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Conversation Guide and Top Tips to Talk About Periods

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Conversation Guide and Top Tips to Talk About Periods

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There are more than 300 baby banks across the UK. If you’d like to support a local baby bank, or if you need support, search below to find your nearest […]

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Give and receive children's stuff for free

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Give and receive children's stuff for free

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YoungPlanet - Give and receive children’s stuff for free

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YoungPlanet is a platform for giving and receiving children’s books, toys, clothes and much more for free. Get rid of your unwanted children’s stuff.

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If you need emergency food, want to make a food donation or are interested in volunteering, find your nearest Trussell Trust food bank using our map.

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Employment programme for Refugees. Can self-refer once you have received Leave to Remain

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Employment programme for Refugees. Can self-refer once you have received Leave to Remain

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Meet your Case Manager

If you can take part in the service you will attend a meeting with a Case Manager within 10 working days.

Your Case Manager will support you all the time you are using the service. This can be for up to 18 months.

You can meet with your Case Manager in person, online or on the telephone.

They will start by completing a personal assessment of your needs and goals.

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Home | Refugee Employability Programme | Reed in Partnership

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The Refugee Employability Programme will give you the support you need to work and live in England. If you have arrived as a refugee and need to find a job and settle in your community then we are here to help.

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How to open a bank account if you are asylum seeker and do not have fixed address. 

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How to open a bank account if you are asylum seeker and do not have fixed address. 

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To access the No Fixed Address programme, you must be experiencing homelessness or housing difficulties and receiving support from a registered charity or organisation. To find out if your local charity is registered, please reach out to them directly.

At the appropriate time, a caseworker from the charity will contact your local participating HSBC UK branch to arrange an appointment to open an account.

Once the appointment is completed and your account has been opened, any correspondence from HSBC UK (including your debit card and PIN) will be sent to the address used to open the account.

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No Fixed Address Bank Account | Homelessness - HSBC UK

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We're working with charities to help the homeless and customers with no fixed address open an HSBC bank account.

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Contact@uniformedcharity.org The Charity is giving cash for the school uniforms

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It is your choice whether to have a cervical screening test or not. This guidance aims to help you decide. Cervical screening used to be called a ‘smear test’.

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Dental health for children and adults, pain medications

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Dental health for children and adults, pain medications

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https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/

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Fever is extremely common in children and usually suggests that your child has an infection. It's really important that you measure your child's temperature accurately - you should use a digital thermometer (under the the armpit (axillary) for children 5 years and younger, and in the mouth for children over 5 years of age). The other option is to use an in the ear thermometer (tympanic), although these should not be used in babies below a month of age.

Viral infections are far more common than bacterial infections.

Symptoms such as runny nose, cough, wheeze, sore throat, red eyes and diarrhoea are more suggestive of a viral infection than a bacterial infection. If a number of people are unwell in the same household, this also suggests a viral infection (because viral infections are easily spread).

Fever is common in babies up to 48 hours after receiving immunisations - it is OK to give paracetamol after the MenB vaccine without seeking medical advice if your baby is otherwise well.

Occasionally, children with fever can have a seizure/fit. This is called a febrile convulsion and most commonly occurs in children aged between 6 months and 3 years. They generally occur on day 1 of the fever, and in most cases have no long term effects.

Viral infections tend to get better on their own and do not need treatment with antibiotics. Antibiotics may actually cause side effects such as rash and diarrhoea and can increase the risk of them developing antibiotic resistance.

Click here for an Operation Ouch video on fever that you and your child can watch together.

When should you worry?

If your child has any of the following:

Is pale, mottled and feels abnormally cold to touch

Has blue lips

Severe breathing difficulty - to breathless to talk or eat/drink

Has a fit/ seizure

Is extremely agitated (crying inconsolably despite distraction), confused or very lethargic (difficult to wake)

Has a rash that does not disappear with pressure (the 'Glass Test')

Is under 3 months of age with a temperature of 38°C / 100.4°F or above (unless fever in the 48 hours following vaccinations and no other red or amber features)

If your child has any of the following:

Is finding it hard to breathe

Seems dehydrated (sunken eyes, drowsy or not passed urine for 12 hours)

Is drowsy (excessively sleepy) or irritable (unable to settle them with toys, TV, food or picking up) - especially if they remain drowsy or irritable despite their fever coming down

Has extreme shivering or complains of muscle pain

Has had chickenpox in the past few days and is now getting more unwell with a high fever and spreading red rash

Swelling of a limb or joint

Too painful for your child to stand

Has a swollen eye

Complaining of severe pain that is not improving with painkillers

Is 3-6 months of age with a temperature of 39°C / 102.2°F or above (but fever is common in babies up to 2 days after they receive vaccinations)

Continues to have a fever of 38.0°C or more for more than 5 days

Is getting worse or if you are worried

You need to contact a doctor or nurse today.

Please ring your GP surgery or call NHS 111 - dial 111

If symptoms persist for 4 hours or more and you have not been able to speak to either a member of staff from your GP practice or to NHS 111 staff, recheck that your child has not developed any red features.

If none of the above features are present

If your child has any other symptoms associated with their fever, you may want to look at the information on sore throat, cough, earache, diarrhoea and vomiting or tummy ache or click here.

Additional advice is also available to young families for coping with crying of well babies - click here.

Self care

Continue providing your child's care at home. If you are still concerned about your child, speak to your h ealth visitor, local pharmacist or call NHS 111- dial 111. Keep monitoring your child for red and amber features and seek help if they develop

Children and young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home. They can go back to school, college or childcare when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend.

What should you do?

Keep monitoring your child for red and amber features (see above). Seek help if they develop, as this may suggest a more severe illness requiring specific investigations and treatment.

To make your child more comfortable, you may want to lower their temperature using paracetamol (calpol) and/or ibuprofen. Use one and if your child has not improved 2-3 hours later you may want to try giving the other medicine. However, remember that fever is a normal response that may help the body to fight infection and paracetamol/ibuprofen will not get rid of it entirely.

Avoid tepid sponging your child - it doesn't actually reduce your child's temperature and may cause your child to shiver.

Encourage them to drink plenty of fluids.

If a rash appears, do the glass test.

How long will your child's symptoms last?

Fever caused by a viral infection tends to improve within 2 to 3 days.

If your child's fever lasts for more than 5 days, get them seen by your GP.

The chart below shows how long fever lasts in a child with viral infections. The faces represent 10 children who have seen their GP with a viral infection. Green faces are those children whose fever has recovered within that time period.

The diagrams above are taken from www.whenshouldiworry.com

Watch a local GP and health visitor talking about what they would look out for in a child with a fever:

Where should you seek help?

For wear and tear, minor trips and everything in between.

Self-care

You can treat your child's very minor illnesses and injuries at home.

Some illnesses can be treated in your own home with support and advice from the services listed when required, using the recommended medicines and getting plenty of rest.

Sound advice

Children can recover from illness quickly but also can become more poorly quickly; it is important to seek further advice if a child's condition gets worse.

For information on common childhood illnesses go to What is wrong with my child?

Pharmacists are experts in many aspects of healthcare and can offer advice on a wide range of long-term conditions and common illnesses such as coughs, colds and stomach upsets. You don't need an appointment and many have private consultation areas, so they are a good first port of call. Your pharmacist will say if you need further medical attention.

Sound advice

Visit a pharmacy if your child is ill, but does not need to see a GP.

Remember that if your child's condition gets worse, you should seek further medical advice immediately.

Help your child to understand - watch this video with them about going to the pharmacy.

For information on common childhood illnesses go to What is wrong with my child?

Health visitors are nurses or midwives who are passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing illness through the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme. They work with you through your pregnancy up until your child is ready to start school.

Health Visitors can also make referrals for you to other health professionals for example hearing or vision concerns or to the Community Paediatricians or to the child and adolescent mental health services.

Contact them by phoning your Health Visitor Team or local Children's Centre.

Sound advice

Health visitors also provide advice, support and guidance in caring for your child, including:

Breastfeeding, weaning and healthy eating

Exercise, hygiene and safety

Your child's growth and development

Emotional health and wellbeing, including postnatal depression

Safety in the home

Stopping smoking

Contraception and sexual health

Sleep and behaviour management (including temper tantrums!)

Toilet training

Minor illnesses

For more information watch the video: What does a health visitor do?

School nurses care for children and young people, aged 5-19, and their families, to ensure their health needs are supported within their school and community. They work closely with education staff and other agencies to support parents, carers and the children and young people, with physical and/or emotional health needs.
Contacting the School Nurse
Primary and secondary schools have an allocated school nurse - telephone your child's school to ask for the contact details of your named school nurse.

There is also a specialist nurse who works with families who choose to educate their children at home.

Sound Advice

Before your child starts school your health visitor will meet with the school nursing team to transfer their care to the school nursing service. The school nursing team consists of a school nursing lead, specialist public health practitioners and school health staff nurses.

They all have a role in preventing disease and promoting health and wellbeing, by:-

encouraging healthier lifestyles

offering immunisations

giving information, advice and support to children, young people and their families

supporting children with complex health needs

Each member of the team has links with many other professionals who also work with children including community paediatricians, child and adolescent mental health teams, health visitors and speech and language therapists. The school health nursing service also forms part of the multi-agency services for children, young people and families where there are child protection or safeguarding issues.

GPs assess, treat and manage a whole range of health problems. They also provide health education, give vaccinations and carry out simple surgical procedures. Your GP will arrange a referral to a hospital specialist should you need it.

Sound advice

You have a choice of service:

Doctors/GPs can treat many illnesses that do not warrant a visit to A&E.

Help your child to understand - watch this video with them about visiting the GP or going to a walk in centre

For information on common childhood illnesses go to What is wrong with my child?

If you're not sure which NHS service you need, call 111. An adviser will ask you questions to assess your symptoms and then give you the advice you need, or direct you straightaway to the best service for you in your area.

Sound advice

Use NHS 111 if you are unsure what to do next, have any questions about a condition or treatment or require information about local health services.

For information on common childhood illnesses go to What is wrong with my child?

A&E departments provide vital care for life-threatening emergencies, such as loss of consciousness, suspected heart attacks, breathing difficulties, or severe bleeding that cannot be stopped. If you're not sure it's an emergency, call 111 for advice.

Sound advice

Many visits to A&E and calls to 999 could be resolved by any other NHS services.

If your child's condition is not critical, choose another service to get them the best possible treatment.

Help your child to understand - watch this video with them about going to A&E or riding in an ambulance

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Within 72 hours of your baby’s birth, a specially trained member of staff will perform the Newborn Infant and Physical Examination. This is a thorough check of your baby to see if she or he nees referring to any specialist Doctors or services.

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