Instead of lugging babies, young children and all the paraphernalia associated with them on to a bus and trekking into town, parents in the Orchard Park and University wards of Hull will soon be in pram-pushing distance of a network of integrated family services.
They will be able to undertake training in new skills while their children are being cared for in the same building, or access housing advice before nipping to a Baby Gym session. Above all, help and information will be a stroll away in familiar and friendly surroundings.
McMillan Children's Centre is due to be fully operational in September this year. It will predominantly serve two large council estates in an area of high social disadvantage. The estates are characterised by high unemployment, a substantial number of single parent families and a very low ethnic mix.
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