Parenting Smart (Place2Be)
The children's mental health charity, Place2Be, has launched a new website aimed at helping parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children.
Advice can be found on over forty topics including:
- Understanding sibling rivalry 
- My child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do?
- My child has trouble going to sleep
- My child says ‘I hate you!’
- Cultural identity: who am I?
The Parenting Smart website can found here: https://parentingsmart.
Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) - www.blackpool.gov.uk/sendiass
Contact - for families with disabled children
A short online course for parents on how to identify the signs of CSE
Blackpool Family Information Service - www.blackpool.gov.uk/fis
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/index.html
News from Blackpool Better Start
ParentView toolkit for schools
Anti Bullying Information - http://www.childline.org.uk/Explore/Bullying/Pages/Bullying.aspx
Other Useful Info
Activity providers
Drop-in Group for young people between 10-16 years old
Dates: 16th January, 30th January, 13th February, 27th February, 13th March, 27th March, 10th April, 24th April 2018
Time: 5.00 - 7.00pm
Venue: Talbot and Brunswick Chidren's Centre
Contact details: Diana Barker
Call: 01253 651190
Email: john.stainton@bfwhospitals.nhs.uk
Blackpool Bears multi disability sports
Venue: Blackpool Sports Centre, West Park Drive
Contact details: Ian Howson
Call: 01253 761144
Email: blackpoolbears@aol.com
Blackpool Bears ‘Little Bears’
Venue: Woodlands School, Whitegate Drive
Contact details: Ian Howson
Call: 01253 461144
Email: blackpoolbears@aol.com
Urban Dance Project (UDP)
Contact details: Michelle Ramsey (Mimi)
Call: 07584359310
Email: urbandanceproject@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.urbandanceproject.co.uk
Safe play centre
Contact details: Clare or Rob Jones
Call: 01772 793681
Email: enquires@safeplaycentre.co.uk
Website: www.safeplaycentre.co.uk
Blackpool Circus School
Venue: Highfield Humanities College, FY4 3JZ
Contact details: Yuri Gridneff
Call: 01253 735725
Email: yuri@blackpoolcircusschool.co.uk
Website: www.blackpoolcircusschool.co.uk
Fylde Sharks Disability Swimming Club
Venue: St Anne’s YMCA swimming pool and YMCA Kirkham baths
Contact details: Pam Young
Call: 07922522895
Email: Helen@fyldesharks.co.uk
Cheetahs
Venue: YMCA Thornton, Victoria Road East, FY5 3SX
Contact details: Becky
Call: 01253 205134/07891367389
Email: info@thecheetahs.co.uk
Tiggers
Venue: Unit 23, Sycamore Trading Estate, Squires Gate Lane, FY4 3RL
Book by: Please note you MUST be a member to go to Tiggers
Call: 01253 365734
Email: office@blackpooltiggers.co.uk
SeeSaws
Venue: Springfield Methodist Church, Bispham Road, Blackpool, FY2 0FY
Contact details: Julie Clarke
Call: 07747533846
Email: seesaws@live.com
The A Team Youth Club
Venue: Whiteholme Youth and Community Centre, All Saints Road, Bispham, FY5 3AL
Contact details: Jacqui Ghigi
Call: 01253 476642
Email: Jacqui.ghigi@blackpool.gov.uk
The GFS Platform
Venue: St Marks Church Hall, Westcliffe Drive, Layton, FY3
Contact details: Mrs Barbara Brook
Call: 01253 885044
Email: babsbrook@hotmail.co.uk
Beatz Meetz
Venue: St Bernadettes RC School, Blackpool, FY2 0AS
Contact details: Mark Barnes
Call: 07411051457
Email: mike.barnes@live.co.uk
ALS holiday club
Venue: Marton and Mereside’s Community Centre, Bowness Avenue, Blackpool, FY4 4TE
Contact details: Lynda Dwornik/Suzanne Dwornik
Call: 07540091300/07873650140
Email: lynda.dwornik@yahoo.co.uk
Play Inclusion Project (PIP)
Venue: Highfurlong Special School, FY3 7LR
Contact details: Francoisie Peill
Call: 01253 899883/07809067773
Email: pip.bfw@ic24.net
Mosaic car group
Venue: Stanley Park
Contact details: Alicia Roberts
Call: 01772 325350
Email: Alicia@mosaiccommunitycare.co.uk
Website: www.mosaiccommunitycare.co.uk
The Together Centre
Contact Details: The Together Centre
Call: 01253 476322
Website: www.blackpool.gov.uk
Blackpool Carers’ Centre
Contact Details: Blackpool Carers’ Centre, Norman House, Robson Way, Blackpool, FY3 7PP
Call: 01253 393748
Email: admin@blackpoolcarers.org
Blackpool Polar Bears swimming club
Blackpool Polar Bears swimming club
Venue: Moor Park Pool, Blackpool
Contact details: Linda Ingles
Call: 01253 751076
Email: blackpool_polarbears@yahoo.co.
Website: www.blackpoolpolarbears.com
Other Useful Links
Sandcastle Water Park - accessibility guide
Website: https://www.sandcastle-waterpark.co.uk/accessible-venue/#Austism
Family Lives is a national charity providing help and support in all aspects of family life.
Website: http://familylives.org.uk/
Parent Partnership in Blackpool for help and advice for children with a statement of special needs.
Website: http://blackpool.fsd.org.uk/kb5/blackpool/fsd/home.page
Riding for the Disabled (local branch)
Website: http://www.seaside_rda.org.uk/
Riding for the Disabled (national)
Website: http://www.rda.org.uk/
The National Autistic Society
Website: http://www.autism.org.uk/
The leading UK charity for people with autism (including Asperger syndrome) and their families. It provides information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a better world for people with autism.
Website: http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/related-conditions/dyspraxia.aspx
The National Society for Epilepsy
Website: www.epilepsynse.org.uk
The National Society for Epilepsy is a medical charity. It carries out research into epilepsy, raises awareness of epilepsy and provides a range of services for people with epilepsy.
Organisation for Anti-Convulsant Syndromes (OACS) Fetal anti-convulsant syndrome (FACS)
Website: www.oacs-uk.co.uk
Diabetes UK
Self help charity for diabetics
Website: www.diabetes.co.uk/
The Down's Syndrome Association
Website: www.downs-syndrome.org.uk
The British Dyslexia Association
Website: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
RNIB
Supporting blind and partially sighted people
Website: www.rnib.org.uk
Action On Hearing Loss: RNID
Action On Hearing Loss is the name for RNID, the largest charity representing people who are deaf or have hearing loss in the UK.
Website: www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/
I CAN – The children’s communication charity
The charity that supports children with speech, language and communicatioin difficulties.
Website: www.ican.org.uk/
BSL - An online guide to British Sign Language
Website: www.britishsignlanguage.com/
The Makaton Charity
Makaton used signs and symbols to help people to communicate. It is designed to support spoken language and the signs and symbols are used with speech, in spoken word order.
Website: www.makaton.org/
Learning Disabilities
Mencap
Mencap campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with a learning disability and can offer information via its helplines.
Website: www.mencap.org.uk
British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
BILD works to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities across the UK.
Website: www.bild.org.uk
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
Supports people with learning disabilities and their families and works to improve services.
Website: www.learningdisabilities.org.uk