Website: www.childline.org.uk
Tel: 0800 111
Opening: 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.

Website: www.switchboard.lgbt
Tel: 0300 330 0630
Opening: 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+.

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.

Email: help@nspcc.org.uk
Tel: 0800 136 663

NSPCC dedicated helpline for anyone that has experienced or is worried about sexual harassment or abuse in school.

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

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.

• 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