Guidance

Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies: guidance for local authorities

How local authorities in England can prepare to run the Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies programme.

• From: Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 4 December 2025

Applies to England

Documents

Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies – preparing for implementation April 2026

PDF, 493 KB, 18 pages

Details

Guidance to help all local authorities prepare for provision of Best Start Family Hubs from April 2026.

It provides:

• a framework to help identify appropriate Best Start Family Hub sites - including prioritising access to disadvantaged families
• an outline of the core services expected to be available in Best Start Family Hubs
• information on branding and naming conventions
• information on Best Start local plans including the interaction with:
  • Best Start Family Hubs funding
  • Neighbourhood Health plans

Published 4 December 2025