Greatfields School » PARENTAL INFORMATION

Home Or Out Alone

Please click on the link below to find out more information about whether or not your child is ready to go out alone or stay home alone:

Home Or Out Alone Guide

Bullying

Please click on the link below to find out more information about bullying:

Bullying

Coping With Self-Harm A Guide for Parents and Carers

Coping with Self Harm Guide

This guide was developed from talking to parents and carers of young people and is aimed at helping parents, carers, other family members and friends cope when a young person is self-harming. It includes information on the nature and causes of self-harm, how to support a young person when facing this problem and what help is available.

What To Do If Your Child Goes Missing

Runaways parents guide

Parenting Smart (Place2Be)

The children’s mental health charity, Place2Be, has launched a new website aimed at helping parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children.

Advice can be found on over forty topics including:

Understanding sibling rivalry 

My child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do?

My child has trouble going to sleep

My child says ‘I hate you!’

Cultural identity: who am I?

The Parenting Smart website can found here:

https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/

Support your child’s emotional wellbeing (and improve yours, too!)

The Triple P – Positive Parenting program® is a toolbox of strategies, skills, and knowledge. It helps you create a positive learning environment. Triple P is the world’s most widely researched parenting programme with hundreds of clinical trials and real-world studies that prove it works for most families. It can work for you too and it is free. For more details and sign up click here https://www.triplep-parenting.uk.net/uk/get-started/online-parenting-course-pre-teens-and-teens/

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National Referral Mechanism (NRM)

NRM is a framework for identifying victims of human trafficking and Modern Slavery. Through this process it should ensure that victims receive support and that their experiences are recognised.

Please click on the link below to find out more information about NRM:

NRM guide for parents

–LBBD Community Hub

https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/community-hubs

Barking and Dagenham Parent Talk

Barking and Dagenham based Parenting Coach is in post and taking live webchats from LBBD parents and carers.

Parents will be signposted to local services, as appropriate.

Parent Talk LBBD Poster