Welcome to the Supporting Families Sub-Hub!

Here you will find a range of resources, tools, videos and more focused on supporting your family during the pandemic.

Looking after yourself

Resources for improving yours and your family's emotional well-being from the NHS

  • NHS Mental Wellbeing Audio Guides

  • NHS Mood Self-Assessment

  • NHS Children and Bereavement

Coping with feeling Safe during the Pandemic

  • Feeling safe during COVID-19

  • Hopeline UK - Papyrus UK

  • Practical ways to help yourself cope

Information from the NHS for parents with newborns

  • Maternity and COVID-19 leaflets (English and other languages available)

  • Maternity leaflets: Looking after yourself and your baby in pregnancy (translated into Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, French, Gujarati, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Urdu)

  • Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies (translated into Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, French, Gujarati, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Urdu) 

Information for parents with under 5's

  • My child is unwell but not with COVID-19

  • Coronavirus - Parent information for new babies

  • Coronavirus: Planning your birth

Maternity care

  • Will the coronavirus pandemic affect how I give birth?

  • Coronavirus (COVID19): Advice for parents, including breastfeeding advice

  • Get Support Post Covid

  • Coping during coronavirus: through babies’ eyes

  • Coronavirus Q&A's from the RCM & RCOG

  • Tips for staying connected during the pandemic when you have a newborn

Looking after your family's wellbeing

  • Parenting during the coronavirus outbreak

  • Everybody worries - a picturebook for children who are worried about coronavirus

  • Talking to your children about the coronavirus pandemic

Getting support if you have newly arrived to England

  • Doctors of the world

  • Multi-lingual information on Covid-19

  • Practical ways to help yourself cope

Support bubbles, face coverings and travel

  • Guidance on forming support bubbles

  • Face coverings: when to wear one and how to make your own

  • Safer travel guidance for passengers information sheet

Resources for parents in British Sign Language (BSL)

  • Every Mind Matters - Tips for Staying At Home (BSL)

  • Face Covering Guidance (BSL)

  • Getting access to NHS Volunteer Responders (BSL)

Spotting the signs of Coronavirus - multiple languages

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (English)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (English BSL)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Romanian)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Slovak)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Czech)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Polish)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Sorani)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Farsi)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Arabic)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Urdu)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Punjabi)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Bengali)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Tigrinya)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Swahili)

  • Covid19 - spot the signs (Somali)

Supporting your child with epilepsy - resources for young people from Young Epilepsy

Young Epilepsy are one of our See Hear Respond national partners – find out more about our national partners here.

A Comic Exploring Coronavirus - In English, Spanish and Chinese

  • A comic exploring coronavirus

  • A comic exploring coronavirus - In Spanish 

  • A comic exploring coronavirus - In Chinese

Support for parents with LGBTQ+ children

  • Free resources to download from FFLAG

  • FFLAG - My child has told me they are gay

  • FFLAG - My child has told me they are transgender

If you think your or a child could be in immediate danger, always call 999.

This page will be regularly updated

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