The following guides have been put together for both families and practitioners working to support families in Surrey:
Advice for parents
Whatever the age of your child, parenting can pose challenges as well as rewards. The resources below are free to download and offer help with common parenting issues.
Parents, carers and anyone else who looks after a child in Surrey can also benefit from a wide range of parenting workshops and courses, delivered both online and in-person across the county. For more information, please see our parenting course pages.
One-minute guides
- Additional need and disability
- Be Your Best programme
- Domestic abuse
- Domestic abuse advice: safety tips for child contact
- Domestic abuse advice: safety tips for victims of stalking
- How to handle difficult behaviour in young children
- How to handle difficult behaviour in older children
- Preparing for school
- Reducing parental conflict
- Supporting father's role in parenting
- Surrey Youth Focus and the third sector
- Your child's two-year integrated review (27 months)
- What is the Family Support Programme?
Support for fathers
Additional parenting resources
- Setting boundaries
- Supporting young people online
- Positive parenting guide
- Advice for children with sleep disturbances
Advice for practitioners
One-minute guides
- Becoming a Child Champion
- Daily youth housing advice for Quadrant Teams
- Domestic Abuse Advice for Early Help Advisors and Partner Agencies
- Early Help assessments
- Family group conference
- Home Start in Surrey
- Housing advice
- Independent Child Trafficking Guardians
- Locality Early Help Advisors
- National Referral Mechanism
- Online safety advice for professionals
- Outcome Star
- Return Home Interview prompts
- Surrey Care Trust
- Surrey Partnership Helping Families Early Strategy (2020 to 2023)
- Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership
- What is a Team Around the Family (TAF)?
- Top tips for a team around the family
- Youth Offending Service
Family Centres
Family Centres provide 1-to-1 family support for families where challenging family circumstances are having a significant impact on the health, development or wellbeing of the child or children living in the home.
Professionals and practitioners working with families, for example, GPs, health visitors, schools, early years settings and others can request 1-to-1 family support for the family through the Early Help Hub. Family Centres can also be accessed directly by families who need some extra support.
For more information, download our one-minute guides to the help and support Family Centres in Surrey can offer at different levels of need: