Family Hubs Programme

Family hub Programme is a local offer to support all families in Haringey. The programme’s core aim is to improve family services particularly in area with the highest levels of deprivation and disproportionately poor health and education outcomes. 

A family hub is a system-wide model of providing high-quality, whole-family, joined up, family support services. This means that we aim to provide a universal front door to families, offering a ‘one-stop shop’ of family support services across social care, education, mental and physical health needs, with a comprehensive Start for Life offer for parents and babies at its core.

Family hubs deliver these family support services from pregnancy, through the child’s early years and later childhood, and into early adulthood until they reach the age of 19 (or up to 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities, SEND). 

Family hubs will deliver four core services:

• parenting support 
• parent-infant relationships and perinatal mental health support 
• early language and home learning environment
• infant feeding support

To support the design of hubs we will create 4 parent-carer groups and publish a 'Start for life' offer to show what is available for new and existing parents in Haringey.

Other services will be available from hubs and this will be communicated in the lead up to opening of our first hub at Triangle Children, Young People and Community Centre in June 2023.

For more information the delivery of this project, please visit:

• Family hubs and Start for life programme guide (external link)
• Family hub model framework (external link)

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• Who are family hubs for?
• Family hub locations
• Parent and carer events
• Partners and stakeholders events
• Project timeline
• Who is involved?
• Contact us

Who are family hubs for?

A Family hub supports families from conception, through the child’s early years and up to the age of 19 (or 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities).

Family hubs provide family support early, when families need it, providing universal and targeted services, and access to more intensive support.

Family hubs can support all families, but it is particularly important that they are designed to be accessible to families experiencing social or economic disadvantage or those from minority groups who experience inequalities and/or exclusion.

Family hub locations

We are planning to open 4 family hubs in locations across the borough with the first opening in June 2023 at Triangle Children, Young People & Community Centre.

Future needs and feedback from our communities will help us to select future hub locations.

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Parent, carer and young people events

We want to design a service that is suitable for our residents and most importantly for families. We will work with parents and carers to do so. In line with the Haringey Deal principles, we want to listen to our service users and find out what works and what doesn’t. 

Family Hubs and Start for Life – Online meetings: update and Q&A

Join us on our journey as we deliver four Family Hubs in Haringey before March 2025!

To keep you informed, we are hosting a series of online meetings with those leading the delivery of the programme. The meetings are free to attend, and you can book your place via Eventbrite:

• Tuesday 16 May - 6 to 7pm (external link)
• Tuesday 11 July - 6 to 7pm (external link)
• Tuesday 19 September -  6 to 7pm (external link)
• Tuesday 21 November -  6 to 7pm (external link)
   

Partners and stakeholder events

Family hubs is about a range of services coming together and delivering the best offer to our residents. We want to share best practice and ideas on how we will work together in the most effective way. 

The details of the next partners and stakeholders' engagement event will be available on this page soon. 

We are also in the process of engaging with the specific services on their delivery of the project and will post updates from those events on this page.

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Project timeline

1. Hubs 1 services developed - March 2023
2. Parent and carers panel established - March 2023
3. Hub target operating model – May 2023
4. Hub 1 digital offer – June 2023
5. Hub 1 opening – June 2023

Who is involved? 

We are working with senior leaders, managers and commissioners from our local health, social care, education and voluntary (VCS) organisations so that each family hub is designed to meet the needs of the local community.

The programme is being overseen by the Start Well Board, a multi-agency group of professionals which is chaired by the Director of Children's Services.

The family hubs oversight group, chaired by the Assistant Director of Early Years Help and the family hubs implementation group, chaired by Head of Service Early Help are responsible for the leadership and day to day management of the programme. 

Delivery of the work is being coordinated by our family hubs programme manager. 

Contact us 

We are in the process of working on delivering family hub 1, but if you have any ideas or questions, please contact us at familyhubs@haringey.gov.uk

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