Big Hopes, Big Future

Home-Start UK has developed the unique Big Hopes Big Future programme to work directly with parents and children and help them to build the skills they need to be ready for the first day of school. In the UK around 600,000 five-year-olds start school for the first...

Rapid Response Early Intervention Service

At Home-Start Wessex we are fortunate enough to have received a grant from the NHS Charities Together Partnership Grants Programme to fund a ‘Rapid Response Intervention Worker’ in the team to provide specialist 1:1 home visiting support to families with the most...

Autumn and Back to School Wellness tips

The colder months are now upon us. With the children now comfortably back to school after the summer holidays, we are in the time of year where routine is the most important. Easing into autumn and the school routine can sometimes be quite tough and rather...

Help from specialist intervention staff

When the referral was received from social services for this family it was clear that the best support would be from our paid specialist early intervention worker. Mum and her young child came to us in a dire situation having both suffered from violence by her...

Mental health affected mum and baby bonding

A family with six children aged 0-13 were referred to us after mum gave birth and was admitted to a psychiatric mother and baby unit after the birth which was traumatic. Mum was struggling with perinatal and post-natal mental health and was admitted as additional...