Best Start Family Hubs
Our Best Start Family Hubs provide a wide range of information, activities and services in your local area including health, learning and play activities, childcare, family support, employment support, housing advice, money and benefits advice and much more.
We know that all families need support from time to time to look after their wellbeing and help their babies and children thrive.
Our Best Start Family Hubs are a place where families, friends and professionals can come together in a relaxed and friendly environment and support each other to achieve this.
Services provided at these hubs are in partnership with:
Best Start in Life
Best Start Family Hubs activities for children aged 0 to 5 are part of Best Start in Life, a government-funded programme supporting Waltham Forest's parents and carers with their children’s growth.
You can find Best Start in Life services in all four Best Start Family Hubs and other community spaces throughout every neighbourhood in the borough.
The following provision can be found at Best Start Family Hub: Leytonstone
- Play and learning activities
- Dads' Club
- Let's Create
- Play and Learn for Under-2s
- Play and Learn (0 to 4)
- Sensory Play and Learn
- Stories and Rhymes
- Tambini Music and Rhymes
- You and Your New Baby
- Health and wellbeing sessions
- Baby Massage
- Child Health Clinic
- Exploring Foods
- Eating Well
- Healthy Eating and Dental Health Drop-in
- HENRY Infant Feeding Group Session (women only)
- Initial Sleep Consultation (sleep support sessions)
- Oral Health Promotion
- Speech and Language Support Drop-in
- Family support
- Community Drop-in
- Flourish (post-natal support group)
- Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Drop-in
- Sessions for children with SEND
- Learning Together - Preschool