A NEW report by Action for Children is warning of a growing crisis facing support services for families.
The findings suggest that more than four in five parents of young children in the south west have been unable or are struggling to access vital early years support for their child, despite needing help.
Early years services include essential non-childcare programmes to support children’s education and development, child-parent relationships or extra support for parent or child mental health.
These services also allow professionals to identify and help families who may be in particular need of early intervention.
Action for Children says that 23 per cent of parents in the south west are likely to have struggled to access more than five of these services.
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