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The Family Grapevine
Advice Hub
This is a dedicated space designed to support and empower families through life’s many ups and downs. Here, you’ll find advice on a wide range of useful and relevant topics, with guidance from local and nationally recognized experts in many fields. If there is a topic you’d like us to cover, please get in touch by emailing [email protected]
We aim to support families with practical advice and solutions to help you navigate all aspects of modern life, ensuring a healthier, safer, and happier future for everyone.
Co-parenting and school holidays – navigating a tricky issue
Taking children on holiday is tricky at the best of times: trying to remember to pack everything; negotiating with teenagers about not being able to spend time with their friends/phones; dealing with airports and inevitable travel delays. But throw in being a separated parent to the mix and it adds a further layer of complexity.
Splash Safety at Your Pad
Following the worrying findings from the Royal Life Saving Society UK’s Child Drowning Update (September 2024) (RLSS UK), the national drowning prevention charity has created a new campaign to share helpful hints and tips around water safety at home.
Children’s mental health videos launch for parents and carers
A series of online videos to help parents and carers support their children to manage a range of mental health conditions are now available.
Smartphone Free Childhood – WhatsApp Community
At the beginning of February [2024], a couple of mums from Suffolk set up a WhatsApp group for people interested in holding off on giving their child a smartphone.
‘First of its kind’ Eating Disorder Support for young people in Sussex
A revolutionary way to help young people with eating disorders has gone live in Sussex. The Spring Tide Eating Disorder Day Service, which has opened its doors in Hove [Feb 2023], is the first of its kind in the county and only one of four in the South East to offer an alternative to inpatient care.
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