The council offers a range of help for parents, including one-to-one advice sessions, workshops and seminars, which you can book directly by contacting your local family hub.
Further details on available discussion groups can be found below.
For more information, email ParentingService@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Please include your full postal address including postcode and contact numbers on any enquiry.
Triple P, Family Lives and the Family and Parenting Institute are external organisations offering support to parents.
Parenting advice
There is a parenting surgery facility offering parents opportunities to raise ongoing issues and discuss options regarding additional parenting support.
For more information, email ParentingService@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Triple P Discussion Groups
A two and half hour session with crèche, giving opportunities to focus on specific areas of child behaviour.
For children from 5 years to 11 years, topics include:
- Dealing with disobedience
- Managing fighting and aggression
- Developing good bedtime routines
For older children from 12 to 15 years the focus can be:
- Getting teenagers to cooperate
- Coping with teenagers emotions
- Building teenagers’ survival skills
- Reducing family conflict
Triple P primary – online
An interactive web-based course, undertaken on home (or library) computer with remote monitoring and one telephone review with a parenting practitioner. The course aims to promote positive parenting practices including: the use of positive attention and praise; strategies to avoid problems in high-risk situations and effective discipline for misbehaviour.
Parents receive log on details and complete relevant self-assessment questionnaires. Suitable for families of children attending primary school.