Mission and Beliefs
Home-Start believes that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents play the key role in giving their children a good start in life and helping them to achieve their full potential.
Our Mission
Home-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children in local communities throughout the UK and with British Forces in Germany and Cyprus.
Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train
volunteers who are usually parents themselves to visit families with at
least one child under five, at home, and offer them informal, friendly
and confidential support.
Our approach
Home-Start Schemes are rooted in the communties they serve.
They are managed locally, but supported by the national
organisation: this offers direction, training, information and
guidance and ensures consistent and quality support for parents and
children wherever they are.
Home-Start has a proven, lasting, positive impact on the development of children and the health and welfare of the family.
So, the man from Mars coming here today would say: ‘Why as earthlings are you not investing every penny you can possibly afford into your most precious resource, which is your children and families?'
Professor Al Aynsley-Green
Children's Commissioner for England
