About us

Home-Start wants to see a society in which all parents have the support they need to give their children the best start in life.

Parents value the help, support, guidance and feedback they get from non-advice experts including their peers.

What Home-Start Rotherham offers

  • A volunteer with parenting experience - to visit parents with young children at home on a regular basis usually once a week
  • Emotional support - to help parents find ways to manage and resolve problems
  • Direct support for children - including playing, listening, having fun, establishing routines, encouraging developing and providing opportunities for outings and treats
  • Practical help - with getting to appointments, budgeting, meal planning, nutrition, making the home safe
  • Outreach and family groups - supporting parents to meet other parents, become involved in the community
  • Information and links - to other organisations including health and educational services.
  • Attendance at meetings and moral support - especially in relation to dealing with case conferences or solicitors and court cases.
  • Access to parenting advice and parenting skills training.

The Home-Start approach

Home-Start schemes are rooted in the community they serve.

We are managed locally but are supported by a national organisation, Home-Start UK, which offers direction, training, information and guidance to schemes and ensures consistency and quality for parents and children.

Home-Start has a proven, lasting, positive impact on the development of children and the health and welfare of the family.

Home-Start volunteers DO WITH the families NOT TO or FOR the families.

Facts and figures

Home-Start Rotherham was launched in 1987 and is one of over 330 Home-Start schemes in the UK.

We cover the whole of Rotherham Borough, that's 118 square miles.

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