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Need Support?

As a parent you might ask for Home-Start's help for all sorts of reasons:

• You may be feeling isolated in your community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends.
• You may be finding it hard to cope because of your own or your child's illness.
• You may have been hit hard by the death of a loved one.
• You may be really struggling with emotional and physical demands of having twins or triplets - perhaps born into an already large family.

Help is at hand. We look to support any family who needs us in your own home, as long as they have at least one child under five.

If you are a professional who wants to refer a family find out more here. Families and parents read on.

But what do we mean by 'support'? If you ask for Home-Start's help you can be sure of total confidentiality. There is no stigma attached to Home-Start's help - the fact that almost 25% of families refer themselves to us is proof of that. And all Home-Start's volunteers have an enhanced level criminal records check.

After asking for our support you will meet with one of our local organisers who will carefully match you with one of our volunteers. Our volunteers, who all have parenting experience, will visit you for a couple of hours a week and give you both emotional and practical help.

The best way to find out what Home-Start support really means is to read what our families have to say about us.