Being a parent or carer can be the most wonderful thing in the world and can bring much love and joy into your life. However parenting and family life also comes with challenges. Some of these may be short lived, others may bring longer term difficulties.
Whist as a school we cannot prevent these challenges from occurring or even resolve them all, we will always do our best to listen to parents and carers and signpost you to places where you can access further support.
This is our regular opportunity for parents and carers to meet together, supported by a member of school staff to share the highs and lows of family life. These are generally held on either a Tuesday or Friday morning at 8.45a.m. – details are advertised in our newsletters or available from the school office.
Below are some websites and organisations which we know of. If you come across any others that you would like to share with the school community, then please let us know and we can add them to this resource.
This is the Hampshire Family Information and Services Hub. It contains information on a wide range of local services including Family Support, Childcare, SEND and a has a directory of local help for those experiencing difficulty.
Please click to access the Family Information & Services Hub:
We have arange of useful links to help support your child’s learning at home. These can be found at:
Denmead Infant School’s Useful Links
It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school when they’re unwell.
Is my child too ill for school?
Health for kids is aimed at both children and parents and offers support during your child’s primary years.
Health for kids
Welcome to Hampshire County Council’s partnership with the Solihull Approach. These free online courses offer advice and practical tips to boost your confidence as a parent, help you navigate family life and strengthen your relationships. Whether you are a mum, dad, foster parent or grandparent, there is a course for you.
Solihull Approach
As a parent or carer, you can take small steps to help your child’s wellbeing as well as your own. You can do this by starting with the basics.
Back to basics
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. We also know that the responsibility of parenthood and the daily challenges of this role can be as daunting as they can be exciting.
Barnado’s Family Space
Easy ways to eat well and move more.
Healthier Families
Hampshire CAMHS is an NHS specialist service for young people aged 5-18 years and their families who are experiencing difficulties with their mental and emotional health.
Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Family Assist is an innovative new way of ensuring that parents and their friends and families have access to a wide range of information and resources, both local and national, at their fingertips.
Family Assist
Mental Wellbeing Hampshire is a partnership of organisations working to support good mental health and wellbeing in our communities.
Mental Wellbeing Hampshire
Inourplace is brought to you by an NHS team of psychologists, psychotherapists, and a network of specialist professionals connected to the Solihull Approach. It is a free parent portal that can help support you and your child with moving up to a new school. They also offer various online courses dedicated to improving emotional health and wellbeing in parents, children, teenagers, adults and grandparents.
Inourplace
Family Lives provides targeted early intervention and crisis support to families. If you need to talk, we’re here to listen!
Family Lives
Understand how to support children during a separation and find out what the law says about parental rights.
NSPCC
We provide refuge and community-based support to adults, children and young people affected by domestic abuse in need of advice, support and information tailored to their level of risk and support needs.
Stop Domestic Abuse
The Help through Hardship helpline is a free phone service delivered in partnership with Citizens Advice. Our friendly advisers have already helped thousands of people who are worried about money and are here to help you access the support you need.
Help Through Hardship Helpline
There’s no right or wrong way to feel when someone dies. Everyone experiences bereavement differently. You don’t have to cope on your own, and we’re always here for you.
Childline
Supporting young people who have a significant person in their life who has died or is dying.
Simon Says
Remember someone in our Memory Meadow.
Plant memories that bloom forever by dedicating a flower to your loved one in our virtual Memory Meadow.
Winston’s Wish
Hampshire Youth Access (HYA) is a partnership of 11 leading agencies providing counselling, mental health and emotional wellbeing advice and support to children and young people aged 5 – 17 across Hampshire.
We also give advice and information to anyone concerned about a child or young person’s emotional wellbeing.
Hampshire Youth Access
Our Child Bereavement Support service (known as Rowans Meerkat Service), offers specialist emotional support to children and young people who have a significant adult (such as a parent or grandparent), with a life-limiting illness or, who have been bereaved of an adult close to them. We work alongside families with children up to the age of 18.
Rowan’s Hospice Meerkat Service