Home-Start
Sheffield

Phone us: 0114 2788377    Free Info Line: 0800 068 6338

What we can do

We have expertise in

• Supporting parents to build attachments with their babies and encouraging early learning
• Helping mothers with Post natal depression
• Recruiting and supporting volunteers
• Safeguarding children and multi agency working

Families' stories are available from our office, simply contact ellens@hssheffield.org.uk. Home-Start runs more services and has more volunteers supporting more families than any other family support charity in the UK. More information on our background and services is on the About us page.

Some of our families are happy to be photographed (see media policy below). We also have a range of generic, high quality photographs of families that we use for publicity.

Our experts

We welcome media contact and our experts will make themselves available to speak on their specialist areas. Home-Start experts can be contacted on 0114 2788377.

• Tabitha Sutcliffe/Michelle Buckley - Early Attachment and Bonding. Responsible for running Baby's First Year/Early days - both unique projects in Sheffield developing the attachment and bonding between mum and baby during a baby's first year of life.
• Karen Minors - Child Development: Responsible for delivering Parents as First Teachers: helping children meet their developmental milestones through monthly visits to help families be their child's first teachers, through play (only project in the North of England.)
• Joanne Glen - Post Natal Depression: offering practical and emotional support to mums diagnosed with post natal depression, one to one home visiting and weekly group support.
• Sara McClean - Safeguarding and multi-agency working.

Media Policy - Consent and Confidentiality

Home-Start Sheffield has a duty to protect both family and volunteer confidentiality. We cannot give out any information that will lead to the identification of a family or volunteer without their informed consent.

Consent is usually sought by the co-ordinator working with that family or volunteer as they have already established a relationship. The Manager or Senior Co-ordinator will be involved in this process and will provide the appropriate media consent forms for the family or volunteer to sign.

Recent media coverage

 Julie Dore praises the work of Home-Start Sheffield , The Sheffield Star, 11th October 2011

Start Up Guide for Parents. Family Matters feature, The Sheffield Star 22nd September 2011.

The Stanage Stumble, our annual sponsored walk. The Sheffield Star 3rd May 2011

Family Matters Feature. The Sheffield Star, 31st March 2011

Parenting lifeline on a knife-edge. The Sheffield Star, 6 January 2011, 2 page article by Jo Davidson

I would have struggled without Home-Start. It was really nice to be able to hoover without my little girl round my ankles while my volunteer coloured with her! Just little things make a big difference!

Caroline, a Home-Start Parent