Policy

As one of the UK’s leading family support charities, Home-Start has extensive knowledge of the issues faced by parents and children in the UK. We use our experience supporting families to influence and respond to policy direction in the four nations of the UK as well as British Forces families in Cyprus.

We:

• link the families and volunteers we work with and the issues that affect them to Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly;
• support our local Home-Starts to respond locally to policy initiatives that impact families, volunteers and small charities;
• use evidence from our own research to inform debates around family policy;
• influence politicians to adopt policies and introduce new legislation which reflect the needs of families in the UK;
• contribute to government consultations; and
• work with other organisations to bring attention to issues affecting children and families and create a strong message around family support.