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Parenting Support

Parent Zone 

Young Minds offer three different services to parents and carers who are concerned about their child’s mental health, up to the age of 25. Please click here to find out more: Parents Helpline | Mental Health Help for Your Child | YoungMinds 

CONTACT Listening Ear (contact.org.uk) 

The Listening Ear service offers hour-long 1-1 telephone appointments with a family support adviser.

The helpline provides information and advice, Listening Ear is for parent/carers looking for emotional support and reassurance – though they can provide practical help too.

The parent advisers in the Listening Ear team are all parents of children and young people with disabilities, plus they have a huge wealth of professional experience. 

Parenting tips for all stages of your child's life, as well as advice on how to deal with difficult situations.

You can also find a range of help parent leaflets here: Parents' leaflets | NSPCC Learning.

The children's mental health charity, Place2Be, has launched a new website aimed at helping parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children.

Advice can be found on over forty topics including:

  • Understanding sibling rivalry 
  • My child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do?
  • My child has trouble going to sleep
  • My child says ‘I hate you!’
  • Cultural identity: who am I?

 

Being a parent has never been easy. There are no manuals for it, and previous generations may not be able to provide the insight you're looking for. The family unit is more dispersed than ever, with some families existing hundreds of miles from what may be called a 'core unit'. The rapid pace of societal change in the UK rapidly outstrips the knowledge of the immediate past. The result is that many parents may find themselves lost in a maelstrom of contradictory advice. For adults, time has never been more compacted. Family Lives has produced a series of online parenting courses, to make this challenge a little easier. If interested please follow the link below: 

Family Lives offers a confidential and free* helpline service for families in England and Wales (previously known as Parentline). They can be contacted on 0808 800 2222 for emotional support, information, advice and guidance on any aspect of parenting and family life. Their website is also a rich source of useful support and advice. 

England's leading family charity and our services help over 45,000 disadvantaged children and families every year.

They provide advice and practical support for single parents. Expert advisers answer our helpline, this website is packed full of useful information

Safeguarding

  • Safeguarding Advice to parents and carers on keeping children safe from abuse and harm - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)