Early Help For Families 

Our Early Help Offer

One Life Suffolk - wellbeing support

Community Services

This link takes you directly to an NHS web page that provides useful information on the support and well-being support services which are available. Included on the site are links and contact numbers which can be used to find out more about each service. 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/caring-for-children-and-young-people/children-and-young-peoples-services/ 

This link is for the Children's and families page on the Suffolk County Council website, which also has a range of links to helpful services and area of support.

https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning 

10 types to help you stay safe online - fact sheet

Cybercrime is criminal activity committed using computers and/or the internet. It can be either:

Cyber-enabled: where technology is used to scale up or speed up crimes that can also happen offline - such as buying drugs, sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation

Cyber-dependent: crimes that can only be committed using a computer or the internet

We need to protect children from harms related to cyber-enabled crimes, as part of our safeguarding responsibilities.

Popular apps and games to be aware of - Safeguarding factsheet

Ten things fact sheets

These wonderful fact sheets give straight forward advice for a range of challenges parents have, such as supporting your child with anxiety, tips to help your child sleep and advice on dealing with challenging behaviour.

Mindfulness

There is a huge amount of research, literature and hype around the benefits of Mindfulness. There are also a lot of misconceptions around  always needing to set aside blocks of time to sit in silence, meditate and 'clear your mind'. Mindfulness can be done by sitting in silence, but also when eating, or walking; it is simply about consciously trying to be present in the moment with awareness  and having choice about our thoughts rather than getting swallowed up in them.

For some interesting insight you could watch THIS conversation with Andy Puddicombe the founder 'Headspace'

For a more medical perspective you can look at the information on the NHS website or research from Harvard

There is also a good summary episode of Dr Rangan Chatterjee's Feel better live more podcast which pulls together several viewpoints on mindfulness HERE

If you are interested in giving mindfulness a go - having guided sessions is great place to start. There are lots to be found on youtube for free. There are also several apps which offer guided sessions - generally some sessions are free but you have to subscribe to access the full package. Fortunately 2 popular apps offer discounts for school staff! Take a look at Calm HERE and Headspace HERE