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Get Support for Your Family

Home‑Start Shepway helps parents and children through life’s toughest times with compassionate, practical, and confidential support.

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Our Projects
We have a range of projects designed to support families with different needs. Each project offers tailored support, from help with parenting and children’s development to specialist support around domestic abuse and additional needs.

Project Restart
Project Restart provides structured, personalised support for families who need additional help beyond standard programmes. Support can include
one-to-one help in the home, guidance around children with additional needs, group sessions and practical strategies for everyday family life.

Project Empowerment
Project Empowerment supports mums with children under 8 who have experienced domestic abuse. Families can receive one-to-one practical and emotional
support, safety planning, wellbeing sessions and access to specialist programmes such as Phoenix.

Project Three & Thriving
Project Three & Thriving provides early intervention support for families with young children, focusing on emotional development, school readiness and
family resilience. Support is tailored to each family and can include group sessions, home-based support and practical parenting tools.

Who We Support

Families often reach us at a point when life feels
overwhelming from several directions.

This year, we’ve supported parents in those early years
navigating a mix of practical pressures, emotional strain,
and early years challenges that affect daily family life.
Most of the families we work with have children under eight,
and many are coping with poor mental health one of the
leading reasons for referral into our service.
A significant proportion live in the most deprived
neighbourhoods across Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh,
where financial insecurity, isolation and limited access to services compound everyday stress.

We are also seeing increasing numbers of children
with delayed speech, language or social development,
alongside parents who have very limited support networks or,
in some cases, no meaningful adult contact at all. This mirrors national evidence showing that only 37% of parents with
children under five often or always have meaningful social
contact a pattern strongly reflected in our local communities.

Together, these pressures create a landscape where
families need relational, consistent, and accessible support. Home‑Start Shepway is stepping into that gap,
offering the kind of early, trusted help that makes a
tangible difference to parents and young children.