What is early help and family support?

If you are experiencing difficulties in your family or are worried about your children, there are people who can offer help and support.  Please see the web link below. 

Ready, Steady Worcestershire

The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme offers free holiday provision to children in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) and vulnerable families during Easter, summer and Christmas school holidays.

The HAF Programme funding has been extended to 2023 and Ready Steady Worcestershire has partnered with holiday clubs, schools and activity providers all over the county to offer fun, action packed school holiday periods with all activities offering healthy snacks, lunches and enriching activities.

To find out more please follow the link:

Starting Well Partnership in Worcestershire 

Please find attached a parenting booklet from the Starting Well Partnership in Worcestershire. This team supports families, parents, children and young people across Worcestershire to lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives.

The booklet contains helpful information about parenting groups and courses for parents.

Please also see www.startingwellworcs.nhs.uk for further information.

What is PACE?

PACE seeks to:

• Enable parents and carers to safeguard and stop their children being abused.
• Provide evidence and specialist advice in order to demonstrate to partners that parents and carers have an essential safeguarding role.
• Work with parents and partners to disrupt and bring perpetrators to justice.
• Influence national and local policy and practice to reflect the active safeguarding role of parents and the impact on families of child sexual exploitation.
• Sustain long term change by training partners in the active role of parents and carers safeguarding their children