What Family Hubs offer

Your family can get information, advice and guidance on subjects like:

• childcare and childcare support
• services that can support families with their finances
• local services for parents, young people and children

You can use our online Family Service Directory to search for services and childcare.

You can join groups and workshops including:

• early language and learning
• SEND support
• parenting and parental relationships
• physical and mental health

Some parenting groups are also available in Arabic and Bengali.

We can offer families who face more complex challenges intensive one-to-one support.

We look at the needs of the whole family and work with each member to help make positive changes. We can offer this support for a few weeks or up to a year. 

Midwives and the Healthy Child Programme which includes Health Visitors and School Nurses are based in Family Hubs. They provide a range of services from pregnancy to age 19. You can also get support to stop smoking and help with breastfeeding and infant feeding. 

We provide childcare and early education at the Family Hub nurseries and the Jeanne Saunders Centre for children with SEND. 

We provide free activities and food during the Easter, Summer and Winter school holidays. This programme is for school-age children from reception to year 11 who are eligible for benefit-related free-school meals. 

Find out more about the HAF programme. 

We work with youth providers to offer support, activities and services for young people. We also offer opportunities for young people to have a say in the way we run services and specialist support for young people in care. 

We can support young carers and their families with information, advice and guidance, one to one family support and assessments. More information is available on the Young carers website.

We can help parents and carers prepare for employment with support, training, volunteering and accessing childcare. We also offer careers advice, better-off calculations, CV writing and support to prepare for interviews.