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PARENTS STUFF - online help and information
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DfEE Parents Centre
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This DfEE site tells parents about their child's
education and how they can help. It contains
information about in school learning, testing
and administration and out of school admissions,
health, welfare and learning at home.
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Parents Online
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This site aims to help parents with children at
primary school. It includes sections on
education, leisure, health and links to other
useful sites.
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Parents Online (Gov)
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This government site highlights just a few of
the many interesting, educational sites
available for all ages on the Net. It contains
news items and features on safety and parenting.
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Internet Watch Foundation
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This site addresses the problem of illegal
material on the Internet, with particular
reference to child pornography. It features a
Safe Surfing Guide and information about content
labelling and filtering.
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Topmarks
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This site is aimed at parents, teachers and
pupils. It publishes articles for parents to
help their children and provides easy access to
the best educational web sites.
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Parents Information Network
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This site contains a wealth of information and advice
to help parents whose children are using computers and
the Internet. It includes recommendations about
software (including Internet filtering software) and
advice about child-safe chat rooms.
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Disabled Parents Network
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This site is run by disabled parents, their
allies and family members, disabled people who
would like to be parents in the future and
others who are already grandparents. It aims to
offer support and put disabled parents and
would-be parents in touch with each other.
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Parents News Online
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This site is part of the Parents News Group that
supplies information to families, both in print and on
the web. It features a what’s on guide, monthly themes
and a directory of sites of interest to parents.
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Parents Place
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This site covers the whole spectrum from pregnancy to
school age children. It offers advice on a range of
topics and operates a number of chat rooms.
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UK Parents
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This site promotes itself as a ‘parenting lifeline’.
It contains a wide range of parenting information from
pre-conception onwards and includes parent to parent
forums and chat rooms.
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Best Bear
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This site brings together a variety of childcare
resources. It offers parents advice on employing
nannies, baby sitters, au pairs and maternity nurses.
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Bullying Online
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This site offers advice about dealing with bullying
for parents and children. Legal advice and information
about school projects to counteract bullying are also
available.
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NHS
Direct - guide to Solvent misuse: The products involved
Solvent misuse is also sometimes called glues sniffing,
inhalant misuse or volatile substance abuse (‘VSA’).
Users sometimes refer to it as ‘huffing’. In the average
home there are over 30 products that could be abused by
sniffing. Most of these are in everyday use and are not
locked away. Most parents would not link them with
abuse.
here is the NHS page for more info and advice on this
subject
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/SelfHelp/info/advice/solventmisuse.asp.
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