Family Lives Kensington and Chelsea Outreach Services: ParentChild+

What is ParentChild+? 

ParentChild+ is our early learning programme to support families to improve their home learning environment so children are ready for school. Contact is intensive, twice weekly with a home visit and a group session at a Family Hub venue. 

This highly successful programme has been delivered in the USA for over 50 years. Children who have been through this programme:

• are 50% more likely to measure ready for school
• enter school performing 10 months above their chronological age

How does it work?

Our Early Years Home Visitors visit families for half an hour, twice a week using educational toys, books and games to help a child learn and develop. The programme lasts for 9 months with 74 visits  We work alongside parents to demonstrate how to increase verbal and non-verbal interactions, develop positive behaviours and encourage early literacy skills. Parents learn how to become their child’s first teacher; children are then ready for school and do well in their education, which sets them up for positive futures. 

Early Learning Home visitors take either a free toy, book or make a home made activity each week, Early Learning home visitors model with parents how to play and read with their child.

Our ParentChild+ Programme helps parents get their children ready for school, ready to learn and ready to shine. If you live in Westminster or Kensington & Chelsea, and are worried about your child's communication and social skills, we can help you too.

• Free programme for children aged 18 months to 2 and a half years old
• Weekly 30 minute sessions at home
• Weekly group sessions with other parents and children
• Free toys, books and games

We are accepting referrals for families where:

• The child has had a 2 year Health Review and the ASQ scores identified a development delay i.e. speech and language, social-emotional delays
• Parents express concern about their child’s development prior to their 2 year Health Review
• The family is eligible for, but not taking up the free 2 year nursery offer

Areas we cover in RBKC are Dalgarno, Colville, St. Helen’s, Golborne, Notting Dale and Earls Court

Please use the following online form: ParentChild+ Referral Form (office.com)

For further information, please contact the programme coordinator Anamaria Vasile on [email protected]  or call Mobile: 07860 184906