Research into charity Home Start’s volunteer programme showed parents who received the support demonstrated more positive changes in parental wellbeing, skills and behaviour than parents who had not had the intervention.
The supported children also demonstrated less anger issues and anxiety than children in two control groups, which included randomly selected families and those identified by the researchers as having “elevated parenting stress and [in need of] support”.
Home Start volunteers visit a family’s home for a few hours a week to help them with whatever challenges they face. These might include planning budgets, supporting mothers through postnatal depression, or taking children out of the house when parents need a break.
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