If your child has a long-term health condition or a disability you may be entitled to certain benefits to help you provide the extra things your child may need or help with your income to balance out working part-time or giving up work all together. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) may help if: your child […]
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Eat Them to Defeat Them is the award-winning campaign to get kids eating more vegetables. 80% of kids don’t eat enough vegetables. If you are worried about your child’s mood, behaviour and learning, a good place to start is their diet. Eat Them to Defeat Them was created by Veg Power and ITV as a
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Paying for childcare can be one of the most expensive items in your monthly budget. It can also stop many parents going back into the workplace. The Childcare Choices Website can help you find out what you are entitled to and how you can save money on your childcare costs. Try using the Childcare Costs
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This term we are lucky to have the Lewisham Educational Psychology team visiting some of our Explorers or Little Explorers sessions. The Lewisham Educational Psychology team support parents and children across the borough with a number of issues such as: How to help your child with their schoolwork Manging Routines at home School issues including;
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023 will take place from 6-12 February 2023. This year’s theme is Let’s Connect. What’s it all about? Let’s Connect is about making meaningful connections, and for Children’s Mental Health Week 2023, Place2Be is encouraging people to connect with others in healthy, rewarding and meaningful ways. As parents and carers, you
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Safer Internet Day 2023 will take place on the 7th of February 2023, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’. About Safer internet day 2023 It can be really difficult to know where to start with keeping your child safe online, especially
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Every February is LGBT+ history month. Lewisham Children & Family Centres are a safe, open and welcoming place for all families regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. All our sessions are open to all types of families. The LGBT+ history month website says: The LGBT+ History Month 2023 #BehindTheLens celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and
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Written by Nicky Sanford for the Early Years Alliance. Nicky worked as an early years teacher for 15 years and currently works in a village pre-school. Have you noticed that if your little one throws two toys from their highchair and you only retrieve one they will ‘look’ for the other? This is early
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Great Mental Health Day 2023 is celebrating the power of community kindness and telling the story of how we’ve come together for one another across London. In a year that’s remained challenging for many of us, it has been our communities, friends and families which have played the most important role in in getting us
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It’s been great to see so many male parents and carers visiting our centres and website so we wanted to welcome you all. Our Groups and Sessions Dads are welcome at all of our sessions and groups. Whether that’s Stay & Play, Baby Massage or our parenting courses. Have a look at the Timetable
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