Parents

Services for Young Children

• Services for Young Children county office
• Services for Young Children local offices
• Hampshire Portage Service
• Find your local children’s centre

Commissioned services

• Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
• Children’s Links

PARENTING

• Family Information Directory – find childcare and family services
• Identifying needs – the Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
• Parent Partnership – for children with special educational needs
• Parent Support Team – including parenting courses
• Advice for parents – bereavement, teenage pregnancy, parental contact, useful links.

BEING HEALTHY

• Healthy Meals at school
• HIV and Aids
• Mental health
• My School Lunch
• Healthy Weights Strategy

STAYING SAFE

• Anti-bullying
• Child employment
• Child protection
• Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
• Internet safety- Kidsmart
• Missing Children
• Think Safe interactive safety site (previously Junior Citizen), eg fire, dangers in the home, roads, stranger danger
• Vodafone parents guide- how to protect children and young people in their digital world

WELFARE AND COMMUNITY

• Asylum seekers
• Anti-bullying
• Children’s Centres
• Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS)
• Hardship – benefits and debt counselling

SERVICES

• Adoption and Fostering
• Attendanceand taking a family holiday in term time
• Behaviour Support (primary school)
• Caring for children
• Childcare
• Child protection
• Child Death Overview Panels (CDOP)
• Children’s Centres
• Choice Advice in Hampshire – help with school admissions
• Education Inclusion Service (EIS)- exclusions, elective home education, behaviour support
• Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS)
• Exclusions from school
• Hampshire Educational Psychology Service (HEPS)
• Looking after somebody else’s child (private fostering)
• Parent Partnership- children with special educational needs
• Parent Support Team- parenting courses
• Short Breaks for Disabled Children
• Special needs – children with learning difficulties or disabilities
• Supporting Troubled Families programme