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Widowed dad accesses children’s centre services and learns about other local toddler groups and pre-schools, while increasing his child’s confidence.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreMum, 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.
Read MoreChildren’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.
Read MoreChildren’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.
Read MoreMum 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.
Read MoreChildren 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.
Read MoreParenting workshops give mum with history of domestic violence the confidence to set boundaries for her son, improving his behaviour, and enabling him to spend more hours at school.
Read MoreParenting workshops give mum with history of domestic violence the confidence to set boundaries for her son, improving his behaviour, and enabling him to spend more hours at school.
Read MoreAgencies work in partnership to set up and support a group for young parents at the local children’s centre.
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