Family Hubs

The government announced £500 million towards families and early years services with £82 million specifically for Family Hubs demonstrating their ongoing commitment. This follows their commitment in the 2019 manifesto.

Recently the DfE released the names of the first 75 Councils who will be the first to benefit from £302m funding to create the new Family Hubs that will provide services for children from birth to 19. £100m of the total funding will be available to roll out bespoke parent-infant relationship and perinatal mental health support, with 82m to create the network of family hubs, £50m to establish breastfeeding support services, £50m to fund evidence-based parenting programmes, £10m to be used to support local authorities to publish a clear "Start for Life offer" and a further £10m to be ringfenced for councils to trial innovative Start for Life workforce models.

There has also been a new very detailed national Supporting Families Outcome framework published. 

The agenda for Family Hubs is significant with many areas of government citing Family Hubs as a means to achieve policy objectives including Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) around parental conflict, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [DLUHC] around delivering the Supporting Families vision of an effective early help system, and of course Andrea Leadsom MP’s review of early child health. Children’s minister Will Quince  told the public services committee that it is his “ambition” for all councils move to the Family Hubs model.

Interface, being leaders in whole family working, integrated services etc. have supported many areas across the UK to design and deliver Family Hubs. Our work includes providing strategic support and challenge around leadership and governance, support with commissioning, sharing best practice across the UK and providing extensive training programs to over 12,800 practitioners. 

We are a key conduit for sharing best practice across the country and have links to 90% of local authorities and partners. 

Have a look in our:

• news section for updated news on Family Hubs
• resources section for useful tools, articles and publications
• training page for suitable training – specifically have a look at our Family hub training
• consultancy page for support options or just call us to chat through
• evaluation and service redesign pages 
• Case Studies for where have worked and how we have supported 

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