Guidance For Parents

Solihull Online

Tameside Council have invested in 3 award winning, quality marked, online courses by the Solihull Approach (a national NHS organisation for parenting approaches).

These courses are for ALL parents-to-be, parents, grandparents or carers of any child from the antenatal period to age 18 years.  This course is relevant to parents of all children, including those with special needs, autism, ADHD etc.

We would encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. These courses are normally £19-£39 per person, but are FREE with the access codes below to all residents of Tameside.

Please take advantage of this fantastic resource while you can. Once you have accessed the courses using this code you will have non-expiring access even after the code expires.

Go to www.inourplace.co.uk  and apply the relevant access code:

  • Understanding your child – Access code: SUNFLOWER
  • Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby – Access code: SUNFLOWER
  • Understanding your baby– Access code: SUNFLOWER

You will be asked to create an account so that you can resume the course where you last left off. You will also be asked to verify that you are legitimately entitled to use the access code by entering your postcode. Personal information supplied by you remains private. Your responses to the monitoring questions are anonymised. You will not receive any marketing emails. You will receive congratulatory emails when you complete a module. The Solihull Approach may very occasionally email you to tell you about updates to the course.

For technical queries email solihull.approach@heartofengland.nhs.uk or ring 0121 296 4448, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.

Useful Safeguarding Resources For Parents

As parents, you want to make sure that your children develop healthily and thrive. We’re here to help you with advice on how you can build strong relationships with your children and keep them safe. 

This is a collection of resources offering useful safeguarding guidance and information. 

 

Guidance on Stranger Danger

Whilst the risk posed by strangers is rare, it’s really important to make children aware of simple tips they can follow to keep themselves a little safer. This video on Stranger Danger is designed to highlight a few key points, which could be used to help an important conversation with your child. It is aimed at children aged 4 – 11 years.

We would advise you to talk about who your safe adults are and where there are safe places near you if help is needed. It’s also important to think about safety on the internet and use of mobile phone apps and games that have a ‘chat’ function as this can be just as dangerous as a stranger in the street. 

Further information and support is available from:

For advice about keeping children safe online, or if you want to report someone who is behaving suspiciously towards a child online, contact the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre at www.ceop.gov.uk or phone 0870 000 3344.