Family help
Becoming a parent or carer is a rewarding experience, but this can also come with new challenges for us all.
Family Help is a service at Leicestershire County Council which provides you and your family with help early on when you are experiencing difficulties that can’t be supported by other services alone, such as schools or GPs.
Family Help can provide support and signposting for:
- extra help with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability)
- mental health and wellbeing
- domestic abuse (past or present) and ongoing arguing at home between parents
- parenting teenagers and young people (including those who are at risk of crime).
Support and advice is available for your family
Pregnancy, baby and parenting.
Health visiting and school nursing.
Your health visiting service.
Key messages from neuroscience for early intervention and life-long learning.
When babies cry it can be stressful and overwhelming. Help is out there – all you need to do is ask.
Home-Start works with families in communities across the UK.
Teen Health 11-19 Service – delivered by Leicestershire County Council.
One Plus one
One Plus One resources are aimed at supporting parents to strengthen their relationships with people in their lives and offers short online resources to help think about struggles we face in different situations:
Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme)
Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) is a parenting programme that gives parents simple and practical strategies to help them build strong, healthy relationships, confidently manage their children’s behaviour and prevent problems developing.
More information on the different types of Triple P groups
For parents of children from 2 to 12, our Primary sessions Helps families to deal with specific problem behaviour and prevent problems from developing.
For parents with children aged 6 – 14 years with anxiety that is affecting their everyday life. Help for parents to support their children to worry less and be more confident through practical strategies which all family members can access.
For parents of children from 2 to 12 where children have a disability, neurological or developmental disorder. Helps with ways to deal with the kinds of childhood behaviour problems and issues that can make family life stressful.
For parents of teenagers (11- 16). To help with building better relationships with parent and teenagers, keeping their teenager safe and reducing family conflict.
Togetherness
Free online courses to help support your child's emotional wellbeing.
Support for dads
Just like mums, dads play a really important role in their children's lives, but often need different help and advice.
Support and advice is available for dads
Dad Pad is an online guide for dads (especially new dads) who may feel they need a bit of a helping hand to navigate being a new parent. You can find out more at the following link: The DadPad App | The Essential Guide for New Dads
Work with dads and male carers across the UK and have years of experience of supporting families.
Dads clubs
A fun stay and play for dads/male carers and their children. Check out the Family Hubs in Leicestershire that run these FREE Saturday morning sessions to find a group close to you.
Hinckley - Third Saturday of every month 9.30am - 11.30am To book your place call: 0116 305 5601
Wigston Magna - First Saturday of each month. Call 0116 305 5282 for more information.
Mountfields (Loughborough) - 1st Saturday of every month 10am - 12pm. Call 0116 305 2880 for more information.
Greenhill (Coalville) - 2nd Saturday of every month 10am – 12pm. Call 0116 305 5993 for more information.
Support for Carers
Being a Carer for someone can be both rewarding and challenging in equal measures, so it is important that if you or someone you are working with is taking on that role, you/they know what help and support is available.
This information pack tells you about what support is available if you are a Carer, Young Adult Carer or Young Carer
