Reading Family Hubs: Under 5s
Formerly known as Reading Children’s Centres, our Reading Family Hubs Under 5s services welcome all families and provide a wide range of activities and support to give children the best start in life.
We offer:
- Early education integrated with childcare
- Free activities for babies and toddlers 0-5 years
- Child and family health services
- Family friendly support services
- Meet other parents and carers
- Community volunteering opportunities
- A journey to employment – support with work or training
- Register (free) by filling in the form at the bottom of this page.
For more information on activities and services in Reading for under 5s and their families, visit our Best Start in Life Reading Family Hubs website.
You can also find helpful advice and guidance, plus details of local and national services for families on the Reading Family Information Service (FIS) website.
Register with us for FREE
Register at your local Reading Family Hub.
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Look out for my messages on posters in family hubs across Reading.
See our annual parenting programme for activitiesplanned up to February 2027.
If you have any queries please email sue.blackwood@reading.gov.uk.
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Have a read of our children’s centre booklet for more details about what we offer.
If you need more information you can email the Family Hubs and someone will get back to you.
Follow Reading Family Hubs on Facebook for regular updates about what’s on offer for under 5s at Reading Family Hubs
Our teams
Family workers and family group workers offer support to meet individual family needs, this can be within the hubs or within family homes.
If you are looking for individual support within the home with one of our family workers, you can access this service via our Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA).
We offer a variety of support groups throughout the year; we aim to meet the needs within our communities for children 0–5 years old.
These sessions are designed to support your children with their development and to enable you to have the skills to positively parent your children.
You can join in with fun activities and find out about all the latest sessions we offer on our Facebook page.
Children’s Centres believe in working closely with community groups to help provide a wider service to the local community.
We pride ourselves on supporting volunteer groups to extended services to families.
This could include: working with volunteer groups such as Home Start, community volunteers who set groups up within our buildings such as Dad’s Club and supporting external community groups where needed.
In partnership with New Directions Reading, we offer various formal learning courses in english, maths and childcare plus informal bespoke courses, which can offer a stepping stone to future employment.
Within our formal offer, there is an opportunity to access our free crèche places for children aged 3 months to 5 years.
For more information, email us reading.childrencentres@reading.gov.uk