Lambeth’s network of children’s centres offer a wide range of activities, help and support for young children and their families.

These include health services like:
• ante-natal and post-natal care
• baby clinics
• groups to support breastfeeding and infant feeding
• support around children’s diet and nutrition.

Our speech and language therapists can support and guide you on children’s early communication and language skills, and some centres provide additional specialist support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Centres also offer lots of stay and play groups and activities for babies, toddlers and young children to attend with parents and carers.

There are lots of services for parents and carers too including:
• family learning courses
• parenting support groups
• ESOL classes
• support around training and employment.

You can get information about accessing benefits or dealing with housing difficulties from a skilled advisor, and the centre’s Better Start worker can give you additional help and support about a wide range of topics including parenting and child development, finding childcare, and signposting to other services that may support you or your child.

They will aim to provide this support as soon as you need it so that by the time your child is 5 years old they are happy, healthy and ready for school.

Some of the services are open to everyone with a child aged 0 to 4, and others are aimed at children of particular ages or particular groups. These might include dad groups, services to support young parents, or those for parents speaking English as an additional language.

Effra Early Years Centre,
35 Effra Parade,
London,SW2 1PL

02077338425

Information currently not available

Available from 13/08/2019 to 03/01/2020

Up to 5 years