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This webpage is here for you to use if you feel worried. Below are some links to sites that can help you. Click the images below or copy from the link column into your search bar.

If you are a pupil at Upton who is worried and you want to send a message to someone at school, you can press the ‘CLICK HERE’ button below and type a message. When we get your message, we will try our best to understand and help you.

 

For extra useful resources, support and helpline details whether you are a member of staff, a child or a parent/carer, please click the links below or see attachments at the bottom of this page.

Please scroll down the page for more useful webpages.

Parent Webinars

Emotional Regulation

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Boundaries

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Anxiety

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EXTRA RESOURCES FOR ANXIETY

Websites for young people seeking help

Company

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Barnardo's wants to speak to children and young people, directly over the phone; to listen to you, understand your situation and make a plan with you about how they can help you. 

https://www.barnardos.org.uk/see-hear-respond/self-referral

Kooth. A website which offers free, confidential support and advice.

https://www.kooth.com/

 

Childline. A website offering free, confidential support and advice to children.

https://www.childline.org.uk/

 

Young Minds. A website that offers free, confidential support and advice about mental health and wellbeing.

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/get-urgent-help/#are-you-a-young-person-in-crisis

 

The Mix. This site offers a helpline, email, live chat, telephone counselling service and crisis text line for anyone under 25 years old wanting support.

https://www.themix.org.uk/

Websites for parents or carers seeking help

 

Barnardo's wants to speak to parents and carers, directly over the phone; to listen to you, understand your situation and make a plan with you about how they can help you.

https://www.barnardos.org.uk/see-hear-respond/carer-referral

 

BBC SEND Parents’ Toolkit. A website with videos and clips to help parents to support children’s mental health and wellbeing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh9v382

 

NSPCC. A website to help keep children safe.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/our-services/nspcc-helpline/

 

Young Minds. A website to support young people’s wellbeing and mental health. There is a parent helpline.

https://youngminds.org.uk/contact-us/

 

Samaritans. A website, with phone number, for those who need support.

https://www.samaritans.org/

Kent School Health

https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/service/school-health/

 

Coronavirus Support

 

Covibook. For children aged seven and under to explain and draw the emotions they might be experiencing during the pandemic.

www.mindheart.co/descargables

 

Nanogirl. Videos explaining Covid-19 and why it is important to wash our hands/ sneeze and cough into our elbows.

www.nanogirllive.co.nz/coronavirus-soap-experiment

 

NPR. A comic strip to help children understand what the coronavirus is and respond to some common questions and worries they may have.

www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda

/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus?t=1584358951699&t=1584454700885 

 

Anna Freud. Advice for young people about managing their mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus situation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME5IZn4-BAk&feature=youtu.be

Anna Freud. Clear, simple advice to all those who are supporting children and young people - including to young people themselves.

www.annafreud.org/coronavirus

 

BBC Newsbeat. Advice to cope with self-isolation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51960752

 

The British Psychological Society. Coping with life in isolation and confinement.

www.thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/coping-life-isolation-and-confinement-during-covid-19-pandemic

 

Psychology Today. Toolbox for families during coronavirus.

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/pulling-through/202004/the-pandemic-toolkit-parents-need?eml

 

NHS. Mental health helplines.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines

 

Porchlight Be You Project. Support for 8-25 year olds from the LGBT+ community and parents and carers.

www.thebeyouproject.co.uk

 

Shout. Crisis support.

Text ‘Kent’ to 85258

 

Fegans. Free ‘parenting in a pandemic’ resources. 

www.fegans.org.uk/family-hub

 

Kent County Council. Coronavirus service updates.

www.kent.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-service-updates

 

Porchlight. Find help and advice today if you face losing your job or home, or you're struggling to feed your family.

https://www.porchlight.org.uk/information-support/information-on-coronavirus

 

Kent County Council. Local SEND support.

www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/special-educational-needs

 

National Autistic Society. Resources and advice for ASC.

 

www.autism.org.uk/services/helplines/

 coronavirus/resources.aspx

 

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Upton Junior School
Edge End Road
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2AH

(01843) 861393