's all about ensuring children get the best start in life.

Work with schools

Working with schools, we promote educational attendance and attainment and provide opportunities for leisure, breaks and play. Our work also extends to confronting bullying, discriminatory and anti-social behaviour.

Targeted services

For families in more complex situations that are significantly affecting the well-being of children, we offer effective, problem-solving interventions. One-to-one and group work, alongside tailored packages of psychological support, is how we do it. Giving families access to support services to help with external stresses such as housing and debt is another important service that we offer. It can really help get families back on track and give their children a better start in life.

For families at crisis point we offer emergency support and welfare advice and a residential 'Time Out' element for up to 72 hours and a 24/7 on-call system.

Making support available to all families and children from all backgrounds is what we aim for. The emotional and practical support for asylum seekers and refugees offered in our centres is a shining example of our commitment to this. All of our targeted services work to improve resilience and family attachments, and a reduction in family breakdown.

Assessing risk

We also provide comprehensive risk assessments on referred families, child protection assessments, and court reports with future planning recommendations for looked after children and children on the Child protection register.

Flexible services

By providing services in the family home and at local community venues, we can ensure that families get the support they need, when they need it.