Parent Talk – Support for parents.

Parent Talk is a free and confidential live chat with a parenting coach hosted by Action for Children. They run Monday–Friday (including school holidays) and are available in the evenings on Monday and Thursday.

They can support parents with topics including:

• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Behaviour
• Sleep
• Nutrition and Healthy eating
• Education
• Parenting & relationships
• Additional needs & disabilities

Please click here to access this support 

New DfE guidance published on keeping children safe from abuse and harm.

• Devon County Council Children, Families and Education Web Pages
• Teen Mental Health – A Guide for Parents with useful tips and advice to help their teens overcome body image issues, academic anxiety, peer pressure, and cyberbullying, including links to other important teen mental health resources.
• Childline (remove a nude image shared online)
• GoCompare guide to broadband parental controls and internet safety for children.
• Young Carers
• Young Minds and Social media and mental health
• Young Devon
• Kooth (online support for young people)
• www.thinkuknow.co.uk (online safety advice)
• Talk to Frank (honest information about drugs)
• Child Line (Information, advice and the ZIPIT app )
• Intercom Trust (LGBT support)
• NSPCC (Helping keep children safe)
• Childnet (Internet safety)
• Educate against hate (Preventing radicalisation and extremism)
• https://parentinfo.org/ (DfE Safeguarding advice)
• Happy Maps (Children's mental health information)