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REFERRING A FAMILY
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help of a Home-Start Bexley volunteer are usually referred by Health Visitors, Social
Workers, Medical Social Workers, Community Psychiatric Nurses, GP’s, Psychiatrists,
Church Ministers, Relatives, Friends and Voluntary Organisations. Sometimes parents themselves seek help.
Standard referral forms
are available on request by contacting Home-Start Bexley by calling Lisa on:
020 8302 8119 or
e-mail lisa@homestartbexley.freeserve.co.uk
The form should be
completed and returned to the Home-Start office. Each referral will be followed up
by an assessment home visit by a Co-ordinator. |
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Reasons for referrals
The reasons
for referral are as diverse as the families visited but broadly fall under the following
headings: |
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 | Loneliness and isolation
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| Postnatal
depression
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| Breakdown
of relationships
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| Loss
of job or home
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| Bereavement
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| Child
with disabilities or special needs
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| Parent
with physical or mental illness
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| Multiple
births
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| Lack
of appropriate parenting skills
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| Financial
difficulties
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| Lone
parent
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| On occasions a referral is received as a
result of physical violence within the family home.
Home-Start Bexley is unable to accept such referrals if the perpetrator of the
violence remains in the family home. However,
if the individual responsible for the violent acts has been removed or has voluntarily
left the family home the referral can usually be accepted. |
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