Support Services & Advice
Please find here a list of websites and agencies in the local area who may also be able to offer support and advice to our families.
- Anti-bullying Alliance (ABA): www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk
- Family lives: www.familylives.org.uk/advice/bullying
- Kidscape: www.kidscape.org.uk
- Bedfordshire Open Door (counselling for young people):
- Bedfordshire Well-being Service:
- CHUMS Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service:
- www.chums.uk.com
- Tel: 01525 863924
- Hear2Listen:
- REFLECT (Text messaging service):
- Text reflect to 85258
- Relate Bedfordshire and Luton:
- Sorted Counselling Services:
- E-mail: admin.sorted@talktalk.net
- Tel: 01582 891435 appointments (Mon-Thur)
- Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services:
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP): www.ceop.police.uk
- Childnet International: www.childnet-int.org
- Internet Matters: www.internetmatters.org
- Internet Watch Foundation: www.iwf.org.uk
- Kidsmart: www.kidsmart.org.uk
- Safe4Me: www.safe4me.co.uk/resources
- Think U Know: www.thinkuknow.co.uk
- UK Safer Internet Centre: saferinternet.org.uk
- Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership: https://bedsdv.org.uk/
- ADFAM:
- Aquarius:
- National Drugs Helpline (FRANK):
- www.talktofrank.com
- Tel: 0800 776 600 (24 hrs free advice)
- NHS choices
- Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH): www.eachaction.org.uk
- Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG): www.fflag.org.uk
- Stonewall: www.stonewall.org.uk
- CHUMS:
- Mind BLMK
- Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide
- Rethink Mental Illness
- www.rethink.org
- Tel: 0845 456 0455
- Samaritans
- Young Minds
- www.youngminds.org.uk
- Young Person’s Helpline: 020 7336 8445
- Parent Helpline: 0808 802 5544
- Young Person's Sanctuaries in Bedford, Luton and Central Beds
- Be Body Positive: www.bebodypositive.org.uk
- Better Days BLMK: betterdaysblmk@hotmail.com
- CAMHS:
- Childline:
- www.childline.org.uk
- Tel: 0800 1111
- NHS
- NSPCC