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🔗 Hampshire Healthy Steps

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Barnardo’s and Hampshire County Council run the Hampshire Healthy Steps service to help families build healthier habits in response to rising local concerns about childhood obesity and low activity levels. The programme provides evidence based, family-focused support to improve nutrition, physical activity, sleep, oral health and overall wellbeing. Delivered by a dedicated family health coach in local community venues, the service aims to give children the tools to develop lifelong healthy routines and to offer flexible, practical guidance that strengthens family health and connects them to wider community support.

Meet the Family Health Coaches below⬇️

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Barnardo’s family Space is our virtual family hub offering information, advice and support for all stages of your parenting or caring journey.

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Being a parent or carer can be the most wonderful thing in the world and can bring so much love and joy into your life. We also know that the responsibility of parenthood and the daily challenges of this role can be as daunting as they can be exciting.

The Family Space is here for you. Our virtual family hub offers information, advice, guidance and support for all stages of your parenting or caring journey.

Our nationwide network of family hubs and children's centres provides services directly to parents and care givers of children of all ages. If you aren't able to get to a centre or hub, we hope you will find what you need here.

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Barnardo's Family Space is our virtual family hub offering information, advice and support for all stages of your parenting or caring journey.

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Hampshire Healthy Families is a partnership between Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Barnardo’s to deliver the healthy child programme across Hampshire.

We offer helpful, free advice and guidance for families with children aged 0 to 5 years old.

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Events, Courses & Workshops : Hampshire Healthy Families

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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Barnardos are working together to deliver the Healthy Child Programme throughout Hampshire. This website provides details for access to health visiting and school nursing services, workshops for healthy eating and support with post-natal depression.

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ChatHealth is a confidential text support service for parents, carers, families and young people in Hampshire manned by Southern Health health visitors and school nurses.

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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Barnardos are working together to deliver the Healthy Child Programme throughout Hampshire. This website provides details for access to health visiting and school nursing services, workshops for healthy eating and support with post-natal depression.

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Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

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Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

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CAMHS work together as a team to help young people and their families. Every clinician (someone who sees and treats patients) who works at CAMHS can provide high quality assessments and treatments (called ‘interventions’).

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Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are an NHS service that aims to help young people up to the age of 18 who are finding it…

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Hampshire County Council Children's Services

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Hampshire County Council Children's Services

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Explore services for children and families including:

childcare

early years education

adoption and fostering

safeguarding,

special needs and disabilities

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Get help to buy food and milk - The Healthy Start scheme

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Get help to buy food and milk - The Healthy Start scheme

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If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We’ll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks.

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What is Healthy Start?

If you're more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you're eligible, you'll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We'll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks.

You can use your card to buy:

plain liquid cow's milk

fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables

fresh, dried, and tinned pulses

infant formula milk based on cow's milk

You can also use your card to collect:

Healthy Start vitamins - these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding

vitamin drops for babies and young children - these are suitable from birth to 4 years old

If you live in Scotland

You can get help from Best Start Foods (opens in a new tab) instead.

Advice on healthy eating

For more advice on healthy eating, visit:

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If you're more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk. If you're eligible, you'll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops.

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To get support from Hampshire Youth Access, please fill in a referral form for either yourself or your young person.

What is a referral form?

It's a form we use to get you to the right people and get the right support. In the form, we'll ask you what you need help with, as well as asking for a few contact details so we can get in touch. Referral forms take no more than 15 minutes to fill in.

If you are a parent/carer, teacher, GP, Mental Health professional or other professional looking after the welfare of a young person, you can refer them to us through the Refer a Young Person form.

Important information - please read before making a referral

Please note that if you are referring a 5-10 year old in Hampshire, there is a three month waiting list.

When we get in touch, we may leave a voicemail. If you do not want a voicemail left when we try and contact you, please let us know in the referral form. When contacting to book a triage appointment we will send an email (or text if no email address is provided). Please check your spam folder for this email.

Referrals for 5-10 year olds in Southampton (SO14-SO19) will only be accepted from a GP, CAMHS or the NHS School Nursing team through Egress.

Referrals for 5-10 year olds in Portsmouth (PO1-PO6) will only be accepted from a social worker, GP, CAMHS or the NHS School Nursing team.

Re-referrals can only be accepted when 3 months following the last set of therapeutic support has passed. Therapeutic intervention requires elements of self-work, reflection and putting into practice any strategies taught during therapy.

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Get HelpTo get support from Hampshire Youth Access, please fill in a referral form for either yourself or your young person. What is a referral form? It's a form we use to get you to the right people and get the right support.

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"I have been working for Hampshire Healthy Steps since August 2025.

I am a qualified nursery nurse. Before working for Barnardo’s, I have previously worked as a nanny and childminder in several nursery settings, at the Toy Library and Children’s Centre and for the local authority as an assistant family support worker.

I really enjoy supporting families, sharing my knowledge, and offering guidance to help the families reach their best outcomes.

In my spare time, I enjoy walking and spending time with my family and friends."

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What do the Healthy Steps sessions cover?

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What do the Healthy Steps sessions cover?

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Across 6 sessions, we look at:

Week One: Warm Welcome - Getting to know each other and what to expect.

Week Two: Eat Well and Healthy Teeth - Fussy and selective eating and how you can encourage children to clean their teeth.

Week Three: Cook Well and Sleep Well - Portion sizes, recipe ideas and supporting sleep.

Week Four: Get Active and My Community - How can we move more and what your community has to offer your family.

Week Five: Reflection - What’s going well and next steps.

Week Six: Follow up one-to-one phone call

Throughout the session, our Family Health Couches support you to set small, achievable goals.

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The sessions are completely free, offering a welcoming environment to learn, connect, and grow as a family.

Our Family Healthy Coaches will work with you to set achievable, personalised goals that suit your family’s needs.

Participate in enjoyable, interactive activities that bring the whole family together while promoting healthy habits.

Walk away with easy-to-use tools, resources, and information to support your family’s well-being every day.

Get the chance to talk through any concerns with our experienced coaches and volunteers, who are here to guide you every step of the way.

Whether you want to improve family health, bond with your loved ones, or simply explore new ways to stay active and engaged together, Healthy Steps Family Sessions are the perfect opportunity to start!

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What are families saying about the sessions?

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What are families saying about the sessions?

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I went specifically to get some ideas to help with sleep, but it was so good to have little manageable weekly steps to take on everything else. Everything feels so much more positive and manageable now.