Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed parental outreach in designs for new Best Start Family Hubs.

​​Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.

This is a central challenge and we are responding with new outreach funding and targeted test, learn and grow pilots to find what works.

​We have already seen early success in areas like Sheffield and Manchester, where we gathered good insight by testing and adapting outreach approaches focused on boosting take-up of support.

​Best Start Family Hubs will work with parent panels, voluntary sector partners, and local data to reach underserved groups, including fathers, minority ethnic communities, and young parents.

​The department is also investing in a new digital hub, linked with 'My Children' in the NHS App, to make it easier for all families to find trusted advice and book services.