Higher Broughton Sure Start Children's Centre
Higher Broughton Children’s Centre is now situated in the newly opened Broughton Community Hub building on Rigby Street, off Bury New Road, just behind the former Broughton library.
What we offer
We offer parents and children a wide range of services and activities including:
- adult learning classes
- babbling babies (speech and language development)
- baby massage and baby yoga
- Bookstart story times, which take place in the nearby library
- childcare for working parents
- family support
- free nursery education places for eligible children
- gym and swim for parents and tots in the swimming pool and fitness centre
- health visitor clinics
- healthy eating advice
- stay and play
The centre also works closely in partnership with the Orthodox Jewish community to provide culturally sensitive and accessible children’s centre services. Families from the Jewish community can access family support, play and learn, health visitor sessions and employment advice at the neighbouring Hershel Weiss Children and Family Centre and integrated childcare and early education provision for children aged up to four years at the independent Bnos Yisroel Primary School, which is also nearby.
The centre
As well as meeting rooms and other community facilities the children’s centre has a play room for parent and toddler groups and a multi-use community room for adult learning sessions and other activities. The building also houses a resource centre where parents can borrow toys, story sacks and children’s reading books.
The team
The centre has a small team of workers who organise stay and play sessions in the centre and provide services for any family with a child under the age of four that may require help, support or guidance on a range of matters, for example, welfare benefits, child behaviour, household routines etc. (referrals for this service can come from health workers and other professionals).
Health provision in the centre includes a regular well baby clinic offering baby weighing and immunisations by appointment and a monthly health visitor session offering developmental checks for two year olds. Staff in the children’s centre are trained in providing specialist help with speech and language and can deliver parenting support programmes. The centre also has close links with Jobcentre Plus and other local employment and training initiatives.
Who to contact
- Name
- Denise Jones (Centre Manager)
- Address
- 48-50 Rigby Street
Higher Broughton
Salford
M7 4BQ
Map to this location - Telephone
- 0161 778 0080
- higherbroughton.childrenscentre@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 6 February 2012
