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The ELSA support website is full of resources and advice. There is a parent section which provides some free resources.

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Resources for Emotional Literacy Support Assistants - ELSA Support

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Emotional literacy support assistants - or ELSAs - are teaching assistants trained to provide emotional and social skills support to children.

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ELSA

ELSAs are specialist teaching assistants who have been trained to support children with emotional difficulties. We provide children with a quiet place to explore difficult feelings.

Reminding children that all emotions are okay and supporting them to find different ways to manage them.

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East Riding SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service) provides information, advice and support to parents and carers of children or young people (aged 0 – 25) with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) and to children and young people (up to the age of 25) with special educational needs or disabilities. (SENDIASS)

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The families Information Service Hub (FISH) is responsible for providing information to families of children and young people and the professionals who support them.

The friendly and helpful FISH team can help you to find services in the East Riding for children and young people aged 0-20 years.

The team operates a free helpline offering impartial advice and support for young people, parents and carers and professionals who have a role in supporting families. They also maintain the Family Services Directory. (FISH)

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Information on what FISH can do for you, finding childcare, complaining about childcare, children’s centres, out of school activities, baby groups/support and a

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Pocklington Children’s Centre can be found on the Woldgate College school site just a short distance from the main school entrance. The friendly, passionate and knowledgeable staff team work alongside colleagues from Midwifery and Health Visiting to provide a range of activities and services for children and their parents or carers, grandparents or childminders from pregnancy to age 9.We have recently achieved the Gold Standard Baby Friendly Accreditation which enables us to better support families with feeding and developing close, loving relationships with their babies.

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This page lists all East Riding Children’s Centres. Use the search to find out more about a Children’s Centre such as location, contact details, parking and latest programme of activities.

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The underwear rule

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Celebrating 10 years of Talk PANTS!

Pantosaurus has helped 1.5 million parents Talk PANTS and keep their children safe from sexual abuse.

Developed in consultation with children, parents, carers and teachers, Talk PANTS is here to help children understand their body belongs to them, and they should tell a safe adult they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.

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Our PANTS activity pack makes it easy to talk to your child about staying safe from harm. With a word search, dot-to-dot and maze game, you can help them learn without using any scary words.

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Learning how to use the potty independently and stopping wearing nappies is a big milestone for your child. There are lots of new and exciting skills for them to learn with your help.

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Nap times

Once your child has stopped using nappies in the daytime, it's time to think about nap times.

Learning to sleep without a nappy on at naptime and use the potty when they wake up, will help prepare your child for being dry at night.

Tips for managing nappy-free nap times:

Just before nap time, help your child use the potty or toilet, so they are more likely to stay dry.

When you notice the nappy is staying dry at least some of the time, stop using a nappy at nap time.

Accidents are common during the first few months. Use a waterproof sheet or similar underneath your child, to protect their sleep area.

Lots of children need to use the potty when they wake so help them to do this.

Using praise and rewards to motivate your child

Research shows that rewards such as sweets or sticker charts may help your child initially, but they can stop working quickly.

For most children, encouraging and supporting them to be as independent as possible is the best way to motivate them.

Tips for keeping your child motivated:

Give your child plenty of encouragement and praise their efforts. When your child uses the potty or manages to stay dry, even if it's just for a short time, tell them how pleased you are.

Try to stay calm when accidents happen and do not make a big fuss.

Give your child the opportunity to do things for themselves as far as possible. This will help them to feel in control, positive and relaxed about the process.

Use favourite toys, books or songs to help them feel comfortable on the potty.

Try to avoid prompting or asking your child too often. Instead, wait until you think they need to go and then direct them gently, e.g. "it's toilet time" or "let's get that wee/poo in the potty!"

Be clear, confident and consistent so your child knows what you are asking them to do.

Managing potty training accidents

It is normal to have lots of accidents at the beginning and they are an important part of the learning process. This is a big step for your child, so be patient and encourage them.

Tips for managing accidents:

When your child has an accident, clean it up together and remind them to use the potty next time.

Do not shame or punish your child about accidents, as stress and upset can make it harder for you and your child to learn together.

It's important not to pretend an accident hasn't happened. Help them get clean and dry as soon as possible and involve your child in this process. Gently explain that you want them to use the potty next time.

Potty training out and about

When you first stop using nappies, choose a time when you can stay home with your child for a few days, so you can do some one to one learning with them.

Tips to make your first trips out easier to manage:

Don't forget your potty and spares of everything just in case!

Make trips out short to begin with.

Dress your child in clothes that are easy for them to push down and pull up again.

Avoid putting your child back in a pull up or nappy for outings. This will confuse them and undo all that learning.

A travel potty and washable car seat cover can come in handy.

Using the toilet away from home is a good thing for your child to get used to. Talk to them about things like how the flush at the supermarket is different from the one at home or nursery for example.

We have an excellent range of products to help with this stage including portable potties and car seat covers.

Potty training at nursery & pre-school

Many children spend part of their day being looked after by someone other than you and away from home.

For potty training to go well, your child needs a consistent approach to help them learn what they need to do whether they're at home or in childcare.

As soon as your child starts attending the setting, communicate about their bladder and bowel health. Ask the staff to tell you about the child's poos, so you can keep track and avoid constipation.

Find out what they are offered to drink to you can supplement appropriately at the beginning and end of the session. If the setting will only offer water, and your child is reluctant to consume enough water, talk to staff. Offer to supply juice or squash for them to dilute; it is vital for your child to stay well hydrated when they are away from home.

Start conversations about potty practice as soon as your child can sit up. Settings may regard potty training as something to attempt when the child is older; share this information so they too can see the benefits of potty practice.

When you are thinking about stopping using nappies, plan with the staff. Agree dates together with your child's caregivers so everyone is ready to support them. Time what you are doing at home to fit in with the setting.

Avoid starting to wear pants when the child is about to change rooms at nursery - that will be a big enough upheaval for them.

Tell the staff about the language you use at home for wee and poo.

Talk to the staff at the beginning and end of each session so everyone knows how things are going both at the setting and back at home. Use our potty training record so staff can keep track of their progress.

More information and free resources for childcare settings to support potty learning.
Getting dry at night

The age at which children become dry at night varies hugely. For some, it follows on quite quickly after achieving daytime dryness. For others, the wetting carries on after the age of 5 and treatment will be advised.

It is not your child's fault if they wet during sleep.

There are however lots of things you can do to gradually work towards night time dryness including:

Help your child get into the habit of using the potty or toilet at bedtime.

As well as making sure they are drinking plenty during the daytime, work on a good bedtime drinking routine as well. STOP drinks one hour before bedtime, every night, and no more after that till morning. Our Wee Checker has information on how much children should drink for their age.

Prepare your child for sleep. Unwind with a book or listen to music with the lights turned low. NO screens - so no TV, iPad, computer games in the hour before sleep, or the brain will get the wrong message!

Avoid lifting - in other words waking your child to take them to the toilet - if you want to work on stopping bedwetting. It might keep the bed dry, but it encourages the child to wee during sleep as they don't really wake up.

If your child is still wetting the bed when they are 5, see our Advice for Children with Night Time Wetting factsheet for more information and help.

Common potty training problems

Taking your time leading your child through the preparation and practice stages should help to avoid the most common potty training problems.

If you feel as though it's all gone wrong and they're just not getting it, it's ok to stop, go back to the preparation stage and start again.

Could they be constipated?

Constipation affects 1 in 3 children and is especially common in under 5s. Your child may be struggling because they have some underlying constipation that was there before you started potty training.

So stop, treat the constipation and then try stopping the nappies again once it is all under control. Carry on with potty practice - this in itself is an important part of constipation treatment.
Are they drinking enough?
Sometime the bladder misbehaves and we realise that our child is simply not drinking enough.

Once again, you don't have to go right back to the beginning, but go back to the potty practice stage while you increase your child's fluid intake.

Try not to panic if it seems as if they just aren't getting it. Some children take longer to learn, and just need more time.

Reassure your child that their wees and poos will learn to go in the potty, they just need more practice!

Get more information and help with common potty training problems.

FAQs

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Potty training: how to start & best age to potty train - ERIC

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We've broken down potty training into 3 easy steps: preparation, practice and perfecting those skills! Use our step by step guide to help your toddler become toilet trained.

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Little Parachutes: Picture books to help children

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Little Parachutes helps you to find children’s picture books about your child’s worries, experiences and milestones. Our children’s book reviews library contains hundreds of picture books about sharing, moving house, starting school, potty training and the arrival of a new baby. There are also children’s books about more challenging situations: bereavement, adoption, divorce and serious illness.

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Our local youth Centre provide support for children aged 11 - 18.

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ABOUT

YPC is your place. A space for all young people aged between 11 and 18 living in or around Pocklington. It's your place to call your own and to be yourself. We're here to offer support, any advice and training. We want to help you to bring out the best in you. We're all about embracing talent through events and bringing people together.

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Opening Times

Tuesday 4pm - 8pm

Wednesday 4pm - 8pm

Thursday 4pm - 8pm

Friday 4pm - 8pm

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YPC | Pocklington | Support for Young people aged 11 - 18

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YPC is a space for young people, giving them a place to chill-out and call their own. Ensuring every opportunity to succeed and achieve, helping young people reach their potential and bring out the best in them.

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Mental Health Support

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We’re Mind, the mental health charity | Mind

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We're Mind, the mental health charity. We're here to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone.

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Autism is a lifelong developmental disability which affects how people communicate and interact with the world. More than one in 100 people are on the autism spectrum and there are around 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK. (NAS)

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A definition of autism with an overview of communication, behaviours and interests, and sensory processing differences needed for an autism diagnosis.

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NHS what is autism?

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Autistic people may act in a different way to other people

Autistic people may:

find it hard to communicate and interact with other people

find it hard to understand how other people think or feel

find things like bright lights or loud noises overwhelming, stressful or uncomfortable

get anxious or upset about unfamiliar situations and social events

take longer to understand information

do or think the same things over and over

If you think you or your child may be autistic, get advice about the signs of autism.

Autism is not an illness

Being autistic does not mean you have an illness or disease. It means your brain works in a different way from other people.

It's something you're born with. Signs of autism might be noticed when you're very young, or not until you're older.

If you're autistic, you're autistic your whole life.

Autism is not a medical condition with treatments or a "cure". But some people need support to help them with certain things.

Autistic people can live a full life

Being autistic does not have to stop you having a good life.

Like everyone, autistic people have things they're good at as well as things they struggle with.

Being autistic does not mean you can never make friends, have relationships or get a job. But you might need extra help with these things.

Autism is different for everyone

Autism is a spectrum. This means everybody with autism is different.

Some autistic people need little or no support. Others may need help from a parent or carer every day.

Some people use other names for autism

There are other names for autism used by some people, such as:

autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the medical name for autism

Asperger's (or Asperger syndrome) is used by some people to describe autistic people with average or above average intelligence

More about Asperger's

People with Asperger's do not have the same learning disabilities that many people with autism have, but they might have a specific learning difficulty.

Some people call this "high-functioning" autism.

Doctors do not diagnose people with Asperger's anymore because it's now thought of as part of autism spectrum disorder. But if you were diagnosed with it before, this will stay as your diagnosis.

It's not clear what causes autism

Nobody knows what causes autism, or if it has a cause.

It can affect people in the same family. So it may sometimes be passed on to a child by their parents.

Autism is:

not caused by bad parenting

not caused by vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine

not linked to diet

not an infection you can spread to other people

Autistic people can have any level of intelligence

Some autistic people have average or above average intelligence.

Some autistic people have a learning disability. This means they may find it hard to look after themselves and need help with daily life.

Autistic people may have other conditions

Autistic people often have other conditions, such as:

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

dyslexia

anxiety

depression

epilepsy

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Find out what autism is and how it affects people.

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Bereavement is something that unfortunately all families experience and sometimes children can experience this at a much younger age than anyone would care to imagine. Here are a few book recommendations.

Badger parting gifts - Susan Varley - A sensitive picture book helping children to understand death in a gentle and comforting way.

Is Daddy coming back in a minute? - Elke and Alex Barber - Explaining (Sudden) death in words very young children can understand.

Sad Book - Michael Rosen - A story about his own sadness and loss.

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Activity book for young children coping with Bereavement

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Activity book for young children coping with Bereavement

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A wonderful activity book for young children coping with bereavement.

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Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine offers practical and sensitive support for bereaved children. Beautifully illustrated, it suggests a helpful series of activities and exercises accompanied by the friendly characters of Bee and Bear. This book offers a structure and an outlet for the many difficult feelings which inevitably follow when someone dies. It aims to help children make sense of their experience by reflecting on the different aspects of their grief, whilst finding a balance between remembering and having fun. This book is a useful companion in the present, and will become an invaluable keepsake in the years to come.

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Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine - Paperback: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died (Early Years)

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Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine offers practical and sensitive support for bereaved children. Beautifully illustrated, it suggests a helpful series of activities and exercises accompanied by the friendly characters of Bee and Bear. This book offers a structure and an outlet for the many difficult f...

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Talking to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer 

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A podcast to offer support and advice when speaking to children and young adults about cancer. Also available as a booklet.

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This audiobook is about talking to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer. It is for parents with cancer, but it can also be used by other adults, such as partners, grandparents and family members.

This audiobook is about talking to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer. It is for parents with cancer, but it can also be used by other adults, such as partners, grandparents and family members.

Macmillan Support Line

The Macmillan Support Line is a free and confidential phone service for people living and affected by cancer. If you need to talk, we'll listen.

Financial guidance

Financial issues can cause worry when someone becomes ill. You may be able to claim benefits to help you in your situation. You may also be able to get financial assistance from other organisations.

Welfare rights advice and tools

There are lots of benefits that could help you after a cancer diagnosis, but the system can be confusing. Our Welfare Rights Advisors are here to help.

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Talking to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer audiobook

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This audiobook provides support and advice to anyone wondering how to talk to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer. Listen now.

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Our local libraries offer lots for families.

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Get online

All East Riding Libraries are part of the Online Centres Network. You can access free, self-paced IT courses with Learn My Way and 400+ free Technology Guides from Digital Unite on our computers. You have access to the following at this library. Charges only apply for printing and photocopying. (See our Fees and Charges):

Six computers

Two children's computers

Adjustable height desk for wheelchair users

Large keyboard

Joystick mouse

Accessibility software: Microsoft magnifier, narrator and on-screen keyboard

Free Wi-Fi, internet and email access

Google docs, sheets and slides software

A4 scanner

Colour and black and white printing

Stay hydrated

East Riding Libraries are part of the refill network for free water. Just ask any member of staff to fill your water bottle for you.

Welcoming places

East Riding libraries are offering warm welcoming places, with comfy seating, books, games and jigsaws.

Public transport

Pocklington bus station is one minute's walk from the library on Station Road.

Parking

There is free parking opposite the library on West Garth, and behind the library opposite the bus station, including two disabled parking spaces.

Location accessibility

Wheelchair access via street level flat entrance, automatic doors.

Only assistance dogs are allowed on site.

There is an area where up to 10 single buggies, or up to 2 mobility scooters or 2 wheelchairs, can be stored while you visit the library. There is no need to pre-book these spaces if attending an event at the library.

Please note, all items are left at the owner's risk and East Riding Libraries cannot be held liable.

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All East Riding Libraries are part of the Online Centres Network. You can access free, self-paced IT courses with Learn My Way and 400+ free Technology Guides from Digital Unite on our computers. You have access to the following at this library. Charges only apply for printing and photocopying.

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A beautiful book to help children who find separation from loved ones difficult.

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A powerful story helping children mend their broken feelings with parent separation.

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A story to help children dealing with anxiety.

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Beautiful workbooks to help support children with anxiety and helping them to feel calm.

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Helping children to understand that all emotions are okay.

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Two supportive books full of activities to help children understand and deal with anger.

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To encourage children to understand more about their own emotions and how to manage them with the help of MR. Men and Little Miss.

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Hull and East Riding SEND sleep service (Hull) - Kids

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Our sleep workshops support your through your children’s sleep issues.