Home-Start South and East Belfast

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow from our purposes include: • improved health outcomes and improved uptake of health appointments. • happier, safer children and happier safer homes. As a result fewer children suffer cruelty or maltreatment. • parents and children feel less marginalised. Families make better use of local services and are less

isolated and have wider horizons. Families are better able to cope with their needs. • families develop improved coping strategies and parents become more confident through increased education in childcare standards. All of these benefits are demonstrated by the completion of review visit forms which track an individual family’s “journey of change”. Also feedback questionnaires are completed by families and referrers at the close of support. The benefits of all our purposes are also demonstrated by regular evaluation of the services by Health and Social Care Trusts, funders and monitoring and evaluation of the service. The purposes do not give rise to any harm. A private benefit to volunteers may arise from our mandatory training in values and attitudes, safeguarding children, confidentiality etc. Through the training volunteers gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. A second private benefit to Trustees may arise from our programme of training in good governance, finance etc. Through the training trustees gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. These private benefits are relevant to all our purposes.

What your organisation does

Through the recruitment and training and management of Home-Visiting peer volunteers