Under 18 and worried about online abuse? To report, click to visit the CEOP Safety Centre.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection: http://ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/
Please refer to these pages to ensure your child is safe online and know what to do if their activity online becomes an issue.
Internet and Phone Safety: Think You Know?
E-safety - Support for parents and carers to keep children safe online
Wandsworth Information and Advice Service for families
Kooth– Free, safe, anonymous online support for young people
Tel: 0800 028 8000 – 24 hours a day, seven days a week
The support line is run by expert clinicians from South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and is open to children, young people, adults and professionals.
The Anna Freud Centre has resources that offer advice and guidance to parents and carers of children and young people under 25 years old, who may be struggling with poor mental health.
Web: www.annafreud.org/parents-and-carers
Email: info@annafreud.org
Switchboard: 020 7794 2313
To speak confidentially to an Off The Record counsellor, call the support line number on 0800 980 7475 (open every Saturday from 10am – 1pm).
Shout offers confidential 24/7 crisis text support for times when immediate assistance is required.
Text “SHOUT” to 85258 or visit www.giveusashout.org
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year – they are here to listen and to provide support.
Tel: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.org
Papyrus provide confidential support and advice to young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, and anyone worried about a young person.
Call: 0800 068 4141
Text: 07860 039 967 – open 9am to midnight, 365 days a year.
Confidential telephone counselling service for any child with a problem. Call 0800 1111 anytime or chat online with a counsellor.
Tel: 0800 1111
Web: www.childline.org.uk
The Mix provides free confidential support for young people under 25.
Call: 0808 808 4994
Text THEMIX to 85258
Web: www.themix.org.uk
The Beat provides support to young people who may be struggling with an eating problem or an eating disorder. The Beat has two helplines open between 9am and 8pm Monday to Friday, and between 4 and 8pm on Saturday and Sunday.
If you are under 18, call the Youthline on 0808 801 0711
If you are aged between 18 and 25, call the Studentline on 0808 801 0811
If you are a child or young person, or a parent or carer concerned about a young person’s mental health, you can contact the SLP CAMHS Crisis Line on 020 3228 5980 between 5pm and 11pm Monday to Friday, or between 9am and 11pm on Saturdays and Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Tel: 020 3228 5980
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Feeling anxious? Stressed out? Not sleeping properly? Good Thinking helps to boost mental wellbeing, using digital resources, including some fantastic free wellbeing apps and top tips to help children and young people get through the tough times.
Web: www.good-thinking.uk
Download the Good Thinking apps
Stem4 is a charity that promotes positive mental health in teenagers and those who support them including their families and carers, education professionals, as well as school nurses and GPs through the provision of mental health education, resilience strategies and early intervention. This is primarily provided digitally through pioneering mental health apps, clinically-informed website and mental health conferences that contribute to helping young people and those around them flourish. The apps include: Calm Harm, Clear Fear, Move Mood, Combined Minds.
Web: www.stem4.org.uk
Email: admin@stem4.org.uk
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/female-genital-mutilation-fgm
The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. The full Government Prevent Strategy can be viewed here. Prevent Strategy (anti-radicalisation) concerns:
counter.extremism@education.gsi.gov.uk
Domestic Violence: National Helpline: http://thehideout.org.uk/
Preventing Bullying: Kidscape: https://www.kidscape.org.uk/
Forced Marriage concerns: http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/
