Department for Children, Schools and Families

Services for parents

The following free* services listed below are designed to serve everyone in a parenting role – mothers fathers, carers, and other adults with parental responsibility – by ensuring access to expert advice through existing telephone helplines, or a new generation of services delivered online and to mobile phones.

If you work directly with parents or practitioners, please consider signposting them from your website to these services. Click on any of the links below for more information or to contact a particular service.

Services for all parents

Services for lone parents

Parents concerned about their relationship

Expert help for mums

Services for dads

Parents involved with social care services

Services for parents with disabled children

Services for parents of teenagers

Education advice

Legal advice


* All services are free to use, except the Children’s Legal Centre helpline – the calls can cost up to 4 pence per minute peak rate; networks and mobile charges may vary.



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