{"id":16,"date":"2015-11-05T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:16:02","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What does Home Link Do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Home Link Service offers support to children and families throughout Renfrewshire through their <strong>Early Years<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Primary<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Secondary<\/strong>\u00a0school years.<\/p>\n<p>Primary School Support:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/about-us\/primary-school\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140719\/Primary-School.png\" data-orig-size=\"1260,891\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Primary School\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140719\/Primary-School-300x212.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140719\/Primary-School-1024x724.png\" 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data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/about-us\/secondary-school\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School.png\" data-orig-size=\"1260,891\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Secondary School\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-300x212.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-1024x724.png\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-222\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/homelink\/uploads\/sites\/2394\/2023\/02\/22140723\/Secondary-School.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>How can Home Link staff help children and young\u00a0people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Children may need support for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n<p>*Changes at home such as bereavement, ill health or family break up.<\/p>\n<p>*Difficulties with friendships or other issues within the school\/early years setting.<\/p>\n<p>*Transition from early years to primary school, primary to secondary school and when leaving school.<\/p>\n<p>*Support to manage emotions and distressed behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>*To improve their achievement and attendance at school.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Support can be given one to one or in a group.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>How can Home\u00a0Link staff\u00a0help parents?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Parents are the most important people in a child\u2019s life and Home Link staff are committed to working in partnership with parents to make sure that children achieve as much as they can at school and beyond.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Sometimes parents or children feel more comfortable meeting in their own home.\u00a0 Home Link staff are happy to visit parents at home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Being a parent is very rewarding but it can be challenging.\u00a0 Parents might welcome some tips on how to manage children\u2019s emotions or behaviour.\u00a0 Home Link staff can offer support on a one to one basis or in a parents\u2019 group.\u00a0 There are a variety of parenting programmes on offer and Home Link staff can also put parents and young people in touch with other services such as counselling , benefits advice and local activity groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Home Link Do? The Home Link Service offers support to children and families throughout Renfrewshire through their Early Years,\u00a0Primary\u00a0and\u00a0Secondary\u00a0school years. Primary School Support: Secondary School Support: How can Home Link staff help children and young\u00a0people? Children may need support for a variety of reasons: *Changes at home such as bereavement, ill health or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What do we do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/homelink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}