Family Support Services
School Nursing Service
School nurses offer support to children and young people experiencing mild difficulties. The School Nursing Team can support with children experiencing mild anxiety (including general worrying, avoidance of social situations, separation from parents, early Emotionally Based School Avoidance), low self-esteem (including irritability or anger) and mild sleep problems. Parents can telephone the team direct for support and advice.
Parental Separation Advice
Advice for parents from CAFCASS how parents can support children with separation.
10 tips for parents about children and separation.
Cafcass - ask the experts -10 tips for parents
Both Parents Matter
Both Parents Matter is a charity that specialise in advocating for the rights of children to maintain meaningful relationships with both parents and wider families after parental separation while raising awareness about the impact of parental conflict on their wellbeing, providing families with resources, guidance and emotional support to navigate separation in a way that prioritises the needs of children and promotes their resilience and stability, and equipping parents, carers and professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to develop healthy co-parenting relationships and minimise the negative effects of parental separation on children.
Gingerbread
Gingerbread is a charity which offer support and advice on child contact arrangements and helping children through separation.
Separation and divorce: understanding rights and responsibilities
Advice from the NSPCC, including on how to agree contact, parental responsibility and family mediation.
Advice for parents on how to co-parent for when parents don't get along
Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing
Library books to support children's mental health and wellbeing
The books in the Reading Well for children book list provides helpful reading to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. The scheme is developed and endorsed by leading health partners and delivered in public libraries and schools. The book list of 33 titles provides quality-assured information, advice and stories to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. The books are all selected and endorsed by health experts, children and families.
All the books are available for anyone to borrow from South Gloucestershire Libraries, they can also be reserved on the website www.librarieswest.org.uk for no charge and collected from your nearest library.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Children and Young People
South Gloucestershire Children and Young People Mental Health Leaflet about getting help locally with mental health and wellbeing including what to do in a mental health crisis.
HappyMaps – A one-stop hub for young people’s mental health
HappyMaps is an award-winning charity founded by healthcare professionals in collaboration with parents and young people. They understand the challenges families face when seeking help and how time-consuming it can be to navigate online information and find resources you trust.
Bourne Family Project
Offering affordable play therapy for children
Food Bank
As a school, we are able to issue vouchers for South Gloucestershire Food Banks.
If you would like a voucher, or would like to find out more about the service, please fill out the attached form in confidence.