Spotlight on: Home-Start Arun, Worthing & Adur

Report - 9 October 2019

Home-Start is the local charity supporting families with children under 5. The Charity helps parents through their most difficult times by matching a trained volunteer with each family and working with them 1-2-1 to make life better.

Home-Start works with families who are struggling with issues such as family breakdown, bereavement, illness, mental health, isolation and low confidence.

Volunteers and staff provide emotional and practical support to enable the children to have the best start in life with their parents at home.

In January 2019 a survey was sent to 76 staff, volunteers and supported families by Home- Start Arun, Worthing and Adur, 48 responses were received.

As a follow up in February 2019 we held a small focus group to allow us to explore issues in more detail. The insight from this study was collated and anonymised and forms part of the insight and evidence that Healthwatch gather to identify common themes around what works and doesn’t work for young people living with mental health issues.