Wellbeing
Looking after your wellbeing or looking after the wellbeing of others is key. Sometimes we may need help or we would like advice and there are many agencies and support services ready to listen and to offer support. Please find below some useful links to health and wellbeing websites for you to use. Remember our Home School Link Worker is also on hand to offer advice or to help you access support.
Calm Zone Activities
Dove Bereavement Counselling Service
Arch: specialist advice on domestic violence, homelessness and social issues
Parent Support contacts
What support is available to parents to help them maintain their family’s wellbeing during in light of COVID-19?
Social connections, alongside exercise, sleep, diet and routine, are important protective factors for mental health.
Materials to promote and support mental wellbeing are available to help children to learn at home. The Department of Health and Social Care is providing £5 million of additional funding to support mental health charities to increase their provision for adults and children at this time.
Social isolation, reduced exercise and bereavement may affect children’s wellbeing in this period. Resources to promote and support children and young people’s mental wellbeing include:
- MindEd educational resources for adults about children and young people’s mental health which is relevant for parents and carers as well as volunteers, teachers, and other professionals working with children
- Every Mind Matters which supports looking after your own and other’s mental health
- guidance on looking after wellbeing and mental health during the coronavirus outbreak
- guidance on supporting children’s wellbeing and mental health
All NHS mental health trusts are setting up 24/7 helplines and seeking to use digital and virtual channels to continue delivering support during the coronavirus outbreak.