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Home-Start Central Lancashire

There for parents when they need us most,
because childhood can't wait

Home-Start has developed the unique Big Hopes Big Future programme in England to work directly with parents and children and help them to build the skills they need to be ready for the first day of school.

Around 600,000 five year olds start school for the first time each September, yet a recent study estimated that almost half will not be ready for education.

The result is that teachers are spending increasing amounts of time and resources helping children who do not have basic skills such as being able to hold a pencil, recognising their name when it’s written down or who are not toilet trained.

 Big Hopes Big Future trains Home-Start’s volunteers to use original, specially produced materials for working directly with the young children in the families they are supporting. They help develop reading, writing, numeracy and understanding of the routines of the school day.

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