Our work & impact

We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities across the UK. We represent the changing needs of all families, and work to ensure society understands the importance and power of family as the foundation for individual futures and resilient communities.

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Supporting children & families

We care deeply about the children of today, the adults of tomorrow and all of us here now; the children we were and the people we could be in future, with the right support. We are here for families, whatever they're going through.

Children & families

Adoption & special guardianship

We’re not a placement agency. That means we can offer independent, expert support through the realities of adoption, fostering, special guardianship and for those who have experienced state care systems.

Adoption & special guardianship

Providing food & hardship support

We support people in the face of an ongoing cost of living crisis. Our FOOD clubs help people in cities and towns across the UK to put food on the table and our direct grants, when needed, help people get back on their feet.

Food & financial hardship

SEND support

One of the largest providers of SENDIAS services in the UK, we support families and young people to understand their rights and get the help they need through advice, support and signposting.

Special educational needs & disabilities

Promoting health & wellbeing

From work with GPs to combat loneliness and isolation, to perinatal support, to counselling to overcome trauma and abuse, at Family Action we support the physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing of every family and community member.

Health & wellbeing

Our work with young people

As the adults of tomorrow, young people need our support for what they’re going through today. Through mentoring and family support, we help people work through whatever’s happened in the past and present, so they can start to look forward.

Young people

Our work in schools & education

The National School Breakfast Programme is our largest school provision, offering a tasty, nutritious breakfast to 350,000 children every year. We also provide behaviour outreach support to schools.

Schools & education

Developing skills & employability

From our HeadStart programme for young adults to the LifeSkills sessions in local communities, Family Action helps create opportunities for people to shape or reshape their futures for themselves.

Skills & employability

Find out how, together, we make a difference

When we have the support we need, we can shape or reshape our futures for ourselves. Family Action makes a difference because we understand the power of family, working with not ‘doing to’.

Our impact