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Families – we’re here for you
Find out more about what we offer and how we can support you
Build resilience and emotional health in children
Download our infographic to help you build the resilience and emotional health in your children, with practical tips and guidance.
Parenting and family support
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Prisoners
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Parents Together online parenting course
This course is for families with younger children
Sibling Arguments online parenting course
Learn how to manage sibling arguments
General advice and advocacy services
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Affordable technology for families
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Carers
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Children and young people
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Early years
Information on other organisations that can provide help and support
Reducing teen violence
Helping to reducing child exploitation and reducing the incidence of serious youth violence
ParentChild+ Westminster and RBKC
Supporting young children in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea
Supervision for professionals
We provide supervision to a range of professionals
Westminster befriending services
Find out more about our befriending services in Westminster
Westminster outreach services
Providing outreach services across Westminster
Westminster Parent and Carer Champion Network
Find out more how we can support you
New Baby in the Family online course
This course is for new and expectant parents
Bringing Up Confident Children online course
This course helps you to bring up confident children
Challenging Behaviour in Teens online course
For parents dealing with challenging behaviour in teens
Parenting Teens online parenting course
This course is for parents navigating the teenage years
Let’s Play online parenting course
Our course can help you create play ideas
Ealing Turnaround
Support for children and teens at risk of offending in Ealing
Family Coaching Service Ealing
Supporting families in Ealing to parent their children when they face complex needs and challenges.
Lewisham Parent Champion
Find out about ourr Parent Champions service
Stepfamily house rules and boundaries
House rules and boundaries advice for new stepfamilies
Stepfamily living arrangements
Advice if you are looking to live together
When you become a stepfamily
Read our advice if you are coming together as a stepfamily
Who is my real parent?
Talking to your child about their biological parent
Building your child’s self-esteem
Helping your child build their self-esteem
How to keep a work-life balance
Helping you manage your work-life balance
Looking after yourself
Read our tips on making time for yourself
Dealing with parental anxiety
Advice to help you manage your anxious feelings
Top 10 tips for a happier family
How to have a happier family, from communicating well, boundaries and spending quality time together
Absent parents
Supporting your child when parenting alone
Advice on becoming a single parent
Single parent advice on financial support and tips on parenting alone
Being both parents
Advice on being both parents when parenting alone
Having a life too
How to make time for yourself and have a life too
Contacting social services for support with your child
What to expect if you contact social services for support
When your child is taken into care
Advice when your child is taken into care
Dads who have children at risk or in care
Advice for dads with children in the care system
Maintaining contact with your child in care
Maintaining contact with your child in care
Section 47 Enquiries
Advice on what to expect with Section 47 enquiry
When social services are involved with your family
Advice if social services are involved with your family
Adopting stepchildren
A guide on the process of adopting stepchildren
Getting to know your stepchild
How to build relationships with stepchildren
New baby in a stepfamily
Advice on a new baby in a stepfamily
Resolving arguments in a stepfamily
Managing conflict in your blended family
Stepfamilies – moving in together
Advice if you are thinking of moving in together
Kinship care
Advice on kinship care and your rights
Residence orders
Advice to help you understand what a residence order is
Special guardianship orders
Understanding a special guardianship order
What is fostering
Advice if you are thinking of fostering
Parenting children with disabilities
Read our advice on parenting a child with disabilities
Fun things to try with disabled children
Advice on fun things to do with children with special needs
Understanding low demand parenting
How to approach low demand parenting
Managing change and transition in neurodivergent children
Supporting your neurodivergent child with change
What are special educational needs
Understanding special educational needs
How to cope if a parent goes to prison
Advice fwhen a parent goes to prison
Parenting in same sex relationships
Advice for LGBTQ parents
Parenting when you have a mental health condition
Advice for parents struggling with mental health
Parenting with a gambling addiction
Advice on parenting with a gambling addiction
Parenting with an addiction
Read our advice on parenting with an addiction
Where can young parents go for support?
Find out what support is available for young parents
Empty nest syndrome
Support when your teenager leaves home
Living with teens
Advice on living happily with teens
A parent’s guide to mobile phones
Advice on giving your child a phone
Family routines
How to establish positive family routines
Grown up and living at home
Advice if grown up child is living at home
Keeping the kids occupied on a budget
How to have fun with kids on a budget
Making chores fun
Advice for getting children to help out with chores
Supporting your child’s cultural heritage
Find out how to help your child connect to their culture
Talking to your child about sex
Advice on how to talk about sex to your children
Adopting a child
Find out who can adopt and what you need to do
Adoption support
Adoption support for parents and carers
Contacting birth parents
Helping your child to trace their birth parents
Telling your child they’re adopted
Our advice can help you have this necessary conversation
If your child is being adopted
Advice if your child is being adopted
Talking to teens about consent
How to talk to your teen about sexual consent
Teenage pregnancy
Advice on supporting your teen if they are pregnant
Your influence on your teen’s attitude to sex and relationships
Adivce on how your attitude can influence your teenager
Going to court with your child
Advice for parents going to court with their child
Teens and gangs
Learn how to recognise if your child is part of a gang
What is a parenting order?
Understanding what is a Parenting Order
What to do if your teen gets arrested
Find out what to do if your teenager gets arrested
Protecting teens from radicalisation
Advice if your teen is at risk of extremism or radicalisation
Teen in trouble with the law
Find out more about young people and the law
Teens and piercings
Advice if your teen is asking for a piercing
Runaway teens
Advice on what you can do if you’re worried your teen might run away
Digital footprints
How digital footprints can affect an online reputation
Parents’ guide to social media and apps
Social media apps guide for parents
Support at school
Find out how to best support your child at school
Dealing with anger in teenagers
Dealing with anger in teenagers advice for parents
Setting boundaries for teens
Advice to help you set boundaries for teenagers
Teen violence at home
When teenage anger turns to violence and aggression
Teens and risk-taking
Tips on talking with your teen to help keep them safe
What to do if your teen is lying to you or stealing
Find out why your teenager might be lying to you or stealing
A-Z guide to drugs
Illegal drugs guide for parents
Teens and drugs: Real life stories
Read real life stories about teens taking drugs
Underage drinking
When and how do you get talking about alcohol?
Older baby sleep advice
Advice if your baby is not sleeping through the night
Newborn sleep advice
How much sleep your new baby needs
Dealing with challenging behaviour
How to deal with challenging behaviour from your child
Dealing with pester power
Learn how to manage your child’s demands
Positive behaviour
Learn strategies that help with positive boundaries
Sibling rivalry
Are your children are arguing constantly?
Stealing and lying
Advice if your child has been lying or stealing
How to help your child if they are overweight
Worried about your child’s weight gain?
Keeping your child safe
Tips to help keep your child safe
Children and sleepovers
Advice if your child is having a sleepover
Helping your child develop social skills
Supporting your child’s social skills
School routine
A positive school routine can minimise stress
Issues at school
Supporting your child if there are issues at school
Video: Row Your Boat
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Wheels On The Bus
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Advice for dads to be
Find out how life will change once you become a dad
Bonding with your baby
How to develop a bond with your new baby
Should you use cry it out?
Should you let a baby cry it out?
Postnatal depression
Find out more about post-natal depression and getting support
Teething in babies
Teething advice for parents
Returning to work after maternity leave
Going back to work after having a baby
Pregnant with twins
If you’re pregnant with twins or multiples read our advice
Preparing for pregnancy
If you have just found out that you are pregnant, you may be feeling an array of emotions
Speech and language development
A journey to developing speech and language
Creating a dad bond
Tips and advice for dads written by Daddilife
Play ideas and games
There are lots of games you can play with your baby or toddler to help them learn and develop
School readiness
Tips and advice to help your child be ready for school
Why play matters
The importance of how children learn through play
Video: Ainsi Font Font Font
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Animals song
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Ghanaian Song
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Incy Wincy Spider
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Old Macdonald Had a Farm
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Video: Pat a Cake
Sing with your baby with our guided video
Parental responsibility
Understanding parental responsibility
Keeping to your contact arrangements
Advice on contact with your child
What is co-parenting?
Understanding what is shared parenting
Contact with the other parent
Advice on contact with your ex-partner
Paternity tests
Advice on why you might want to get one and the steps to take
Changing a child’s name
Guidance on changing a child’s surname
Aggressive behaviour in toddlers
Challenging behaviour from your toddler
Managing sibling jealousy
How to prepare your child for their new sibling
Setting boundaries for toddlers
How to set boundaries for young children
Dealing with tantrums
Advice on dealing with temper tantrums
Toddler always misbehaving
Dealing with challenging behaviour in toddlers
Coping as a non-resident parent
Coping when you no longer live with your children
Contact with your child this christmas
Guidance on organising contact with your child this Christmas
Making child arrangements
Arranging contact to see your children
Effect of bullying on your family life
How bullying can impact your family life
What to do if your child is a bully
It can be difficult to find out if your child has been bullying others
Why children bully
Understanding how and why a child is bullying can be key in helping to stop the bullying
Singing with your baby
Watch our guided videos on singing with your baby
Online parenting courses
Get support with parenting through our online parenting course
Confidential parenting helpline
A confidential helpline service for families in England and Wales
Forum
Join our forum community for support