How old is your child?

To ensure you get the information that is right and relevant for you and your child please choose their age range from the following options. If you are 13 and over, choose 13+ to get information tailored to you.
  1. A cartoon pregnant woman cradling her bump looking peaceful
    I am pregnant
  2. A green number 1
    0 to 1 year old
  3. An orange number 2
    2 years old
  4. Pink number three and a blue number five
    Three to five years old
  5. Green number five and an orange number eight
    Five to eight years old
  6. Pink number eight and an orange number 10
    Eight to ten (10) years old
  7. Green number 10 and a pink number 12
    10 to 12 years old
  8. Cartoon numbers representing 13 years and older
    I have a teenager!
  9. Female on the phone in an office smiling
    Contact our children's services

Other resources

Useful links update

Other useful links:

It is really important that you have access to a wide range of resources that are engaging and informative for both you and your child. 

Here are some of our favourites:

BBC Tiny People     Health for under 5s

Health for Kids         Health for Teens 

Young people services blog

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Ensuring home educated pupils access support

The school nursing service in Northamptonshire has established a new dedicated pathway to ensure home educated children do not fall through the gaps and have access to the support they need....

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Parent’s Blog: Emotion Coaching and Children’s Behaviour

Sometimes my child kicks off spectacularly and it can leave me unsure what to do. Find out how emotion coaching helped this parent through......

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Young person's blog: 19 years old, female, queer, recovering...managing?

Trigger warning: Mental health One of our young people talks through their story of reaching out to get help, you will find additional mental health support if you need it in this blog....

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Parent’s Blog: Me, my partner and my personality disorder

Trigger warning: This article is a personal account of an experience with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from our co-production children, young people, carers and families group. ...

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Top tips for writing a blog

You are an expert in your own experiences and can use that to reach out to others who might be going through something similar. ...

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Welcome to the NHFT Children and Young People's Participation Blogs

Welcome to the NHFT Blogs! The participation team have been working with children, young people and parents/carers to hear what they want from the Children’s Services Website. You said you wa...

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A parent’s survival guide to colic

As a first time mum, I had never even heard of the term colic before I had my little girl in 2019. I didn’t really know what it was or the impact it could have... Continue reading this blog p...

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When Families Fight

When I was younger I used to lay in bed at night and listen to my parents arguing. It would always end the same with banging and clattering and shouting, and I would pull my covers over my head to try...