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be contacted on 0870 124 0866 Journalists can access stories via the Press Association wire service or online at: Find out about other community stories on: A family support charity has today called for greater levels of investment in volunteering to help support families in crisis. The paper also highlighted the benefits of volunteering to volunteers themselves, helping build their skills and confidence and offering a route into training and employment. Home-Start is the largest volunteer family support charity in the UK and enables 15,000 home-visiting volunteers to support more than 70,000 parents and children each year.
The charity’s volunteers aim to be parenting role models for families and they provide practical help and emotional support. They spend an average of four hours a week with the families they support helping parents build their parenting skills and their ability to cope with family life.