Parentalk Useful Contacts

Parentalk is a charity dedicated to inspiring and equipping parents. Our resources and services are all designed to help mums and dads make the most of every stage of their child's growing up.

Useful Contacts: A - Z List

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2-in-2-1	4 or More
4Children's	ABC Parenting
Abs Kids - Anti-bullying website	Acceptance
Acne & Rosacea Support Group	Action on Pre-Eclampsia (APEC)
Adfam	Adoption & Fostering Information Line
Advisory Centre For Education (ACE)	Alton Towers
Antenatal Results & Choices (ARC)	Anti-Bullying Campaign
Anxiety Care	Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
Association for Postnatal Illness	BBC Website - Parenting
BBC Website - Schools	Best Bear
Black and Minority Ethnic Parents	BLISS - The National Charity for the Newborn
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy	British Association for Early Childhood Education
British Dyslexia Association	Bullying Online
Caesarean Support Network	Care for the Family
Careline	CareZone
Chartered Institute of Personnel Development	Chat Danger
Child Benefit Centre	Child Psychotherapy Trust
Child Support Agency	Child, The National Infertility Support Network
Childalert	Childcare Index
Childcare Link	Childcare Plus
Childline	Children 1st
Children’s Society (Church of England Children's Society)	Children's Legal Centre Advice Line
Child's Eye Media	Christian Family Network
Christians Against Poverty	Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB)
Citizens Advice Directory	Contact a Family
Council for Disabled Children	Couple Counselling Scotland
Credit Action	Dads & Sons
Daycare Trust	Department for Education & Skills: Parents Centre
Department of Work & Pensions	Dept of Trade and Industry: Working Parents
Disabled Parents' Network	Disney Channel
Divert Trust	Eating Disorders Association
Enuresis Helpline	EPOCH
face2face	Families First
Families Need Fathers	Families Online
Family Links	Family Match
Family Matters Institute	Family Service Units
Family Travel	Family Welfare Association
familyonwards.com	Fathers Direct
FFLAG	Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
FPA (Family Planning Association)	General Brazelton Centre in Great Britain
Get the Right School	Gingerbread
Good Web Guide	Group B Strep Support
Happier Families	Health Development Agency
Health Development Agency for Scotland	Health Information Service
Home Education Advisory Service	Home-Start UK
Independent Schools Directory UK	Institute of Family Therapy
Issue (National Fertility Association)	Keep Time for Children
Kids on the Web	Kidscape
La Leche League - UK	Lego
LIFE	Literacy Trust
London Aquarium	Maternity Alliance
Meet-a-Mum (MAMA)	Men's Advice Line and Enquiries (MALE)
Mind (National Association for Mental Health)	Miscarriage Association
Mother@Work	Mothers Union
Multiple Births Foundation	mumsnet
Nanny Job	National AIDS Helpline
National Association for Children of Alcoholics	National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare
National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC)	National Asthma Campaign
National Childbirth Trust (NCT)	National Childminding Association
National Children's Bureau	National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations
National Council for One Parent Families (NCOPF)	National Council for Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO)
National Day Nurseries Association	National Drugs Helpline
National Family and Parenting Institute	National Fatherhood Initiative
netmums.com	Network 81
New Au Pair	New Dads
NEWPIN (New Parent and Infant Network)	NHS 24
NHS Direct England	NHS Direct Wales
NHS Helpline (Scotland)	NIPPA The Early Years Organisation
NO PANIC	Northern Ireland Childminding Association NICMA
Northern Ireland Mother and Baby Appeal	NSPCC
Nursery World	One Parent Families
One Parent Families Scotland	OneplusOne
Oxford Reading Tree on the Internet	Parent Coaching Academy
Parent Know How	Parent Network
Parenting Education & Support Forum	Parenting Education and Support Forum
Parenting Q & A	Parentline Plus
Parents Advice Centre	Parents Against Drug Abuse (PADA)
Parents Anonymous	Parents in Partnership - Parent Infant Network (PIPPIN)
Parents News	Parents Online
Playleader	Positive Parenting
Practical Parenting	Pre-School Learning Alliance
Raising Kids	Refuge
Relate (National Marriage Guidance)	Samaritans
School Zone	Schoolfriend etc
Schoolsnet	Scottish Childminding Association
Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK	Shelterline
Sitters	S-k-i-n-t Student Discounts
Society for the Prevention of Solvent and Volatile Substance Abuse (RE-SOLV)	SPAN - Single Parent Action Network
Stay at Home Dads	Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)
Student Loan Company	Talk Don't Walk
Talk to Frank	Talking Point
Tax Credits	The Cry-sis Helpline
The Parent Centre	The Parent Governor Representative Network
The Working Families	Thorpe Park
Toddler Art	Tommy's, The Baby Charity
Trust for the Study of Adolescence	Tulip
Twins and Multiple Births Association (TAMBA)	UK Parents Online
Wellbeing Eating for Pregnancy Helpline	Wildlife Trusts
Women's Aid	Working Families
Yahooligans!	Young Minds (The National Association for Child & Family Mental Health)
Youth Access

Top Tips & Quotes

Make time for your children NOW!

Take your child out to breakfast this weekend.

Plan a surprise outing for your family. (If you have a partner, tell them first!)

Plan to have at least one mealtime together each week with the TV off and the phone unplugged.

'There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.'

George Santayana

'The first five years of a child's life is a period of rapid change. In this time a parent can age twenty years!'

Anonymous

'Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.'

Joan Baez

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