Professional’s Guide to Family Hub Services

Parenting Support for All
We have a range of support available to help parents/carers meet the challenges from pregnancy all the way through to adulthood. All our courses, workshops and play sessions are FREE and open to all.

Evidence Based Interventions
We deliver evidence-based parenting programmes to enhance parents’ and carers’ understanding of strategies that strengthen family relationships.
Our courses are available face to face in our centres or online via Teams and cover all ages and stages of development. Find out more about our courses here
If the family you are working with would like a centre based/virtual programme to meet their needs, you can apply using our Application for Evidence Based Parenting Programmes

Home Learning Environment
Providing accessible opportunities for parents to receive informal advice, guidance, and support on enhancing the home learning environment and signing up to courses and workshops, including in centres, through clinics, play sessions, the website, social media.
We work collaboratively with speech and language, health and education partners to identify additional support needs early and provide timely intervention, including access to the Early Language Identification Measure to assess language and communication needs at an early stage

Healthy Babies Wellbeing Team
The Healthy Babies Wellbeing Team is a targeted service, offering evidence-based interventions and tailored support plans to families from conception to 2 years. The focus is on improving infant mental health and wellbeing by strengthening existing skills and improving the parent- infant relationship. In turn promoting secure bonding, attachment and responsive caregiving.

Intensive Family Support (Early Help)
If you are working with a family and identify they would benefit from support from a range of services, Early Help is a great way of taking a co-ordinated, robust and well-planned approach to promote sustained and positive changes to family life. We can offer Intensive whole family support to families who are eligible, for up to 9 months. Families must have a whole family assessment such as a single agency assessment (Tier 2) and Targeted Early Help assessment (Tier 3) or a child and family assessment.

The service is an Early Help Service and as such we are unable to work with families who are open to social care, however we can work with families as part of their step down from social care or they can access our parenting programmes.
We work in an outcome focused strengths-based way with the whole family to support them to make positive changes within their family.
To be eligible families must also have identified needs in three or more areas.
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Support for Young Carers
To be eligible to be registered as a Young Carer and access the Isle of Wight Young carers service, the young person must be aged 5 to 18 years and live on the Isle of Wight.
The young person must provide regular care for someone who lives permanently in their household.

Support is available via Activities and outings to give a break from caring responsibilities; One-to-one support to Young Carers who have complex needs; Work with schools on how to support Young Carers and their families; Signposting to other support services; Support for a Young Carer’s transition to being a Young Adult Carer.
Find out more about our offer here

Barnardo’s Pop in Chat and Information Sessions
Open for parents and carers (including those expecting a baby) to pop in to chat with our team and find out about support and services available.
At a pop-in, families can find out about our programmes and workshops, we can also refer and signpost to different family services.
We have breastfeeding support and visiting organisations at select pop-in sessions, which include Isle of Wight Youth Trust, Department for Work and Pensions(DWP) and Thrive Tribe - Smoke Free island.

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Parents and carers can go directly to our Eventbrite page where they can book onto:

Professional’s Guide to Family Hub Services

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