Useful Links
Disability
Contact a Family is the only UK wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children, no matter what their disability or health condition. They also help parents to get in contact with other families.
Education
The Advisory Centre for Education offers free, independent advice to families on all aspect of state funded education for children of school age.
Games, songs, stories and lots of activities for children who are learning English.
Money
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/financial_capability/pgtm/parents/choose-a-calculator.html
Very useful website providing calculators for 7 different financial aspects of parenting ranging from budgeting for a baby, the cost of a child, tax credits to childcare.
http://www.taxcc.org/index.html
This website aims to bring all the issues and information you might need together in one place, in as logical and simple a way as possible.
http://www.creditaction.org.uk/moneymanual-single-parents.html
This self-help guide is designed to provide real hope, and practical advice, to the many single parents who are currently struggling with their finances.
Legal and Rights
Promoting children's rights in the Uk and worldwide.
Articles and information on child abuse and child laws.
Family Rights Group provides specialist advice to families who are raising children involved with or who need social care services.
Government website for information on preventing and tackling anti-social behaviour from teenagers to the neighbours.
http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/
Informs, educates and empowers women on legal rights.
Health
Website offering free general health information for young people and families and advice from child health experts on a broad range of health related topics.
Support and information to friends and family who are worried about someone using drugs.
Teens' advice and information on AIDS and HIV, condoms, birth control, having sex, puberty, the law and being gay.
Excellent website on healthy diet, ages and stages, health issues etc
School and Public Health Nurses. A great resource for health and parenting professionals.
Trust for the Study of Adolescence - info on parenting teenagers, peer power, young fathers.
Information and support on childhood bedwetting, daytime wetting, constipation and soiling.
Fathers
The site for stay-at-home dads
Birth, babies, money, work and legal issues for fathers.
DadTalk is a voice for dads, influencing and challenging society and aspiring to pass on a better future to our kids
Being a Dad is one of the most enriching experiences in a man's life, enjoyable but at times a grind and frequently challenging. Dads-Space aims to tackle all of this - from the playful to the painful, offering no-nonsense advice and information based on Dads' own experiences and up-to-date research
Parenting
Website with comprehensive information for parents.
Excellent website with all sorts of information on and for mixed race families.
Lots of local information and message boards connecting parents with each other.
Information on a broad range of issues, also run a one parent helpline.
Information on parenting with helpline number for parents.
www.separatedfamilies.org.ukSupport, information and advice to anyone affected by family separation, including parents and the extended family to help build a more co-operative separated parenting relationship. Personal email and telephone advice nationwide.
Information for young women including young mums, money/debt advice, skills.
Working With Men develop and implement support projects that benefit the development of men and boys, we also seek to raise awareness of issues impacting upon men and boys in addition to trying to gain a greater understanding of the underlying issues behind male behaviour.
Relate, the leading provider of relationship support can now directly help parental relationships via this web-site.
Work
Suppporting and empowering single parents to achieve their business, professional and personal goals.
Information for working families and support on employment rights, childcare and flexible working.
Other
Articles and blogs by single dad Dan Roberts
The online magazine for single parents and step parents.
Public services all in one place.
