The Lead Professional for under 5s is the Health Visitor or Family Nurse. They will help parents directly.
If there is no Lead Professional, ask for parenting help from the Duty Health Visitor at 0300 123 6629.
Managing children’s behaviour
Support for Under 5s
Parenting Surgeries (5-19)
Parents without a Lead Professional or social worker can get help from a parenting expert by emailing: ParentingService@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
An email referral is preferred however parents can call 023 9282 1816, or text 07823 687838 to ask about or book a Parenting Surgery.
Parents should ask for a Parenting Surgery themselves. If they can’t, helpers like teachers or SENCo’s should make sure parents know about this request. This is not a referral for Early Help and Prevention Support, just a one-time session.
Please include the following:
- Parent’s name
- Phone number
- Focus child’s name
- Child’s date of birth
- Home address
- Short summary of help needed
Sessions will be set up to fit the parents’ schedule.
Lead Professionals working with a family should not refer to the surgeries. They should contact the local parenting expert for Team Around the Worker help.
Triple P Discussion Groups (5-16)
A focused program to help school-aged children (5-16) at Family Hubs in the city. Sessions are at different times, including evenings. These are for parents/carers, and there is no creche.
Parents or Lead Professionals can call the hubs to book or ask questions. Find your local family hub contact information.
This term’s topics are:
- Managing Fighting & Aggression
- Reducing Family Conflict
- Getting Your Children to Cooperate
- Coping with Teen Emotions
Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
‘Overcoming a child’s or young person’s violent, aggressive, harmful, self-destructive or risk-taking behaviour using Non-Violent Resistance’ (10-week course)
Rebuilding Relationships (RR)
‘Creating new possibilities using NVR approaches, that defiance, aggression and conflict has taken away’ (3-week course)
Referral for next school term
We are now accepting referrals for the next school term.
To attend NVR or RR, the Lead Professional working with the family must make a referral.