Catherine Holloran and her family have lost £200 a month in child tax credit and have had child benefit frozen for the last two years.

After the birth of their son now aged 3, Shalini and her husband both reduced the hours they worked in order to care for him.

Widowed dad accesses children’s centre services and learns about other local toddler groups and pre-schools, while increasing his child’s confidence.

A children’s centre responds to a foster carer request for baby massage classes for a baby of parents with drug and alcohol issues who is struggling to settle.

Mum, ashamed of son’s disruptive behaviour, is disconnected from him. She is new to the area and feeling low. Through attending a group that both she and her son enjoy, and doing some adult learning, she increases her confidence and her son adjusts well.

A family must deal with an older son's theft and drug use and a young daughter's aggressive behaviour thought to be the result of inconsistent parenting.

Children’s centre and library work together to support and run sessions for dads, increasing attendance at baby and toddler rhyme time and loans of books.

Children’s centre works in partnership with other agencies to support mum through alcohol misuse, housing issues and relationship breakdown. The children are supported to settle in new area and mum becomes less anxious and ready to attend back-to-work training.

Mum becomes training facilitator after enthusiastically attending a healthy lifestyles MEND 2-4 course at her local children’s centre and getting her son to start eating vegetables.

Children struggling with their parents’ separation benefit from agencies (such as their rural school, children’s centre, and families and schools together team) and their parents working together to support them.