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Resources, recipes, advice and tips on how to ensure healthy lifestyles

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Make a change today! Discover healthy recipes, food swaps, nutritional advice, and top tips and activities to help the whole family stay healthy.

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Range of videos and resources to support parents with a range of common issues facing families

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Parenting Smart offers practical advice for parents and carers of children aged 5-11. All of our content is created by Place2Be's parenting experts. It's based on evidence and their experiences working with children, young people and their families.

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Moodboosters | Free primary school mental health resources - BBC Teach

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Fun videos and resources for the PSHE curriculum to inspire KS1 / KS2 pupils to get moving for mental health and wellbeing.

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Central app with all the information families need to access support across North Northants.

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Interactive videos and resources for yoga, mindfulness, meditation and wellbeing

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YOGA | MINDFULNESS | RELAXATION FOR KIDS! Screentime that gives kids SUPERPOWERS! ⬇️ D O W N L O A D T H E C O S M I C K I D S A P P ⬇️ 🍏Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-kids/ 🛍️Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmickids 🖥️ Desktop (great for teachers!): https://app.cosmickids.com/ 📺 Roku: https://rb.gy/44r8d -------------------------------------------------------------------- Why watch on the App?

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Interactive videos, songs and dances to get children moving, boost their mood, manage their emotions and develop confidence

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Welcome To GoNoodle! GoNoodle gets kids moving to be their strongest, bravest, silliest, smartest, bestest selves. Join the party and get ready for a fun-filled day of dancing, stretching, running, jumping, deep breathing, and wiggling with GoNoodle. We post new videos every Sunday, Monday, and Thursdays!

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Our own wellbeing channel on You Tube with mindfulness and wellbeing activities for children to support their emotional wellbeing and regulation

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Wellbeing channel of the Nene Education Trust. A MAT based in East Northants with a passion and focus on wellness, wellbeing and developing the whole child.

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If you're struggling with self-harm it's important to remember that you don't have to face it alone, help and support is available.

Every day at Shout our volunteers take conversations with children and young people who are self-harming. If you're struggling then help is available.

You can use some of the resources below to get further support, or text SHOUT to 85258 to speak to a trained volunteer.

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Resources for children and young people struggling with self-harm. Find out more.

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Online support and counselling for children and young people

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Kooth is your online mental wellbeing community. Access free, safe and anonymous

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Support for parents with an A-Z guide to Mental Health with links to support

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If you're looking for guidance on how to support a young person or young people in your life, these charities offer great advice and resources.

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Bounce Forward - Resilience and Psychological Fitness

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Bounce Forward - Resilience and Psychological Fitness

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Bounce Forward provides free resources for schools & parents. They include easy-to-access interactive activities & classroom displays!

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It's okay to reach out for help. Your situation is unique and no parent has all the answers. We all need a little extra support sometimes, and we hear from parents and carers just like you all the time.

So, if you're worried about the mental health and wellbeing of a child or young person up to the age of 25, you can chat to us by phone, email or webchat.

Our Parents Helpline is also accessible for those who are hard of hearing or speak English as an additional language. If English is not your first or preferred language, we can arrange for a language translator to support you on a call with one of our helpline advisers. Or if you would like to use our webchat or email service, we offer a digital translation service.

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Parents Mental Health Support | Advice for Your Child

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Practical tips, advice and where you can get help if your child or teenager is struggling with their mood, feelings, or their behaviour seems different.

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If you’re struggling with your feelings, we have tips and advice from other young people, and information on getting the support you need for your mental health.

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Mental health support for parents and carers – Place2Be

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Advice and resources for parents and carers to help support their child or young person’s wellbeing.

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Support for parents, carers and families

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Essential support for under 25s

The Mix is the UK's leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you're facing - from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via our online community, on social, through our free, confidential helpline or our counselling service.

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The Mix - Essential support for under 25s

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The Mix: 0808 808 4994 - Free information and support for under 25s in the UK. Get advice about sex, relationships, drugs, mental health, money & jobs.

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Mental Health support for children and young people

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A large board designed as an illuminated Lightbox that can be placed on an internal wall to help open-up mental health and wellbeing conversations, and provide some information about these important issues. The Buddy Board is now copyrighted.

A Presentation and Discussion about mental health by Celia Lyons, the mother of Joe Lyons, as created and produced by a Qualified Mental Health Practitioner.

Workshops can be offered on specific mental health and wellbeing issues for all within an Education Institution Family, including Teachers, Students, Governors and Parents/Guardians. Look at our initiatives in detail in the link above to find out more about the workshops we offer.

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Papyrus Suicide Awareness and Prevention 

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Thinking of suicide?

Are you, or is a young person you know, not coping with life? For confidential suicide prevention advice contact HOPELINE247.

My whole way of thinking has changed. I feel positive about my future and the people around me. I'm now looking forward to the future and helping others just like me!

Thank you so much for the incredible support PAPYRUS and HOPELINE247 has given me. You helped me in that moment and it kept me alive.

I intend to continue to fundraise for and promote PAPYRUS. I am so proud and humbled to be involved with a wonderful charity, and to have received the support that I have.

Having been personally bereaved by suicide I understand the importance and need for our charity. I am surrounded by others who are as passionate as I am about saving lives.

* All feedback is provided by people who contact PAPYRUS. All feedback has full consent of the user and the user remains fully anonymous. Some feedback may have been adapted to keep the users anonymity.

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Our upcoming events

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Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention of Young Suicide

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We will be developing another FREE Parent and Carer Pack to help you bring Anti-Bullying Week 2025 and Odd Socks Day to life at home. This resource will help you start the conversation about bullying no matter the age of your child and give you other ideas about anti-bullying at home.

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Parent and Carer Pack - Anti-Bullying Week 2025

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Anti-Bullying Week 2025 will take place from Monday 10th - Friday 14th November, with the theme: Power for Good.

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Our World Kindness Day Assembly!

This year, we're kicking off Anti-Bullying Week with our virtual World Kindness Day Assembly! This will take place on Monday 13th November 2023 and is free for all primary schools. Our assemblies were fully booked last year, so make sure you register you interest here so you can be the first to find out when booking opens. We'll also be releasing a brand new World Kindness Day Resource Pack for schools.

We're super excited for this year's assembly. Last year, more than 45,000 children from 200 schools took part in our assemblies, and we're planning for 2023 to be even bigger!

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Anti-Bullying Week 2023 - School of Kindness

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My child is being bullied - what do I do?

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Place2Be: Parenting Smart: My child is being bullied. What can I do?

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5 steps to take if your child is being bullied. Suggestions and tips on what to do to support your child, from Place2be's mental health experts.

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- Give them your help and understanding so they can stop

Things you can try

1. Take a moment to process the shock you could be feeling
We all know how dreadful bullying can be, so of course it's a shock to be told that your child is bullying other children. Even though it's really hard, you need to try not to deny it. As you work on managing how you feel, try and listen carefully to what the teacher or other parent is telling you.

You could say "I am so sorry. Let me speak to X and try and get to the bottom of what is going on. Can we get together again tomorrow and work out how to stop this happening again".

You will probably have a lot of emotions to deal with. You could find yourself angry with the person who has told you or the child that has been bullied. You could be angry with your child. And you could be angry, embarrassed or ashamed.

All of these are natural reactions. Reach out to someone you trust for support.

2. Get ready to talk to your child
You're going to need to be very clear about what bullying looks like, so you can explain it to them. You'll need to help them understand how the bullied child will be feeling. And you'll need to be ready to help them change their behaviour.

It's easy for us to think of the most physical examples of bullying. We imagine hitting and kicking, of gangs gathering round and threatening people and taking away money or possessions. But bullying is also any unkind teasing. It's name calling. It's leaving the same person out all the time. And it is standing by and saying nothing while other children do those things.

Children often bully others to feel more powerful. It might mean that they themselves are feeling powerless.

There's a couple of sayings to describe bullying: "I am feeling small and the only way I can feel bigger is to make you feel small" or "some hurt people, hurt people".

Other children become part of bullying because they don't know how to speak out against it. For others being really mean is just a one-off experiment and when they realise for themselves what they've done they never do it again.

You can get ready to help with all these things.

3. Talk and listen as much as you can
Sit down with your child and listen carefully to their side of the story. Try questions like "what is going on with you and Y?"

Help your child realise how what they have done will have upset the person being bullied. Ask them "what do you think it was like for Y when you did that?"

Encourage your child to open up to you about any problems they might have. Try saying "sometimes people bully others because they're unhappy themselves, or some people do it because they want to look strong or cool in front of their friends"

Don't worry if these are difficult conversations. Your child probably not going to willingly admit they were wrong to start off with. That's natural, take it gently.

4. Help your child get ready to make amends
This is a chance to build on your conversations so far. Talk to them about the power of kindness and the strength in being a good friend.

"I think maybe you don't know how powerful you are. You can use that power in a good way you know?"

Be firm - you expect them to make amends. But be supportive as well - they're learning to be a better person.

You could get support from the school for this.

Ask the school for help in arranging conversations. If they have an anti-bullying policy, read it. Ask them to set up a conversation with all the children and parents involved.

The school can help create an opportunity for all the children involved to say how they are feeling, and what has been happening for them. Then they can set out a plan that helps to make sure things change.

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Place2Be: Parenting Smart: My child might have bullied someone

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What to do when someone says your child has bullied someone? Parenting Smart have tips on how to cope with how you feel and advice on how to talk to your child.