Out of Hours Support
- Childline
www.childline.org.uk
Call 0800 111
9am – midnight, 365 days a year.
Confidentially call, chat online or email about any problem big or small.
Sign up for or a free Childline locker (real name or email address not needed) to use their free 1-1 counsellor chat and email support service.
BSL interpreter if you are deaf or hearing-impaired.
Hosts online message boards where you can share your experiences, have fun and get support from other young people in similar situations.
- Switchboard LGBT + helpline
www.switchboard.lgbt
Call 0300 330 0630
Open 10:00am -10:00pm
Call the number above or email chris@switchboard.lgbt
The Switchboard Promise
To talk through things
We don’t finish a call until you tell us
Everything is confidential
All our volunteers self define as LGBT+.
- YOUNGMiNDS
24/7 text support for young people
Text YM to 85258
If you are a young person struggling to cope or experiencing a mental health crisis.
All texts are answered by trained volunteers.
Texts are free from most networks.
Whatever you are going through, if it matters to you, it matters to us.
- NSPCC Helpline
help@nspcc.org.uk
Call 0800 136 663
NSPCC dedicated helpline for anyone that has experienced or is worried about sexual harassment or abuse in school.
- PAPYRUS
Are you, or is a young person you know, not coping with life? For confidential suicide prevention advice contact HOPELINE247
Tel: 088 068 4141
Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org
Text: 88247
- Hampshire Mental Health Service
Tel: 02382 317 912
Parents & Carers – CAMHS (hampshirecamhs.nhs.uk)
You can contact the team to discuss new and existing referrals, as well as advice around the referral process and the services CAMHS provides.
- Children's Services Hampshire
Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5pm
Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm
Tel: 0300 555 1384
Email: childrens.services@hants.gov.uk
Out of hours support:
Tel: 0300 555 1373
Please note – in an emergency call 999
- general education enquiries
- finding childcare
- sources of help and support
- adoption and fostering
- children with special need
