Home-Start Newcastle Borough have a team of committed, professionally trained and highly experienced volunteers and family support workers who deliver Home-Start's unique brand of family support across a range of issues, offering both practical and emotional help to empower families to function more independently.

We operate and support families who reside or who have children going to school in Newcastle under Lyme. We support parents to meet their needs, which may vary depending on the individual and their household.

• Helping with boundaries and children’s behaviour.
• Helping their child socialise, attend early learning
• Helping them cope with their own physical health and mental health, and that of their child
• Reducing isolation
• Improving their self-esteem and confidence
• Managing their household budget, and reducing debt
• Running of the home, daily household tasks
• Family conflict, relationships
• Coping with multiple birth or young children
• Providing advice and guidance on what is available in their area
• Helping them engage in their local community activities and events
• Improving their child’s early development, language and communication skills
• Health eating, improving their child’s health and activity level.
• Helping parents with how to wean their baby.

Our service outcomes are to;

• Improve their confidence with parenting.

We provide a practical model of positive parenting skills and listen to their parenting concerns to problem solve together along with their family support volunteer. We assist families to have resilience building strategies easing families’ dependency on services.