Support for Parents
Help this Winter!!
Essential Living Fund
Benefits Update
PUPIL PREMIUM / FREE SCHOOL MEAL APPLICATION FORM
ARE YOU ENTITLED TO PUPIL PREMIUM FUNDING / FREE SCHOOL MEALS?
Behaviour Support
Safer Places - Domestic Abuse Support Services
Essex Domestic Abuse Helpline
Drug and Alcohol Support
Mental Health and Well Being
Resources to promote and support children and young people’s mental wellbeing include:
- MindEd educational resources for adults about children and young people’s mental health, which is relevant for parents and carers as well as volunteers, teachers, and other professionals working with children
- the Every Mind Matters platform which supports looking after your own and other’s mental health
- guidance on looking after wellbeing and mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Anxiety Support
Information on Bereavement
Child Bereavement UK
Supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.
Childhood Bereavement Network
The hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK.
Cruse Bereavement Care
Exist to promote the wellbeing of all bereaved people and to enable them to understand their grief and cope with their loss.
The Good Grief Trust
Bereavement support charity with over over 600 local, regional and national bereavement support services listed on their central database of support for those bereaved across the UK.
Information and Finance Advice
Citizens Advice has information on benefits housing, work, debt and much more https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Information on Universal Credit and other benefits https://www.gov.uk/browse/benefits/universal-credit
Gamblers Anonymous UK Gamblers Anonymous UK runs local support groups that use the same 12-step approach to recovery from addiction as Alcoholics Anonymous. There are also GamAnon support groups for friends and family. https://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/
Family Support
Grandparents Plus
The national charity which champions the vital role of grandparents, especially when they take on the caring role in difficult family circumstances.
Family Rights Group
Advice for parents and other family members whose children are involved with, or require, social services.