Family Lives - Understanding children’s behaviour workshops
SEND Local Offer - SEND Surgery Drop-In Sessions
Advice, guidance and support for families with children and young people aged 0 - 25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Wednesday, 23 April
Redlees Play Centre, TW7 6DW
10am - 12pm
Friday, 16 May
Brentford Library, TW8 8DW
10am - 12pm
Wednesday, 18 June
Feltham Library, TW13 4GU
11.30am - 1.30pm
Thursday, 10 July
Lampton Family Hub, TW3 4JG
4pm - 6pm
Visit our website to check for updates or Email TheLocalOffer@hounslow.gov.uk
Family Hubs - Hounslow's Start for Life Offer
Our Start for Life Offer is a one stop shop to help families access essential support and services across the first 1,001 days with you and your baby – specifically, from the point of pregnancy until your baby is two years old. This is the most important time in a baby’s development.
Through Hounslow’s Start for Life Offer we hope that our families can access the support they need when they need it. Our offer is outlined in the following sections below, or you can download a PDF copy of the Start for Life Offer (639kb)
Let’s Talk Programme
Now open for referrals for April 2025 groups!
Let’s Talk is a free 11-week therapeutic concurrent group programme for children and mothers who have been affected by domestic abuse in Hounslow.
The children’s group supports children to process their experiences of domestic abuse through group discussions and activities. The mothers group enables mothers to understand the impact of domestic abuse on their children and how they can effectively support them.
Groups are offered to Infants (school year 1-3), Juniors ( school year 4-6) and teens (school years 7-8 or years 8-9).
Please complete the referral form attached for any mothers and children who would benefit from this support.
Do not submit referrals for victims/survivors who are: high risk, still live with the perpetrator or for children who are in proceedings to be removed from their mother’s care. The children have to be in a stable environment for the therapeutic work.
Please submit your referrals as soon as possible to avoid missing the intake for the April 2025 groups.
Please email the referral form or any questions to domesticabusessupport@hounslow.gov.uk
NCT
Hounslow parents can now access free infant feeding support
A Hounslow charity has launched a new peer support infant feeding service, free for all parents in the borough to access.
The NCT, the national charity for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood, launched a new free peer support service at the end of February to provide a judgement free space for parents needing support with feeding their baby.
The charity has been established in Hounslow for over 20 years, running four free drop in Baby Cafés led by trained NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors, which any parent or expectant parent can go along to for support with feeding their baby.
The new peer support service, funded by London Borough of Hounslow as part of the Family Hubs Start for Life project, will build on the service offered by the established Baby Cafés and will increase the number of parents supported across the Borough. Trained peer supporters will provide support, and evidence-based information in a more social setting.
Read more via leaflet.
For more information or to express an interest, email hounslowsupport@nct.org.uk.
Free online courses for parents, carers, and teens
Hounslow Family Hubs, in partnership with Solihull Approach, inourplace, and the NHS, are offering free online courses to support emotional health and wellbeing for families with children aged 0-19 years, or up to 25 years for children with SEND.
Designed by clinical psychologists, these courses help you better understand your child at every stage. The courses can be translated into 108 languages using the Google Translate widget, with some of the courses including voiceovers in languages such as Modern Standard Arabic and Urdu.
Use the code LBHPARENTS to register for courses through the inourplace website.
 Hounslow Family Information Service (FIS)
The Hounslow Family Information Service (FIS) is an information, advice and signposting service for parents, carers, young people and professionals who are looking for local support and services for children aged 0-19 years in Hounslow. We can help with information on Childcare, Early Education, Starting Nursery Class, Children’s Centres, Family Hubs, Activities and signposting to Family Support Services.
Ways to get in touch with the Family Information Service
Short Breaks Newsletter
Please find attached the Short Breaks newsletter. Please do pass it onto any families that may be interested.
Short Breaks is a service for young people with disabilities and/or SEN up to the age of 18. Families can self-refer or via a professional. All you need to do is call the team on 0208 583 3636 or email shortbreaks@hounslow.gov.uk. If you have any queries, please do get in touch.
Please share with your families.
Upcoming Parenting Programmes
Open for referrals for April and June 2025
Targeted Early Help & Intervention team have shared the details of the upcoming Spring/Summer parenting programs.
123 Magic is a parenting/behaviour management programme for parents and carers of children aged 2-12 who have been diagnosed with ADHD or who display challenging behaviour. It is a 5 week online programme.
The plan for 123 Magic is to be run on:
April 2025 cohort: 23 April 2025 to 21 May 2025 - Wednesdays 10am to 12pm
June 2025 cohort: 18 June 2025 to 16 July 2025 - Wednesdays 10am to 12pm
123 Magic referral form | 123 Magic flyer
Surviving Your Adolescents is a programme for parents of children over the age of 12 aimed at increasing the parents’ and carers’ ability to communicate with their young people and to reduce the risks that the young people face. It is a 5 week online programme.
The plan for Surviving Your Adolescents is to be run on:
May 2025 cohort: 1 May 2025 to 29 May 2025 - Wednesdays 6pm to 8pm
June 2025 cohort: 19 June 2025 to 17 July 2025 - Wednesdays 10am to 12pm
Surviving your Adolescents referral form | Surviving your Adolescents flyer
Please share with your professional network
Family Hubs
Three Family Hubs in Hounslow, Feltham, and Brentford are providing advice and support closer to home, for families with children aged 0-19, or up to 25 years old if they have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), from the Council and its partners.
Opening Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, these hubs will offer a range of joined-up services, focusing particularly on parenting support, infant feeding support, early language support and perinatal mental health support.
Hounslow families can also take part in free online resources developed by Family Hub in partnership with health experts. The Solihull Approach course is to nurture emotional health and wellbeing of children aged 0-19. The ’50 Things to Do before You’re Five’ website and mobile app is a menu of fun, affordable ideas for play and learning for parents and children aged 0-4.
To find out more about Family Hubs and locations, please visit www.hounslow.gov.uk/familyhubs or www.hounslowconnect.com/services/hounslows-family-hubs
Family Hub East: Brentford, North Road, Brentford, TW8 0BJ
Tel: 020 8583 5760
Family Hub West: Alf King, 7 Hanworth Road, Feltham, TW13 5AF
Tel: 020 8583 3922
Family Hub Central (Hanworth): Lampton, Neville Close, Hounslow, TW3 4JG
Tel: 020 8583 3720
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