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Project supports the development of babies and children under four in Nottingham by combining universal and targeted services to drive systems change through bringing together statutory, voluntary and community providers with families to deliver better child outcomes.

Increased Small Steps at Home visits were linked to gains in fine motor skills

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Small Steps Big Changes (SSBC) is part of A Better Start Programme, a 10-year (2015-2025), £215 million initiative by The National Lottery Community Fund.

SSBC delivers its hallmark Family Mentor Service universally in four target Nottingham City wards. Co-designed with parents, the approach embodies the SSBC vision of ‘children at the heart, children leading the way, supported and guided by experts’.

Family mentors, a peer workforce with lived experience of parenting, are trained on-the-job by established community and voluntary sector partners. Mentors deliver the Small Steps at Home manualised programme of child development and preventative health support to parents through scheduled home visits.

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