Parenting and home learning environment

This research overview examines the evidence behind high-quality parenting interventions and home learning environments. Learn how decades of studies reveal that what parents do with their children outweighs what they have, providing the foundation for effective Family Hub practice.

This section brings together useful links to key documents, helpful websites, and recordings of previous webinars. It’s designed to give you quick access to practical guidance, further learning, and tools that support your work on this topic.

Middlesbrough’s Family Hubs are shaping a parenting offer that is easy to access, relational, and woven through day-to-day early years practice in the borough.

Liverpool City Council’s Parenting Team coordinated the expansion of the programme, working with schools, Family Hubs, children’s centres, prisons, and community organisations. Through coproduction, outreach, and targeted training, staff across the city were supported to become parent group facilitators, by training to deliver the 10-week group-based Programme.

Barnsley’s Family Hub network works across the borough to ensure families receive the right support in the right place at the right time. A central part of the Family Hubs offer is support for parents. The approach is rooted in the belief that stronger parent–child relationships lead to better outcomes for children, and that early support should be available in familiar, local settings, without judgement.

Supporting new and expectant parents as they make the transition into parenthood is crucial for providing babies with the best start in life. The Family Hub and Start for Life Programme in Wolverhampton includes various workstreams, all focused on providing supportive and inclusive parenting support and community outreach initiatives.

Warwickshire’s Family and Relationship Support team serves approximately 600,000 residents across 763 square miles and five districts/boroughs.