Children’s 0-5 Services in Waltham Forest

Health Visitors can be contacted by ringing: 020 8928 2468 Your health visitor can offer you confidential advice in your own home or at the surgery on all aspects of health for all groups, in particular expectant mothers and small children.

Events in Waltham Forest:

For a range of Local Events including play sessions please visit:

https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/events

Children and Family Centre Hub September – December 2024

0-19 Partnership:

Antenatal Contact between 28-40 weeks
- Introduction to service
- Preparation for Parenthood
- Health Promotion
- Feeding
- Sleeping
- Assessment of maternal mood

New Birth between 10 – 14 days
- Assessment of Child Health and Family Needs

6 to 8 week Postnatal Contact
- Review of Child and Family Needs

Healthy Child Clinic
- Drop in clinic at the 4 Family Hubs all open 9 – 5, Monday – Friday

Leytonstone – 2-8 Cathall Road, E11 4LF

Leyton – 215 Queens Road, E17 8PJ

Chingford – 5 Oaks Grove, E4 6EY

Walthamstow – 313 Billet Road, E17 5PX

Health Reviews
- 12-15 months
- 24-30 months

School Nursing
- Universal screening of vision and hearing in Reception
- Height and Weight measurements in Reception and Year 6
- They will support children managing health conditions in School

HENRY Best Start Service

Infant Feeding
- Infant Feeding Helpline

Tel: 02079619073

9 – 5 Monday – Friday, 9 – 2 Saturday

Early Infant Team (Whipps Cross Hospital) delivering weekly Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
Infant Feeding Practitioners can support with: Breastfeeding, Bottle feeding, Expressing and Mixed feeding.

Healthy Eating & Oral Health
- Drop in clinic
- Workshops: Starting solids, Healthy Teeth, Eating well for less
- 8 week Healthy Families Right from the Start programme

Buddies Wellbeing Service
- Phone support service for local parents and carers
- A listening ear for new and expectant parents and carers
- Calls are flexible to fit around family life

Early Help Family Support

The Early Help Service works in partnership with other professionals, parents and carers to intervene early in a child’s life to ensure that children have the best start in life. The aim is to address problems at the earliest opportunity – before they can escalate – and to enable families to support their children to reach their full potential.

Early intervention may occur at any point in a child or young person’s life. Early Help supports families with children and young people aged 0 to 18 and up to 25 with a disability.