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Useful Safeguarding Links for Parents

 

Websites

We've put together a helpful list for parents & carers of safeguarding resources and websites. Click on each name to expand to see what they can help with. 

 

 

Kooth

www.kooth.com/

Free and confidential online counselling for young people in BANES

Refuge

www.refuge.org.uk/links-and-useful-numbers

Domestic violence

 

You Think You Know

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

Online Safety

Child Exploitation and Online Protection

www.ceop.police.uk

Online Safety

 

NSPCC

www.nspcc.org

Online Safety

BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/links

General advice

 

Bath and North East Somerset Safeguarding Children Board

www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/children-young-people-and-families/child-protection

Child protection

National Health Service

www.nhs.uk/Examstress

Helping your son/daughter/young person cope with exam stress

 

BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/helping_with_exams

Helping your son/daughter/young person cope with exam stress

Preventing Tragedies

www.preventtragedies.co.uk

Preventing radicalisation

Let’s Talk About It

www.ltai.info

Preventing radicalisation

Developing Health & Independence

http://www.dhi-online.org.uk/do/bath/project-28/

Drugs and alcohol services

Young Minds

www.youngminds.org.uk/

The voice for young people’s mental health & well-being

Mind

www.mind.org.uk

Mental Health Charity – A-Z of mental health particularly useful

 

Anxiety UK

www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Most anxiety-related issues covered in detail

Moodjuice

www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/anxiety.asp

Excellent CBT-style approach to anxiety. Note: Website also offers info on depression, suicide, psychosis and many other conditions

No Panic

www.nopanic.org.uk

General info on anxiety and details of youth helpline

Time to Change

www.time-to-change.org.uk

General resources and personal stories about MH

Stem4

www.stem4.org.uk

Most MH conditions aimed at young people and teachers

 

Mental Health Foundation Resources

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/projects/right-here/resources

Very good resources geared towards YPMH

Mental Health Foundation Booklets

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications

Booklets on many MH conditions

Papyrus

www.papyrus-uk.org

Young people and suicide

 

Students against depression

www.studentsagainstdepression.org

Issues around depression

Mental Health Foundation A-Z

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z

A-Z of key MH issues & conditions

NHS

www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/selfhelp/ - Many, well-written NHS self-help booklets

www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/harmless/talk/ - Information on self harming

 

Coping with exams

downloadable document

Tips for parents and carers ahead of exam season

School-gate scams

newsroom.barclays.com/r/3516/school-gate_scams__barclays_declares_fightback

Advice to protect young people from becoming victims of financial scams.

The Mix

https://www.themix.org.uk/

Essential support for under 25s