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Child and Family Health
Local Support
Hackney Local Offer
Hackney Family Support are a service who can: Help you to get your children to attend school regularly Help you and your family to access community resources Find a job or get training Improve your family relationships and your child’s behaviour Help you manage your money.
Newborn Hearing Screening
We are part of the national programme - Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP). The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme Vision: 'Improving outcomes for every child through a high quality hearing screening programme, safe and effective assessments and family centred intervention'
National Support
NSPCC
If you’re worried about a child, even if you’re unsure, contact NSPCC professional counsellors for help, advice and support.
Childline
Offers free, confidential advice and support for any child 18 years or under, whatever the worry.
Contact: For families with disabled children
Contact support families with the best possible guidance and information. For every shape and size of family, whatever they need and whatever their child’s disability.
Dyspraxia Foundation
The helpline is available to help you with problems and issues you may encounter; offering help and advice to people with dyspraxia, parents, carers, and families about or on the subject of dyspraxia.
Cleft Lip and Palate Association
The helpline is available to help you with problems and issues you may encounter; offering help and advice to people with dyspraxia, parents, carers, and families about or on the subject of dyspraxia.
Change4Life
Change4Life aims to help your family be healthier and happier. Find out more about what’s really in the food your family eats.
Healthier Together
The Healthier Together programme relies upon patients and healthcare professionals working together to improve how local healthcare is delivered. The website provide advice for parents, young people and pregnant women, and clinical resources to support healthcare professionals – which means that your child is likely to receive consistently high-quality care, irrespective of which healthcare professional they see.
Action for Children
Every family needs a bit of support from time to time. We’re here to help. We work with families from before children are born until they’re in their twenties. We do this in lots of different ways – in local services, schools and online. We step in early to help build positive relationships. We bring parents together at support groups and in our children’s centres. We offer advice and help with parenting skills. And we never, ever judge.
Self Help App for the Mind (SAM)
This app provides self-help techniques to help manage overall anxiety. Track anxiety levels, triggers, and build a personal tool kit in the app. It also provides interactive guidance for practicing self-help and a closed social community to engage with others. If you’re looking for holistic snapshot of your anxiety and how to cope with it, this may be the app for you.
Triple P
Triple P is a parenting programme, but it doesn’t tell you how to be a parent. It’s more like a toolbox of ideas. You choose the strategies you need. You choose the way you want to use them. It’s all about making Triple P work for you.
Healthy Henry
A healthy start for a brighter future. The early years have lifelong effects on health and wellbeing. HENRY supports families to provide the best possible start in life for babies and children.
Home Start
Home-Start is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times. We are there for parents when they need us the most because childhood can’t wait.
Family Lives
Family Lives is a national charity providing support in all aspects of family life.