CAMHS stands for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. CAMHS is the name for the NHS services that assess and treat young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties.

For more information, visit the website below:

CAMHS also offers some great resources for parents:

Parenting Smart (Place2Be)

The children's mental health charity, Place2Be, has 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: Place2Be.

If you have suffered a bereavement and feel that school can support, please do contact us.

Here are some websites which also may help:

The following offer a counselling service - sessions can be delivered at school

Bereavement Counselling and Support | The Dove Service

Books to support Bereavement:

  • Dogger – gentle intro to discussion for very young children
  • Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley (particularly useful if an older person has died).
  • Michael Rosen’s Sad Book
  • Tattybogle by Sandra Ann Horn
  • Muddles, Puddles & Sunshine by Winstons Wish – is an activity book.
  • Vicky Angel by Jaqueline Wilson (a friend’s death,  for older children)