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Supporting Families Across TorbayHomestart Torbay - Office Address1st Floor62 Hyde RoadPaigntonTQ4 5BYHome-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children throughout the Torbay area.Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train volunteers who are usually parents themselves and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.We help to increase the confidence and independence of families by:* Visiting families in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistanceOur volunteers, who have parenting experience themselves, can offer:* Precious time for listening and talking* Help with the childrenParents ask for Home-Start's help for all sorts of reasons:* They may feel isolated in their community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends* They may be finding it hard to cope because of their own or a child's physical or mental illness