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Advice
about balancing family life and employment. |
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Parentline
Plus is a UK registered charity which offers support to anyone parenting
a child - the child's parents, stepparents, grand parents and foster
parents. Parentline Plus runs a freephone helpline, courses for
parents, develops innovative projects and provides a range of information.
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National independent
information service |
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Bringing lone parents
together for mutual support. |
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Families
Need Fathers provides information and support to parents,
including unmarried parents, of either sex. FNF is chiefly concerned
with the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with both
parents during and after family breakdown. Founded in 1974, FNF
helps thousands of parents every year. |
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Disabled
Parents Network is
a national organisation of and for disabled people who are parents
or who hope to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters.
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Advice
and support for lone parents |
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Supports and empowers
parents by providing practical tips and resources to improve family
relationships |
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A charity commited
to 'inspiring and equipping parents to enjoy parenting more' |
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The Parenting
Education & Support Forum is the national umbrella
organisation for those who work in parenting education and support.
Founded in 1995, it brings together all those working or interested
in this field, and has over 1,000 individual and corporate members
across the UK and overseas. It works in partnership with other statutory
and voluntary bodies. |
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National
NEWPIN supports parents under stress and runs local centres
which offer long term emotional support to families. |
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Helping
families who care for children with any disability or special need |
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The
Parent Centre is for all parents and carers who want to help their
child or children to learn. It is here to offer you support, information
and advice about your child's learning and the English education
system. |
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advice and information on school issues. |
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The
website for parents from the National Family and Parenting
Institute |
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Support,
advice and forums for parents. |
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Promoting awareness of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
and to provide information and free practical help to sufferers,
both adults and children, and their families. |
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website
for parents featuring sections on parenting skills, child development,
an expert panel and discussion boards. |
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Work
with an educational psychologist via e-mail advice and joint problem
solving, or locate an educational psychologist who will make an
assessment of your child. Problems with reading, writing, spelling,
specific learning difficulties/dyslexia, behavior, ADD and ADHD,
general learning difficulties, language delay and disorder, physical
difficulties, Autistic spectrum disorders, other disorders and syndromes. |
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An exciting way to understand
the different aspects of personal and practical, 'day to day' finance.
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for Children |
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News and comment by young
people for everyone. Children from Chance UK have collaborated with
Childrens Express to produce news reports, reviews, factual videos
and a magazine as part of the Islington outreach service. |
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ChildLine is the free, confidential
24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK. Children
and young people can call our helpline on 0800 1111
about any problem, at any time - day or night. Children who are deaf
or find using a regular phone difficult can try our textphone service
on 0800 400 222. ChildLine's counsellors are there to help you find
ways to sort things out. |
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Features advice about bullying for
teachers, children, and parents, as well as information for school
projects. |
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This is
an open forum for the staff and mentors of Chance UK to share ideas,
discuss possibilities, suggest solutions and support each other by
communication. |
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Cross community Turning
Point projects dedicated to empowering positive change in at-risk
young people through caring adult mentoring. Junior Turning Point
is based on the Chance UK model. |
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The
Brief Therapy Practice was founded in 1989 and is now Europe's largest
provider of solution focused training with over 4000 professionals
from the NHS, local authorities, education and private sector attending
courses each year. |
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A registered charity and leading authority
on personal safety. Its role is to minimise the damage caused to individuals
and to society by aggression in all its forms - physical, verbal and
psychological. A representative of the trust will train mentors in
personal safety on day 3 of mentor training. |
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London Borough of Hackney website. |
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London Borough of Islington website. |
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Timebank's London pages are a one-stop-shop
for anyone wanting to volunteer in London, including volunteering
with mentoring schemes, children, young people and families. |
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Find a volunteering opportunity on
the web. |
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for Teachers |
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Website for education professionals. |
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Online edition of the British education
newspaper, including an archive of back issues and resources for teachers.
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Irene
Caspari pioneered a technique, combining psychological insight with
teaching which addressed the emotional blocks that impair learning.
The principles she developed inform the Foundation's work in promoting
teachers' awareness of the emotional factors which underlie learning
difficulties. |
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Advice on Special Educational Needs
and Inclusion. |
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to Childrens' Organisations |
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PiggyBankKids runs
a number of charitable projects creating new opportunities for children
and young people, including mentoring. Founders of the Jennifer
Brown Research Laboratory, they support small but strong charities
working in the poorest corners of Britain
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Stop
it Now! believes that sexual abuse is a preventable public health
problem and challenges adults to create a society that no longer tolerates
the sexual abuse of children.
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NCH is one of the UK's
leading children's charities. They support the most vulnerable children,
young people and their families so that they have the opportunity
to reach their full potential. |
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The NSPCC's mission is
to end cruelty to children. FULL STOP. They aim to work in partnership
with other professionals and the public. The sharing of knowledge
and information about child abuse and child protection is a key part
of how they work. They aim to bring about change in law, policy and
general attitudes towards children in the UK.
In addition to professionally-focussed information resources, they
produce advice and education materials for children, their parents,
and the general public. |
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Barnardo's helps the most
vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil
their potential. |
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Kidscape works UK-wide
to provide individuals and organisations with practical skills and
resources necessary to keep children safe from harm. The Kidscape
staff equips vulnerable children with practical non-threatening knowledge
and skills in how to keep themselves safe and reduce the likelihood
of future harm. |
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A voluntary sector organisation
working to support families who are caring for a child or young adult
with learning difficulties by recruiting and training volunteers from
within the local community |
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the national charity committed
to improving the mental health of all children and young people |
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| Miscellaneous
Links |
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| Youth
Justice Board |
Includes information on
mentoring in the practictioners portal. |
| Crime
Concern |
Crime Concern provides
technical assistance, training and project development services to
Crime and Disorder Reduction partnerships, Youth Offending Teams,
Local Strategic Partnerships and other statutory and community groups. |
| Crime
Reduction |
The Crime Reduction Website
is aimed at practitioners to help them achieve and sustain reductions
in crime and disorder. The website was launched in July 2000 by the
Home Secretary in response to a need for a web-based interactive resource
where practitioners, policy-makers and others can find guidance on
good practice to which they can add new ideas and identified local
solutions. |
| Mentoring UK |
Mentoring UK and other related mentoring links |
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This website aims to help
real people in real communities tackle the crime issues that affect
them. Here you will find out how to bring about change and improvement
in your local neighbourhood, information on crime issues and case
studies from people who've made a difference in their area. |
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Social Exclusion
Unit - Social exclusion is a shorthand term for what can happen when
people or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such
as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime
environments, bad health and family breakdown. |
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Narrowing the gap
between deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country.
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Helping children in poverty achieve
their potential by investing directly in the activities of local community
and voluntary groups working for and with children and young people
aged 0-19. |
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Homepage of photographer
working with Chance UK on Children's
Promise Project and on Chance UK brochures. |
If you would
like to suggest a relevant link for this page please email it to
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