We support any family that needs us as long as they have a child under the age of five. Home-Start UK was first founded in 1973 and we have been working in Wandsworth since 2010. As a parent or carer you might ask for help for all sorts of reasons, for example:
Isolation and loneliness
Post-natal illness
Ill health, disability or special needs
Lone parenting
Children’s behavioural problems
Multip
le births
Bereavement
How do I get help? You can contact us yourself or ask your Health Visitor, Social Worker or GP to refer you. After asking for our support you will meet with our co-ordinator who will carefully match you with one of our volunteers who will visit you for a couple of hours a week and offer both emotional support and practical help. Our page
We hope this page provides a friendly community for supporters to get involved, stay connected and feel valued. We promote transparent discussion and hope you will give us your true opinions. Home-Start supports thousands of vulnerable and fragile families and their well-being will always be paramount to us. With this in mind, we have put together some ‘house rules’ that we would like all users of our page to stick to. If you get involved with our page you agree not to:
• Disclose any contact details
• Swear or use offensive, abusive or blasphemous language
• Promote violence, illegal or unethical activities
• Make libellous or defamatory allegations
• Use racist or hate language against ethnic, religious or social groups
• Attack individuals
• Use our page to advertise products, events or your own agenda
• Go off the topic or make irrelevant comments
• Quote facts or phrases without a source
Home-Start will always engage and respond as openly and honestly as possible. However, if we feel any of the above rules are being broken we may delete or hide your comment. If you repeatedly go against these rules we will block you from our page.
*Supported Families, Volunteers and Home-Start Staff*
If you receive support from Home-Start or volunteer or work for us, please be particularly mindful of the comments you leave. This page is completely open to the public and can be read by anyone.
• Volunteers and staff must always protect the confidentiality of the families they support.
• Families should not refer to pending or on-going court cases, details of abuse (past or present), specific local authorities, organisations or social services you are involved with.
• Complaints, concerns or allegations should not be disclosed on this Facebook page; you should speak to a senior member of staff at the local Home-Start you are involved with and follow the existing procedure. Home-Start staff can find further guidance on their intranet. We hope you understand these rules are here to help everyone enjoy our page as much as possible and appreciate your co-operation and support. We suggest all users of our page get to know Facebook’s own terms and conditions: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php which will also apply. If you have any questions about this or anything on our page please email [email protected]. Thank you
Home-Start Wandsworth
