Family Support
Warrington Borough Council
Children, young people and families offers information on a wide range of services. It will help you find local services, events, advice and support in Warrington.
Barnardo's Family SpacE
Being a parent or carer can be the most wonderful thing in the world and can bring so much love and joy into your life. Barnardo's know that the responsibility of parenthood and the daily challenges of this role can be as daunting as they can be exciting.
The Family Space is here for you. The virtual family hub offers information, advice, guidance and support for all stages of your parenting or caring journey.
The nationwide network of family hubs and children’s centres provides services directly to parents and care givers of children of all ages.
Early Help
Early help can include support with: parenting, employment, housing issues, financial difficulties, substance misuse, domestic abuse, parental conflict, education, school attendance and mental health.
Any professional working with a family, such as schools, health services and voluntary sector organisations, can offer early help
services as soon as they can see that advice or support may be needed.
Listed below are some ways in which support is available at Stockton Heath:
*Mr Harding and Mrs Collins are available to talk to parents/carers each morning or after school on the playground when you drop your child off/collect at school. You may wish to discuss any concerns you have regarding behaviour, learning or any other support you require.
*Mrs Collins & Mrs Coneeny run the school's safeguarding team and can be contacted via the school office to discuss any concerns or worries you may have regarding your child.
*Mrs Collins and Mrs Coneeny work in partnership with families to complete referrals to a wide range of different organisations such as Early Help, Nurture programme and Health services etc, in order to create a package of support that meets the needs of the whole family.
*We work closley with our Partnership Link Worker from the Early Help Support Team who can support with connecting families to community resources, co-ordinating services and completing paperwork.
Please click the image below to find out more information about Early Help in Warrington.
Food Bank
The Food Bank will provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to them in crisis. They are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK
Stranger Danger
Below are some top tips for keeping safe around strangers. They are child friendly and will help parents explain how to keep themselves safe.
Underwear Rule
The Underwear Rule (or PANTS rule) is a simple, child-friendly tool developed by the NSPCC to help parents teach children about body safety and prevent abuse.
Chat Health
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is beginning the roll out of a new secure text messaging service for parents and carers of children and young people aged 0-19 years old, enabling them to get timely and trusted health advice from a health professional (a Health Visitor or School Nurse).
As our lives have changed over the last few months due to coronavirus, it’s more important than ever for young people families to have easy access to support, particularly in the absence of face to face interaction.
The service (which is available in Warrington, Halton and Oldham) does not aim to replace face to face contacts, rather increase choice for service users about how they access advice from a health professional and provides a new line of communication as face to face contact is reduced.
The ChatHealth text number will operate Monday-Friday from 9am until 5pm.
Messages will be responded to within 24 hours during this period. Outside these hours, service users will receive a ‘bounce back’ text message indicating that they will receive a response when the line re-opens. Of course, ChatHealth is not an emergency service, and accordingly parents will be instructed to follow usual advice in seeking urgent medical attention.
The text numbers for Warrington are:
- 11 - 19 Young People's Service – 07507 330101
- 0 - 5 Parents Service – 07507 327981
- 5 - 19 Parents Service – 07480 63599
