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Family Hubs: Parents

Asked by Tom HayesLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 10 September 2025UIN 72734

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed parental outreach in designs for new Best Start Family Hubs.

Answered by Josh MacAlister

​​Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.

This is a central challenge and we are responding with new outreach funding and targeted test, learn and grow pilots to find what works.

​We have already seen early success in areas like Sheffield and Manchester, where we gathered good insight by testing and adapting outreach approaches focused on boosting take-up of support.

​Best Start Family Hubs will work with parent panels, voluntary sector partners, and local data to reach underserved groups, including fathers, minority ethnic communities, and young parents.

​The department is also investing in a new digital hub, linked with 'My Children' in the NHS App, to make it easier for all families to find trusted advice and book services.

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