Families and parenting

Action for Children (Wales) - offer services to children and young people and their families.

Barnardo's Cymru - runs a number of projects aimed at supporting children, young people and their families.

CFAB (Children & Families Across Borders) - a charity which seeks to protect, defend and support any child, family or individual who faces a social, legal or personal problem as a consequence of global movement.

Childrens 1st - (Formerly ParentLine Scotland)is a free, confidential helpline for parents and anyone caring for a child in Scotland.

Children in Wales - is the national umbrella body for organisations and individuals who work with children, young people and their families in Wales. 

Cry-sis (Wales) - Helps families who find it difficult to cope when their baby cries a lot.

Family Action (formerly Family Welfare Association) - tackling difficult issues facing families including domestic abuse, mental health problems, learning disabilities and severe financial hardship.

Families Need Fathers - information and support on shared parenting following separation or divorce.

Family Rights Group - provides advice and services to families whose children are involved with social services

Gingerbread - Gingerbread is the national charity working with single parent families. Formed following a merger of the National Council for One Parent Families and Gingerbread, we now provide increased support and a stronger campaigning voice for single parents and their families.

Happy steps - The UK's only research based stepfamily resource centre. Designed to gather together a whole range of services to help families and individuals strengthen their stepfamilies and to provide training and tools for organisations who regularly deal with them.

HENRY (Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young) – A charity offering programmes and online resources for parents of 0 to 5 year olds to help provide a healthy start in life for young children. Programmes cover how to juggle life with young children, how to respond to their needs without giving in to demands, tips to reduce mealtime stress, active play to help children learn, food groups, food labels, portion sizes for under 5s, first foods, snack swaps, and understanding and managing your child's behaviour.

Home-start - offers regular support to families with one child under 5 years old - look at the site to see whether there is a scheme near you.

Home-Start UK in Wales - supports families with young children.

InOurPlace - provides free and paid for courses on different aspects of parenting and family life

Mumsnet - online forum for parenting support and the discussion of issues connected with parenting.

National Family Mediation - mediators helping parents who live apart stay close to their children.

Netmums - a unique local network for Mums (or Dads), offering a wealth of information on both a national and local level. Once registered, you can access details for all kinds of local resources, from child-friendly cafes to childminders, places to go etc.

One plus One - an independent research organisation whose role is to generate knowledge about marriage and relationships - how they work, why they can sometimes run into difficulties and how couples can cope when they do.

Parenting across Scotland - is a partnership of charities which offers support to children and families in Scotland. We work together to focus on parenting issues.

Parenting NI - provides a telephone helpline and face-to-face support and guidance service for families on issues such as bullying, separation/divorce, self-harm and emotional difficulties.

Parentline (Ireland) - provides information and a listening ear to anyone in a parenting role in Ireland.

Stand Alone - support people who are estranged from their family or children. Our primary objective is to break down the stigma around estrangement and support estranged people in their daily lives.

Strengthening Families - Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) is a parenting programme, some of their courses are free but others are paid courses. 

Strengthening Families Protecting Children Programme -  Information about the SFPC programme to help safely reduce the number of children entering care.

There For You Advisory Service - supporting families involved with children's services

Young Minds - information for parents who may be concerned about the mental health of their child.