Download a personalised vaccination calendar, which highlights the dates your child needs to have their vaccinations by.

Download here: Immunisation Guide

If you’re receiving a qualifying benefit and are pregnant or have parental responsibility for at least one child under the age of 4, you can apply online now for the NHS Healthy Start card

You can use your card to buy:

• plain liquid cow’s milk
• fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
• fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
• infant formula milk based on cow’s milk

Website: Get help to buy food and milk (Healthy Start)

Before attending A&E, please check the below Symptom Checker. You can find information and advice on several of the most common illnesses in children before you make a decision to use A&E.

Website: Symptom Checker

Family Lives offers a confidential and free* helpline service for families in England and Wales (previously known as Parentline). Please call us on 0808 800 2222 for emotional support, information, advice and guidance on any aspect of parenting and family life.

We cannot offer legal or medical advice.

* Free from landlines and most mobiles

Call: 0808 800 2222

Website: Family Lives

The Gingerbread Advice Service provides support and expert advice on any aspect of single parenting, from dealing with a break-up or bereavement to going back to work or sorting out child maintenance, benefit or Universal Credit issues. Our expert advisers provide tailored advice and can talk you through your options.

Our advice service is free and confidential, and we’re proud to be AQS-accredited.

Call: 0808 802 0925

Webiste: Gingerbread

My Time is part of the CAMHS service provision for children and young people needing emotional health and wellbeing support. MyTime work with mild to moderate emotional health presentations such as anger, anxiety, low mood, self-harm and depression. MyTime practitioners work by putting the young person at the heart of the intervention and focus on what they do well as well as what they have in their power to change, calling on the various systems such as family and schools, to support the desired changes.

Website: MyTime Cumbria | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)

Call: 01539 742626

Self-referral form: Click here

Action for Children protects and supports children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives.

Call: 01539 734 456

Email: South.lakeland@actionforchildren.org.uk

Website: Action For Children - South Lakeland

Getting support for a child on the autism spectrum and their family is often far from straightforward.  This is because not all people on the autism spectrum fit the traditional idea of disability.  As many parents already know, this causes frustration.  The South Lakes Autism Family Support Project aims to support families to get the best out of existing services and identify gaps in provision to inform future service developments.

Or regular drop in session on a Thursday at 10am is an opportunity to meet other families, gather relevant information and have the chance to spend time amongst people with similar experiences.  Perhaps you need help with a form or some unanswered questions?  We will try to help!

Website: Autism - Kendal Family Drop-In Centre (weebly.com)

Call: 07795346632

Email: shirley-gilpin@sky.com