Parents / Carers

Parenting teenagers can be very rewarding and equally very challenging.  Trying to balance work, home life and self-care while dealing with additional pressures can be stressful.  We have put together some of the best reliable and free sources of information and advice to help you and your family to cope.


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Exam Stress

Please see this article for some helpful advice for parents whose children are sitting exams:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Qf86MGyCkHlTq4h1tWfknn/advice-for-parents-whose-children-are-sitting-exams

Kooth Resources for Parents

Here are some resources which have been made available from Kooth.  Kooth is an online emotional health support website with lots of useful information including access to counselling. 

Please click here for resources

Please click here for letter sent to parents in March 2024

MHST Webinars for Parents

Achieving for Children’s 'Mental Health Support Teams' are delivering a series of webinars for parents of secondary aged children and young people (CYP).  The ‘Helping teens with …’ series of webinars covers a range of common difficulties experienced by young people and will aim to share evidence-based strategies to help parents and carers support their child with these difficulties. 

Click here for a list of webinars on offer. 

In the third and fourth columns of the table, you will find the sign up links.  Please note that sign up links will be added a month before the webinar dates.   

For more details about the Mental Health Support Team - click here

A leaflet about MHST can be viewed here - click here