How do Home-Start Portsmouth even know who needs help?
We find out about families needing a little extra help from all sorts of sources and we will only ever start working with a family if that’s what they would like; nobody has to have our support. Most referrers are health visitors as they see all families when babies are young but we accept referrals from anybody at all and lots of the families that we support have referred themselves by just calling up and asking for help.