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Korean visit to Home-Start South Oxfordshire

South Korean visit to Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire

A delegation of Korean social work staff visited Home-Start to find out more about our work. More
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A £276,182 Lottery grant to set up a new Home-Start in Wales

Home-Start in Monmouthshire gets the go ahead to recruit staff and volunteers. More
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Home-Start at the Labour party conference

Party conferences - raising awareness of threats to family support

We join up with Children England to show the need for continued investment in families. more
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About Home-Start

Through a network of nearly 16,000 trained parent volunteers we support thousands of parents who are struggling to cope. Our families need support for many reasons including post-natal illness, disability, bereavement, the illness of a parent or child, or social isolation. Parents supporting other parents - to help build a family's confidence and ability to cope.

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It has been clearly shown that the Home-Start model works equally well in inner cities, surburbia, rural areas and on, for example military bases. It is based on a clear focus on securing the wellbeing of children and families, good organisation and supervision, and partnership with the statory agencies.
It generates goodwill in the community, builds on the positives and is a channel for some remarkably creative engagement with families.

Lord Laming CBE

Home-Start in the news

We've been speaking out recently - highlighting what could happen to family support services if major government cuts hit hard this autumn. See what we've been saying:

Small charities bear the brunt of cuts despite Big Society pledge, Children and Young People Now Magazine (10-23 August 2010)

News Insight: Joint working - Volunteer helpers under dire threat, Children and Young People Now Magazine (24 - 31 August 2010)

Charity shortfalls could scupper Sure Start Plan, Nursery World Magazine (18 August 2010)

Also in the news:

Home-Start Calderdale featured in Community Care Magazine.

Can't cook, will cook - an article highlighting Home-Start Calderdale's partnership with the Dean Clough Cookery School in Halifax. A successful lottery grant has allowed Home-Start to team up with the cookery school to run a project called 'Cook-Start', which helps 'forgotten families' in the Calderdale area of Yorkshire and teaches them how to cook healthy, nutritious meals on a budget.