Family Hubs & Community Spokes
Walsall’s 4 Locality Family Hubs provide a welcoming space where children, young people aged 0-19 and up to 25 for those young people with additional needs and their families can go to get advice and support when they need it, our Family Hubs are in the heart of local communities where services have come together providing one ‘front door’ access to get help and to talk to someone in a safe space about sensitive things that maybe worrying them.
Services who have come together include Midwives, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Speech & Language Early Help, Children’s Social Care , DWP Housing and Police.
Examples of advice and services available
- For expectant or new parents or those with young babies and infants you can get advice and support on a range of topics including feeding, sleeping, parenting advice, managing your own wellbeing and advice on a range of family health activities including baby wellbeing clinics, ideas on well-being things to do and how to positively interact with your children, take up the opportunity to join groups of other parents and carers to support each other and take part in activities such as Look, Say, Sing, Play or First Words Together.
- For all families you can get advice on parenting, child development, support for children who have additional needs or advice for yourself on employment, further education, work experience or volunteering opportunities as well as housing or finances.
- For young people you can get advice on ‘what’s on in your area’, advice if you are worried about home life, school life, want advice about staying safe or worried about a member of your family or a friend.
For the wider community-based Family Hubs known as the’ Community Spokes’
We are working with the voluntary and community sector to secure Community Spokes attached to Family Hubs, the spokes will offer advice on a range of local community activities for families, children and young people, provide a space for local families to come together, for services to deliver group work or meet on a 121 basis with families, to provide sessions such as play and stay, baby weighing clinics, digital support services as well as providing foodbanks etc. The spokes will be confirmed shortly.
Help us shape the future of our Family Hubs
Our offer continues to grow and develop across Walsall, we would like your help in shaping this further together. Please speak to someone in your local Family Hub to see how you can get involved and become a member of the parent/carer’s panels, we are committed to working together and we need your help.
Where are our Family Hubs?
North Locality Family Hub
Address: 275 Blakenall Lane, Blakenall, Walsall WS3 1HJ
Telephone: 01922 654589
Opening times: 9.00am – 5.00pm
West Locality Family Hub
Address: Ilmington House, Crescent Road, Wednesbury, WS10 8AE
Telephone: 01922 652959
Opening times: 9.00am – 5.00pm
South and Central Locality Family Hub
Address: Birchills Street, Walsall, WS2 8N
Telephone: 01922 654545
Opening times: 9.00am – 5.00pm
East Locality Family Hub
Address: Silver Court, Walsall, WS8 6HA
Telephone: 01922 658300
Opening times: 9.00am – 5.00pm
