Balancing parenthood, work, money, and the other demands of life can be difficult. Find out where you can access support and advice that will help you and your family thrive.
Family support
Our Early Help Family Support Practitioners can help you tackle issues that are having an impact on the family. This includes issues of mental health, parental separation and conflict, substance misuse, domestic violence or housing and financial struggles.
Community and Voluntary Sector
Find local organisations for activities, advice and support.
Free online courses
Solihull Approach
Solihull Approach online courses are designed by experts and informed by firsthand experiences from parents. They offer practical guidance through every stage of your child's life.
They are quick - completing them takes 15 minutes or less.
You can use our free access code HERITAGE to register and complete the courses.
Solihull Approach workshops: facilitated by Barnardos
Two hour weekly online workshops. Topics include, your pregnancy journey, feeding, developing a healthy sleep routine, and your baby’s brain development.
Reducing parental conflict
Learn new techniques to improve communication, handle stress and manage conflict.
Register for a free account by clicking ‘London region’ and ‘Hackney’ as your local authority.
Check out our other resources for reducing parental conflict.
- Getting it right for children - a free online course designed to help you parent co-operatively
- Debt and relationships - online materials to help you with debt and the impact it has
on your relationships - Arguing better - a free online course to help you manage difficult conversations, avoid conflict, and improve things for your whole family
- Me, you and baby too - a free online course that can help expectant parents navigate changes
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities
For parents and carers of children aged 2-18 years.
Learn how experiences, values and culture play a part in how we parent our children and how to support children and manage behaviour through different transition stages in their life.
Contact your nearest Children & Family Hub for details about upcoming sessions.
Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities
Parenting specialists can empower you to better understand and manage your children’s needs, as well as provide strategies and methods to cope with parenting, family resilience, and challenges.
For further details contact EPEC.Hackney@nct.org.uk.
Father Friendly Borough
Workshops and support groups for fathers, fathers to be, and father figures.
Video interaction guidance
We’ll use footage of you interacting with your baby to help you build on your strengths and become a more confident parent and understand your baby's cues.
- Read the video interaction guidance brochure
- Read the video interaction guidance flyer
- Contact your local Children and Family Hub for more information
Relationships
HENRY
HENRY provides a wide range of support for families, including workshops, 1:1 peer support in pregnancy programmes, resources and online help.
Every term HENRY run workshops on the following topics:
- Becoming a new family
- What's in our food?
- Eat well for less
- Fussy eating
- Portion sizes
- Healthy food swaps
- Healthy drinks for young children
- Starting solids
To find out more about the workshops, including times and dates, please contact your nearest Children and Family Hub.