Improved Parenting Skills
Description
To provide advice and information to parents on all aspects of family life.
Different approaches/programmes/interventions
Barnardo’s Integrated Early Help Services
In April 2015 Barnardo’s started developing Integrated Early Help Services (IEHS) on behalf on the
Isle of Wight Council. The new IEHS are being delivered in three localities and bring together the
following services:
 Children’s Centres
 5 – 19 Parenting and Family Support
 The IOW Strengthening Families Programme
 Early years parenting support provided by Homestart.
Families will be able to access all the Universal and Early Help Support they need when they need it
most regardless of their child’s age.
Families will experience seamless transition through the levels of support they need throughout
their family journey.
A new range of 0 – 19 universal health and wellbeing services will be built on the core children’s
centre offer to meet the needs of all local families in local areas.
Universal Support will include:
New Parents/carers: Information Advice and Guidance (IAG), ante-natal support, baby massage,
breast feeding support, early communication skills, Five to Thrive, Baby Incredible Years, baby stay
and play, weaning advice, Smoke Free Homes, HomeStart support.
Toddlers & Pre-schoolers: IAG, language building, Book Start, themed stay & play sessions, healthy
eating, dental hygiene, Toddler Incredible Years, supporting school readiness, positive parenting,
HomeStart support.
Primary Age: IAG, healthy emotional and physical development, positive parenting, behaviour
management, supporting school transitions, Family Links Programme, Solihull Approach Parenting
Course, play based counselling.
Secondary Age Young People: IAG, Counselling, healthy relationship, Sexual Health, Drug & Alcohol
IAG, positive parenting, understanding adolescence, Teen Triple P programme.
Adults & Families: Adult education and training, volunteering opportunities, budgeting advice,
smoking cessation support, healthy eating on a budget.
Targeted Family Support
IEHS also offers two levels of Outreach Family Support working with families in their own homes to
outcomes agreed in an Early Help Family Plan or CIN/CP plan. This support is available to any family
subject to an Early Help Assessment (EHA) where family support is an identified need. Support may
be at a targeted level and last between 3-6 months as part of a wider TAF process, or an intensive
level for up to a year for families with more complex needs.
Requests for family support are made via a new EHA or a TAF review direct to the IOW Early Help
Team. Requests can also be made for families open to social care by completion of the internal
nomination form. The nominations for support are then presented at weekly locality triage
meetings.
Locality Working:
Early Help Services will be delivered in three localities across the Island. Each locality will have a hub
site open Mon – Fri from 9am to 5pm and spoke sites at advertised times.
 North East Wight Locality Hub: Ryde Early Help Centre, George Street, Ryde, IoW, PO33 2JF
Spokes: The Bungalow @ Ryde Academy, East Cowes Early Help Centre
Tel: 01983 617617. Email: [email protected]
 South Wight Locality Hub: Sandown Early Help Centre, Fairway, Sandown, IoW, PO36 9EQ
Spokes: Shanklin and Ventnor Early Help Centres.
Tel: 01983 408718. Email: [email protected]
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West and Central Wight Locality Hub: West Newport Early Help Centre, Wellington Road,
Newport, IoW, PO30 5QT
Spokes: Cowes, East Newport, & West Wight Early Help Centres.
Tel: 01983 537390. Email: [email protected]
Each locality will provide the full range of core universal and targeted services. In addition each
locality will respond to local need and develop a specialism in a particular area of local relevance.
Barnardo’s IOW Central Office: 60 Pyle Street, Newport, IoW, PO30 1UL
Tel: 01983 520006. Email: [email protected]
Home-Start - We provide one-to-one support for parents with children one of which must be under
the age of five. Our volunteers visit the family’s home for a couple of hours every week. They tailormake their support to the needs of the parents and children. Volunteers are very committed and will
keep visiting until the youngest child turns five or starts school, or until the parents feel they can
stand on their own two feet. Parents and volunteers often develop a deeply trusting relationship
which can lead to powerful change within the family. We also run family groups and social events for
families.
BBC
On line information for parents. The web based resource covers all subjects and ages, is easy to
navigate and use with different age ranges and topics signposted.
Young Minds
Young Minds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental
health of children and young people. Driven by their experiences we campaign, research and
influence policy and practice.
We also provide expert knowledge to professionals, parents and young people through our Parents'
Helpline, online resources, training and development, outreach work and publications.
Netmums
Most parents would like ideas or help with their parenting at some time in their child's life. At
Netmums, we’re into Real Parenting – the idea that being a “good enough” parent rather than a
perfect parent is simply enough. This course, which we have put together with our friends at Family
Links, aims to give us parent’s faith in our own abilities, to know that we are “good enough”.
The course comes in 3 parts with regular emails over 8 weeks (with a week off in between each part
of the course).*
 Part 1, Getting the Best, covers praise, discipline and keeping calm; it looks at some helpful
strategies for getting the best from your children.
 Part 2, Stopping the Worst, deals with family rules, behaviour, self- esteem and choices; it
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focuses on understanding and managing worst behaviour and agreeing family boundaries.
Part 3, Families Together, covers feelings, nurture and labels; it explores how relationships
with our children work and looks at having fun together. There are also some useful tools to
keep things going.
Netmums have joined with Family Links to develop this online parenting course. Family links have
been running parenting courses in the UK for over a decade.
Their course is called the 'Nurturing Programme'. They know that no two families are the same, so
the programme does not tell you what to do, but shares information and ideas so you can try out
and see what works well for you and your family.
There 4U group work
There 4U is a Key Stage 2 resource that aims to foster positive peer relationships through a
structured programme of activities which include discussion, role play and circle time based
activities. There 4U groups provide children with the skills to improve their listening skills, turn
taking, conflict resolution skills and empathy towards others.
The programme draws on a number of theoretical frameworks including Circles of Friends (Peer
support), Circle Time, Illuminative Research and Protective Behaviours to ensure the children’s
emotional and social needs are met in a structured and creative way. For further information on any
of these frameworks please click on the relevant link:
 Circle of Friends www.inclusive-solutions.com
 Circle Time www.circle-time.co.uk
 Protective Behaviours www.protectivebehaviours.co.uk
Seeds4Change
seeds4change offers hope and practical help to families who are stuck, offering them choices, new
perspectives and experiences to help them see things differently and move forward. We can support
families through the process of change, this may be due to life experiences involving:
 divorce, separation, family breakdown or domestic abuse
 substance misuse (whole family model)
 bereavement or trauma
 redundancy or transition at home, nursery, school or college
 disability, illness or mental health issues
Our team is currently working to help parents & carers understand children's emotional &
behavioural communication opening up empowering family dialogues with school, health & social
services.
Our creative workshops offer families the opportunity to express themselves & their individual life
journey through the mediums of art, music, drama, dance & therapeutic play.
We look at storytelling & the narratives we tell ourselves about our identity or who we are in
relationship with others. We offer challenge in the form of risk taking exercises to develop a new life
script about the roles we perform, the positions we take up & the potential seeds4change that
are within us.
The seeds4change project is a registered charity and is helping children and families transform their
lives through therapeutic family experiences, backed by a Christian ethos.
Our team can offer a child focussed support package which includes building parenting
skills, offering couples conciliation work & conflict resolution.
We work in pairs or teams to offer families a multi perspective opportunity
We aim to instil hope in ongoing relationships & nurture families’ growth towards repair & recovery.
Family Lives
Find advice on all aspects of family life from bonding with your new baby, dealing with tantrums,
positive discipline, bullying, communicating with teens and divorce and separation. You can also chat
to us online for support or call our confidential helpline.
Families and Schools Together (FAST)
Families and Schools Together is an award-winning early-intervention programme which brings
parents, children, teachers and the wider community together, to make sure children get the
support they need to fulfil their potential at school – and in life.
We believe every child should be happy at school and have the chance to fulfil their potential. We
also know how important it is for parents to get the support they need to help their child achieve,
learn and develop.
That's why Save the Children is working in partnership with Middlesex University to deliver FAST in
areas of deprivation and where high numbers of children receive free school meals. Together, we’re
committed to creating a lasting legacy for early-intervention and parental support.
Gingerbread
Provide advice and practical support for single parents. Expert advisers answer their helpline, their
website is packed full of useful information and they offer training too. Gingerbread also campaign
to improve the lives of all single parent families and because they’re a national charity, it’s all free.
Isle of Wight College
The Isle of Wight College run short courses for parents, grandparents or carers and offer Tutor input
and group discussions, question and answer sessions, sharing experiences and solutions and
practical workshops.
Children’s Legal Centre
Children's Legal Centre provides free legal information, advice and representation to children, young
people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as international consultancy on child law and
children’s rights.
FIZ (Family Information Zone)
FIZ is the Isle of Wight’s family information service which provides impartial information and
signposting services to families, children and young people under the age of 20 year (or up to 25
years for young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities).
Services available
Isle of Wight
Barnardo’s IEHS
 North East Wight Locality Hub: Ryde Early Help Centre, George Street, Ryde, IoW, PO33 2JF
Spokes: The Bungalow @ Ryde Academy, East Cowes Early Help Centre
Tel: 01983 617617. Email: [email protected]
 South Wight Locality Hub: Sandown Early Help Centre, Fairway, Sandown, IoW, PO36 9EQ
Spokes: Shanklin and Ventnor Early Help Centres.
Tel: 01983 408718. Email: [email protected]

West and Central Wight Locality Hub: West Newport Early Help Centre, Wellington Road,
Newport, IoW, PO30 5QT
Spokes: Cowes, East Newport, & West Wight Early Help Centres.
Tel: 01983 537390. Email: [email protected]
Homestart
Tel: 01983 533357
Web site: http://www.homestartisleofwight.org.uk/
Seeds4Change
 Telephone: 01983 533813 or 07970 490597
 Website: http://www.seeds4change.org.uk
Isle of Wight College
 Website: http://shortcourses.iwcollege.ac.uk/courses/childhood-studies/
 Telephone: 01983 526631
FIZ (Family Information Zone)
 Telephone: 01983 821999
 Email: [email protected]
 Website: www.wightchyps.org.uk
Nationally
BBC Grown Ups
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=grown%20ups
Family Links
 Telephone: 01865 401800
 Email: [email protected]
 Website: https://www.familylinks.org.uk/
Netmums
 Website: http://www.netmums.com/parenting-support/parenting-advice/netmumsparenting-course-about-the-courses
Family Lives
 Website: www.familylives.org.uk
 Confidential Helpline: 0808 800 2222
Families and School Together (FAST)
 Email: [email protected]
 Website: http://familiesandschoolstogether.com/
 Telephone: 0207 012 6400
Gingerbread
 Website: http://www.gingerbread.org.uk/
 Telephone: 0808 802 0925
Children’s Legal Centre
 Website: http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/
Young Minds
 Telephone: 0808 802 5544
 Website: http://www.youngminds.org.uk/