Parenting courses and advice

Local parenting support

Find details about current Parenting Programmes on the Open for parents website. They are for parents and carers of children and young people up to 19 years old.

• Website: Open for parents
• Email: EH.0-19parentingteam@eastsussex.gov.uk
• Facebook: Open for parents

Support in Hastings and Rye with emotional well-being issues

Education Futures Trust (EFT) offer Forest School and parenting courses.

• Website: Education Futures Trust (EFT)
• Telephone: Tel: 01424 722 241

Or search ESCIS for ‘parent support’. ESCIS is the East Sussex Community Information Service (ESCIS).

• Website: ESCIS

For more information, call the parenting team

• Telephone: 01424 725 800
• Email: EH.0-19parentingteam@eastsussex.gov.uk

Online advice and helpline

The charity Family Lives has a free helpline open seven days a week. See the website for advice, live chat, befriending, parenting and support groups.

• Website: Family Lives
• Telephone: 0808 800 2222

Care for the Family has information on parenting and family life.

• Website: Care for the Family

Parenting troubled teenagers

• Website: Relate