Luton's Family Hub
Luton’s Family Hub has been created using Government funding. The council is working in partnership with:
- Flying Start
- Early Years Alliance
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Luton and Dunstable Maternity Voices
- Family Partnership Services
- Luton Children and Family Service
- Luton Children and Adults Community Health Service Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS)
- Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Health and Care Partnership (BLMK HCP)
- East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)
- Active Luton/Total Wellbeing Luton
The Family Hub is a new government initiative providing support to families from conception until the age of 19 (or 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities - SEND). It aims to connect and enhance a range of services that support families, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it.
It will provide early help with:
- social
- emotional
- physical
- financial needs
And incorporates three key delivery principles: access, connection and relationships.
Luton’s Family Hubs is in the very early stages of development and will bring all children’s services in Luton together in one central place to make access easier for our families. Family services are being provided currently by our partners and eventually we will have a blended mix of physical and digital, with some online and interactive virtual services in the form of a mobile App and also physical face to face support, through Family Hub buildings and outreach services, to ensure that families can access support, all day every day in one form or another.
For more information please read the family hub leaflet
Our Partners and services they currently offer
Flying Start is a partnership approach to the delivery of services for families in Luton, with a focus on the antenatal period and the early years. The Early Years Alliance and partners, working alongside local communities and parents, are committed to delivering the Flying Start vision and strategy and supporting children to have a flying start in life. Find out more about what's on at Flying Start.
The Early Years Alliance is the largest and most representative early year’s membership organisation in England. A registered educational charity, representing 14,000 members, supporting them to deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year and offering information and advice.
Maternity Voices BLMK brings together families and health care professionals to improve maternity services for all.
View some short maternity videos which take you on a virtual tour of the maternity unit and give a summary of the services provided by the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital during the key stages of pregnancy.
Luton children's services. Children and Adults’ community health services for the residents of Luton. Community based health services are fundamental to the success of an NHS that gives people more choice and control over their health.
The Family Partnership service provides intensive support to Luton’s vulnerable children, young people and their families.
From providing social care to young people that need it, to safeguarding and protection, we have a range of children's services in Luton.
Healthier Together provides young people, parents and pregnant women across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes with consistent and high-quality advice on common childhood illnesses, where to seek help and how long symptoms are likely to last, from local health professionals.
Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Wellbeing Services provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services across Luton, Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire.
Community services include, Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) teams.
Active Luton/Total Wellbeing Luton takes a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, recognising that our lives are complex.
From working with people with a wide range of long term health conditions, to people living with stress, anxiety, depression or loneliness and isolation, to helping young people become more active and understand healthy nutrition, the wide range of healthy lifestyles programmes look to support, encourage and make a difference to health and wellbeing. Programmes are delivered across Luton and can be accessed through self- referral or referral from a health professional.