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Parenting and Children's Health
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Parenting
- advisory centre for education (ACE) - advice for parents including Exclusion helpline: 020 7704 9822, General advice line: 0808 800 5793, online advice booklets, information sheets, frequently asked questions, news, other publications, training, projects & links
- Adventure Activities Licensing Authority - information for users of services, activity providers & search for licensed activity providers
- Baby-Parenting.co.uk - pregancy & baby information & articles, also pregnancy calendar & week by week information by email, baby names search, baby gender predictor, with shopping & online adverts
- Baby Place - information on parenting, babycare, pregancy & childcare (US site)
- Babyworld - information on maternity & child care (UK) including information on benefits
- Bullying Online - help & advice for children, young people, parents & education staff, includes advice, online resources & links, online discussion forum, bullying guidelines issued by the National Association of Head Teachers & advice by email
- The CyberMom Dot Com - US site with library of parenting resources, questions & answers. Site also includes chat rooms & a work at home section
- Disabled Parents Network.org.uk/ - including articles & online discussion forum
- e-parents - questions & answers, news, parents' guide to the law (in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali and Bengali), tips, quiz, factsheets, guides & links, directory of family support services
- HARP (Health for Asylum Seekers & Refugees Portal) - resources for health professionals & volunteers, including sections on vital resources, practical resources, social & cultural information & information for children, women & men, also multilingual information on taking medicine
- Kidscape - information about bullying & child abuse for children & young people, parents, including advice for parents on paedophiles, safety guides for children, parenting news, teachers & other professionals. Free packs on bullying, child safety pack & anti-bullying policy guidelines to download
- Kids & Co - good UK site with information for parents on choosing childcare, activities for children & also information on qualifications & training + agencies, events, links & forums
- Multilingual Appointment Card - over 30 languages
- National Children's Bureau - projects, news, information service, student reading lists,
- National Family Mediation Services - helping people through divorce & separation, information about mediation & finding a local service in the UK
- National Family & Parenting Institute - information & advice, including parents' guide to the law, experts online
- Parents Online - run by parents for parents with children in primary school age groups, with information on education, health & well-being, leisure links, ask an expert section & message board
- Parenthood Education - useful UK site with news items, briefing papers, resources & articles on parenthood & education. Also lesson plans & self-assessment questionnaires for prospective teachers & for schools on parenthood education
- Parenting - wide range of issues, news, stories, information & message boards, from Femail (Daily Mail site)
- Parenting Fund Consultation - deadline for responses by 3 November 2003, joint consultation by DfES & Treasury
- Parentlineplus - support to anyone parenting a child & for professionals, wide range of topics, training, information for children 7 - 11, & for young people 11 - 16, quiz, factsheets, leaflets, other publications, news
- ParentPartners - child development information & advice, mainly pre-birth to toddler
- Relate - largest relationship counselling organisation in the UK, information & brief case studies about their counselling services, psychosexual therapy & mediation, factsheets online, email service available next year, links to other professional organisations, information about becoming a counsellor
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - includes sections on home safety, road safety, safety education, water & leisure safety, guide to firework safety, playground safety
- Support for disabled parents - project run by the National Family & Parenting Institute
- TALKadoption - Helpline - Tuesday - Thursday Tel: 0808 808 1234, website includes youth, adoption, professional & other links
- Trust for the Study of Adolescence - information for parents, research & training, also Parenting & Youth Justice projects
Childrens Health
- Baby Place - information on parenting, babycare, pregancy & childcare (US site)
- Babyworld - information on maternity & child care (UK) including information on benefits
- BBC Education - Children's Health - includes information on health visitors, healthy eating, living with children, paediatrics
- Bullying Online - help & advice for children, young people, parents & education staff, includes advice, online resources & links, online discussion forum, bullying guidelines issued by the National Association of Head Teachers & advice by email
- Child Accident Prevention Trust - advice & information for parents & professionals, including publications, Frequently Asked Questions, factsheets, projects & links
- DIAL - offering advice on the use of medicines in children, to healthcare professionals working in the UK and Eire, from Alder Hey Children's Hospitals, includes regular news & good links (some elements of the site require registration)
- Head lice & nits information - clear & useful information from a UK GP practice
- Infectious Diseases in Children - online articles in US site
- Kids Health - useful US site with sections for parents, children & young people (teenagers) includes quizzes, information, hot topics, staying safe, first aid, sports & exercise, dealing with bullying
- e-parents - questions & answers, news, parents' guide to the law (in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali and Bengali), tips, quiz, factsheets, guides & links, directory of family support services
- Obsessive Eaters Anonymous - started in Ireland based upon the Twelve Step programme of recovery begun by Alcoholics Anonymous
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - includes sections on home safety, road safety, safety education, water & leisure safety, guide to firework safety, playground safety
- Self Harm Alliance - national survivor led voluntary group which supports people affected by self-harm
- Weight Concern - organisation dealing with physical & psychological issues of overweight, and includes a Body Mass Index calculator & information leaflets for adults & children
Please let us know if there are sites we should include or sites which have moved.
Disclaimer: We cannot check the content of all the sites included, so please take care with any advice or information given in sites, particularly where it does not come from a recognised organisation or profession.
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