What will Coventry Best Start Family Hubs provide?
What will Coventry Best Start Family Hubs provide?
Best Start Family Hubs will offer:
- parenting and home learning environment support, including stay‑and‑play sessions
- early support for children with additional needs
- preventative and universal Healthy Babies provision including infant feeding, perinatal mental health, parent‑infant relationships, health visiting, maternity, safeguarding and SEND support
- engagement activities that build connections and trust such as coffee mornings, creative sessions and wellbeing activities
- connections to wider services including health and wellbeing support, safeguarding, cost‑of‑living assistance, wider family support and services for children aged 5+ and young people
- help for families to access support through on‑site family navigators and community outreach activity
Each Hub will bring core services together, tailoring support to local needs and making it easier for families to find the right help at the right time.
What will the Healthy Babies Programme provide?
Healthy Babies services will be at the heart of BSFHs and the wider Best Start network. They will strengthen delivery and integration across health and family services and will form a key part of the emerging Neighbourhood Health architecture. Healthy Babies services encompass the full range of statutory and non‑statutory support available to families from conception to age 2, including:
- infant feeding support
- perinatal mental health
- parent–infant relationship support
- health visiting
- maternity services
- safeguarding
- SEND support
Our wider service offer will include
Services for children aged 5+ and young people
- youth services - universal and targeted
- youth justice services
- school attendance
- Holiday Activities and Food
Health and wellbeing
- Health visiting (0 to 5)
- Public health (0 to 19)
- Mental health
- Maternity, midwifery and neonatal
- Nutrition and healthy growth
- Oral health improvement
- Screen time
- Smoking cessation
- Substance misuse support
- Vaccinations
Financial and other assistance
- Birth registration
- Debt advice, money and welfare advice
- Food support
- Fuel poverty
- Housing
- Parental leave and pay
- Social welfare advice services
Wider family support services
- Armed Forces families
- Children affected by parental imprisonment
- Reducing parental conflict
- Support for adoptive, kinship and foster families
- Support for separated and separating parents and/or carers
- Targeted family support - family help
Safeguarding
- Domestic abuse
- Tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation