Health Visitors helping families get healthier and wealthier  

Our health visitors in Tower Hamlets are now playing a key role in the Healthier Wealthier Families in East London (HWFinEL) project.

This project is an innovative model that integrates access to welfare benefit advice into the universal health visiting service. By health visitors identifying need during their visits, they can help families connect with money advice early—when challenges can feel overwhelming, and support can make a lasting difference.

This collaboration between University College London, Tower Hamlets Council, and local welfare advice providers recognises that money worries are health issues. Financial stress impacts mental health, housing, nutrition, and access to essentials—all of which shape a child’s early development.

As part of the project health visitors are:

• Identifying families who may benefit from financial advice
• Supporting families to understand HWFinEL and feel confident accessing it
• Collecting information from families interested in taking part
• Feeding into ongoing learning so the service adapts to community needs.
   

If one of our health visitors has mentioned the project to you and you’ve shown interest our central admin team will be in touch. 

This preventative approach supports local goals to reduce child poverty and improve family wellbeing—placing financial empowerment at the heart of early years care.

We're proud of how our health visitors are championing this work and look forward to sharing learning as the project develops.

If you work in public health, early years, welfare advice or just want to learn more about HWFinEL, visit: Healthier wealthier families East London