Lancashire County Council is opening family hubs in Fylde, Preston, Chorley, Pendle, Wyre, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Burnley, West Lancs, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, and South Ribble
A dozen specialist centres that will bring together a raft of services for children and their families are opening across Lancashire this week. Lancashire County Council says that its network of “family hubs” have been designed as one-stop-shops to provide support for young people and their parents or carers at every stage of maternity, childhood and adolescence.
“I think it’s about improving connections [and] building on the relationships that we have with families from the very early days – and hopefully that carries them through the life of their family as [their] children grow and needs change,” Katherine Ashworth, Lancashire County Council’s head of service for early help, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service .
Katherine added: “This is an evolution for us in the sense that it’s building on the strengths of the services that we have in Lancashire…[and] knitting things together more intrinsically – so that services become more visible to the families that need them. The hubs, which will operate from existing family wellbeing bases operated by the county council, will each have unique elements to them – because they will also be harnessing the power of the many voluntary groups that can be found in different corners of the county.
County Hall also rejects the suggestion that the creation of the hubs is a reversal of a policy implemented in 2019 that led to the closure of almost 20 of its then more than 75 children and family wellbeing centres amidst what was presented at the time as a move to delivering services to families in their own homes rather than central locations.
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