Specialist Services

Here is a list of support agencies for parents in Lancashire.

www.direct.gov.uk  – A website giving a wide range of government information and services regarding education, health and home and community.

www.talktofrank.com  – An interactive website giving confidential advice and support to drug users and their families.  A free helpline is available on 0800 77 66 00.

www.ace-ed.org.uk  – The Advisory Centre for Education is a charity offering information about state education in England and Wales for parents of school age children. A free general advice line is available on 0808 800 5793 (Monday to Friday 2-5pm.) A free exclusions information line is available on 020 7704 9822.

www.continyou.org.uk  – A charity which offers a wide range of education and support for schools, families and communities, including the Active Dads and It’s a Man Thing programmes.

www.parenting.org.uk  – Positive Parenting is a charity which offers parenting training and support.

www.relate.org.uk  – Relate is a charity which offers relationship support, including parent-child relationships.

www.barnardos.org.uk  – Barnardo’s is a children’s charity which offers relationship support, including parent-child relationships.

www.coram.org.uk  – Coram Family is a children’s charity that aims to develop and promote best practice in the care of vulnerable children and their families.

www.studyofadolescence.org.uk  – The Trust for the Study of Adolescence is committed to improving the lives of young people and families.

www.oneplusone.org.uk  – One Plus One works to strengthen couple and family relationships.

www.actionforchildren.org.uk  – The NCH service supports some of the UK’s most vulnerable and excluded children, young people and families.

www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk  – School-Home Support is a charity which provides practical and emotional help for disadvantaged children, young people and families.

www.lancashire.gov.uk/CYP/find   -  FIND is for parents with children with disabilities.

http://www.childcarelink.gov.uk   -  Childcare directory of all childcare in your area.

http://www.lancsycs.org/go4it   -   Go4it.  Things to do and places to go, by district.