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Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2026

Debate

Best Start Family Hubs

Contribution

The noble Baroness touches on an important point: we need to build on the good things from the Sure Start model and the good things that came out of the family hub model, bring them together and analyse the way forward. On working with parents, the model has proved that parents coming in will often get confidence from other parents in the hub helping them with support. Working with professional support in the hub, they can then be signposted to special services to give them the support they need. I cannot be more precise than that because things will develop in different ways in different areas, but there is a real determination to take advantage of all the cross-cutting themes that can come out of this. Parental relationships are one of those areas.

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