School-Home Support (SHS) is a charity working with children and families to maximise educational opportunities and improve life chances. Partnering with schools, local authorities and families, SHS looks beyond the classroom to understand and tackle the issues affecting children’s learning, such as housing, poverty and mental ill health. Since 1984, we have used early intervention to break intergenerational cycles of deprivation and low aspiration, replacing them with children in school and ready to learn.

The biggest influence on a child’s life is their experiences at home. SHS works with families to address a variety of issues, including mental and physical health needs, insecure housing, domestic violence and poverty. Without this support children are much less likely to be in school, ready to learn.

All of our services are designed to support families to overcome these issues as soon as possible. By intervening early we give children the chance to maximise the opportunities available to them.

We help with: school attendance, behaviour, parental engagement, complex needs, transition and emotional/mental health. We provide a fully managed SHS Practitioner service for schools, as well as an SHS Membership which offers training and support for non-SHS school staff.