About us

Home-Start believes that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents play the key role in giving their children a good start in life and helping them achieve their full potential.

What Home-Start Wirral offers

  • A volunteer with parenting experience to visit parents with young children at home. The volunteer offers tailor-made one-to-one support, regularly - usually on a weekly basis.
  • Emotional support to help parents find ways to manage and resolve problems.
  • Direct support for children including playing, listening, having fun, establishing routines, encouraging development and providing opportunities for outings and treats.
  • Practical help with getting to appointments, doing the shopping, budgeting, nutrition and meal planning, cooking and making the home safe.
  • Breastfeeding Peer Support
  • Information and links to other organisations including health and educational services. 

The Home-Start approach

The support offered to families is free and confidential. Being a parent, wherever you live or whatever the situation, is not easy. Many parents feel exhausted and overwhelmed by the stresses of family life, especially with under 5's. It is even more difficult if family and friends are unable to offer support and a breathing space when you most need them. Some parents lose confidence in their ability to cope and most can remember days when they would really have liked someone to turn to for reassurance. Everybody needs a hand sometimes and Home-Start can be a lifeline to parents just when it is needed most.

Our Misson

Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train volunteers, who are parents themselves, to visit families at home and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support. The families we support have at least one child under 5.

To help give children the best possible start in life, Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationship with their children and widen their links with the local community.

Our Vision

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.

 

Facts and Figures

Home-Start Wirral was launched in January 2000, and now covers the whole of Wirral.  It is one of many  schemes providing a lifeline to thousands of parents and children in 334 communities across the UK and forces families in Germany and Cyprus.