Pregnancy: Who can help me as a practitioner? - Children's centres

Staffordshire Children’s Centres 

Children’s Centres across Staffordshire provide further information and sessions for parents to be and new parents and children. 

Each district offers and signposts to a variety of sessions and activities, these range from:

• Information and support for parents to be and new parents
  
  
• Sessions to support expectant parents (Bump to babies)
  
  
• Support groups and information session around life with a newborn. This includes breastfeeding support and baby massage. 

Activity timetable, links to individual Children’s Centre Facebook pages and Centre contact details can be accessed on  Staffordshire Connects Children’s Centres. Session prices and booking information will be displayed on our activity timetables.

Family Hubs

Staffordshire County Council has 8 Family Hubs to provide help for families across Staffordshire. 

The Family Hubs are open for support Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm

How can they help?

Families can contact their local Family Hub to:

• get information, advice and guidance
  
  
• get questions answered
  
  
• link in with local networks of support
  
  
• share ideas for coping with the changes in your lives
  
  
• access a variety of in-house support and projects which have been created by the Early Years Coordination team. This includes Family Hub Cooking, Family Craft Hub, Community Crates Fun and School Readiness.  

How to contact the Family Hub?

Contact details for your local family hub can be found on Staffordshire Connects Family Hubs. Please see Stoke on Trent Children’s Centres for more information on the Children’s Centre offer in this area.