Category

• Fully Validated and Adopted Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Prevention
• Mitigation

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Poverty driver

• Provide benefit in-kind (experience)

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Keywords

• Peer Support
• Maternity
• Child Wellbeing
• Parental Wellbeing
• Mental Health

Aim

For all children and families to be safe, happy, and thriving.

To ensure that all children have opportunities with the support of inclusive and engaging communities.

Summary

Home Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire (HSGNNL) provides practical and emotional support to families with at least one child under five. It aims to create long-term benefits for communities across the North of Glasgow and North Lanarkshire. HSGNNL recruits and trains volunteers to offer regular support that is tailored to individual family needs in their own home setting.
HSGNNL relies on a diverse network of collaborative partners to secure funds and draw from non-tangible resources and/or strengths, such as professional skillsets.

What difference does it make?

The project has made a positive difference to family wellbeing though its documented support of 192 families, 388 children and 132 groups in 2023 alone.

Key take-aways

• Strengthens important connections between family members (e.g., mother-daughter) and between child, family and community.
• Providing practical and flexible support for families that is tailored to their individual situations.
• Recognising struggles and oppressions leading to individual poverty.
• Supporting community action to minimise the effects of poverty.

 

Organisations

Home Start UK

Location

Glasgow (North) and North Lanarkshire.

Home Start Glasgow North West was founded in 2001 and was renamed Home Start Glasgow North in 2014 (following expansion into the north east of the city). A further extension (and name change) took place when work started in North Lanarkshire in 2017.

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