Registered office: Home-Start UK

2 Salisbury Road, Leicester,  LEI 7QR Tel: 0116 233 9955 Fax: 0116 233 0232

E-mail info@homestartdeveron.org.uk  Wbesite: homestartdeveron.org.uk

Home-Start Deveron , 5 - 7 Strait Path, Banff, AB45 1AD

Registered Company No: SC280867  Registered Charity No: SC026191 Tel: 01261 819964  

Working preventatively with parents & children

Families need support for many reasons: perhaps they are struggling to cope with postnatal illness, a child's disability, family breakdown or bereavement or maybe they feel isolated and unable to connect with their local community. Whatever the reason, Home-Start provides non-judgemental practical and emotional support and helps build the family's confidence and ability to cope.

The day a family decides it no longer needs Home-Start support is a good day for Home-Start.

A UK wide network

A key promise made to families by Home-Start is that wherever they live, they can depend on the same high quality service of support. Initially, Home-Start UK works with local community groups to set up a new Home-Start, and then supports it in its work with families. Quality is maintained because all Home-Starts assess every aspect of their work against agreed quality standards and are reviewed by Home-Start UK. Home-Start UK can do this because it has experienced national and regional staff providing training for all Home-Start staff and volunteers: information and guidance on family support, governance, legal and human resources advice and help with fundraising.

A value-for-money service

Each Home-Start scheme is an independent charity and local statutory sources are generally the key funders of Home-Start's core services for families. Social services, health and education budgets help fund schemes and the majority of our referrals come from these areas. Other essential funding comes from independent trusts, grant makers, corporate donors and individuals. Home-Start is highly rated by both statutory and non-statutory funders as a value-for-money, quality service, which provides support for families where they need it, how they need it and when they need it.

What we achieve for parents & children Home-Start runs more services and has more volunteers supporting more families than any other family support charity in the UK.

Home-Start support helps:

Reduce family isolation and increase social support networks

Strengthen parent-child relationships

Improve parents' physical health & emotional well being

Develop and improve parenting skills Improve the home environment

Improve children's health, well being and development

Increase access to health, education and community services

Home-Start is a very impressive organisation...as it supports interaction between parents and children, which aids child development and increases children's self esteem. I want to congratulate Home-Start for all it is doing especially in nurturing children, who are our future. Professor Lord Robert Winston