Service Directory
Aiming Higher - Family Support
231-233, Church Street, Blackpool, FY1 3PB
01253 206447
info@aiminghighercharity.org.uk
Aiming Higher- Free Counselling Sessions
231-233 Church Street, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY1 3PB
01253 206447
Autism Initiatives UK
161, Bristol Avenue, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 0FB
0151 330 9500
01253 503140
info@autisminitiatives.org
Awaken Project
01253 607063
Completion of a MARF or a conversation with a professional DOES NOT REPLACE the submission of an INTEL FORM.
Prior to sending intel forms they MUST be protected with a password (agreed password to be shared Tower1234). This will ensure the documents integrity and importantly, protect the source should it be accidentally be sent elsewhere, intercepted or cc’d etc. in error.
The form contains an area for intelligence and an area for the informants details. As such, this should not be printed off or filled out whilst in the community as that carries the risk of it being lost or stolen and exposing the informant to risk. This is really important so please ensure that message is passed to and understood by your teams.
Please also be aware that all intel forms should be sent to the Awaken inbox – awaken@lancashire.police.pnn.uk and not to individual staff members.
So with the above 1 and 3 usual safeguarding approach to be applied – 2 could be an intel entry. The point being in the case examples of 1 & 3 there would be expectation for the school to approach the child and speak about the concerns before knowing how to refer on.
Information/intelligence shared will be used to contribute to ongoing decision making during the consideration of CE1 referrals and ongoing CE2 assessments.
Suite 12, Technology Management Centre,, 5 Faraday Way, Blackpool, FY2 0JW
01253 595224
blackpool.project@barnardos.org.uk
Unit 1 Chalk Hall House, 19 Rosary Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1SZ
0300 123 3355
0808 801 0677 : Helpline
help@beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Number One, Bickerstaffe Square, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 1NA
betterstart.cecd@nspcc.org.uk
147, Newton Drive, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 8LZ
01253 393748
julie.swift@blackpoolcarers.org
259, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY3 9JL
01253 476880
The Empowerment Base
333 Bispham Road, Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY2 0HH
0300 323 0251
bcypa@blackpooladvocacyhub.org.uk
Referral Form below
New CYP Advocacy Referral Form.docxBlackpool Communication Aids and Assistive Technology Team (CAAT)
Highfurlong Special School, Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool, FY3 7LR
01253 392188
erica.smith@highfurlong.blackpool.sch.uk
Blackpool Centre For Independent Living, 259 Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY3 9JL
01253 476450
info@blackpoolfoodbank.co.uk
The TAB Family Hub:
Gorton Street| Blackpool | FY1 3JW
T: 01253 754840
AS SMU leaflet 2021.pdfAdditional info and contact details
Family Practitioners – Adolescent Service What do we do?
If you have completed a PSHE session and some brief intervention and still have worries about a young person you can refer into our service for:
Targeted 1:1 Substance Misuse Support (SMU)
Psychosocial, non-clinical support, for young people misusing substances
· The cycle of change,
· Harm reduction,
· Managing cravings,
· Distract and delay,
· Distraction techniques,
· Discuss aspirations and positive activities,
· Relapse prevention,
· General awareness (inc. CCE)
· Consequences, effects, health implications
· The team can facilitate access to clinical support including, prescribing, community and residential detox and rehabilitation. This includes targeted work
Targeted 1:1 Sexual Health Support (SH)
Psychosocial, non-clinical support, for young people at risk of poor sexual health outcomes and in need of support with contraception and or STI screening and healthy sexual relationships. The team can facilitate access to clinical support and complete targeted work around
· STI’s and contraception (including clinical support where appropriate)
· Consent and the law
· Healthy relationships; qualities of a consensual healthy relationship,
· CSE & grooming, ok/not ok behaviours, recognising abuse, delay, power and control, challenging behaviours,
· Online safety.
Referral pathways
Substance Misuse & Sexual Health Support Referrals (young person must give consent and be Gillick/Fraser competent) Please seek parental consent where possible. However, support can still be accessed without parental consent.
Partner under 18's Link to Blackpool Families Rock Request for Support Hub should be made using the online form www.blackpool.gov.uk/familiesrocksupport
Any questions or queries please contact:
Emma.Gordon@blackpool.gov.uk – 01253 754840
The Blackpool Youth Hub* is a new facility that will support young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are currently unemployed, to find a way back into work.
The service will help young people to develop their skills, improve their employment chances and will specifically target youth unemployment in the town.
Located in the town centre, young people can call in to make an appointment to see a Youth Hub Employment Adviser and receive one-to-one support on their journey to sustained long-term employment. Some young people will also be able to meet with their DWP Youth Work Coach in the centre as there are two co-located staff in the new hub.
The service will bring together support from a range of local partners, including:
JobcentrePlus
The Princes Trust
Groundwork
Blackpool FC Community Trust
Blackpool and the Fylde College
Blackpool Council's in-house services
These partners will provide training and employment support, with the long-term goal of reducing the number of young people that are not in education, employment or training in the town.
Working with employers, FE and training providers, the Youth Hub will become the ‘go to’ place to recruit young people onto courses and into jobs. The Youth Hub is building relations across the town with employers and providers linking them with potential new recruits but also listening to and acting on their recruitment and skills requirements.
Who is it for?
The Youth Hub service is open to young people without a job, who have been actively seeking work in the past four weeks and are available to start work or training in the next two weeks and offers up to 6 months support. This includes young people who have just completed a Kickstart work placement and need help to get their next job.
How to get in touch
If you know a young person who would benefit from support to find work or training they can:
Call in and book a first appointment:
Unit 3 Bickerstaffe House (next to the new Post Office), Cookson Street, FY1 3EF - Open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5.00pm
Call 01253 477775 and speak to a member of the team
Email youthhub@blackpool.gov.uk
CEOP
Whitegate Health Centre, 150, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, FY3 9ES
01253 957160
CAMHS only offer Primary Mental Health Worker drops for general advice/signposting – a Monday afternoon at Westminster Primary School
Childline
333, Bispham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 0HH
0300 3232100
admin@empowermentcharity.org.uk
Children's Nursing and Therapy Team: Specialist Health Visitors
147, Newton Drive, Blackpool, FY3 8LZ
01253 956143
admin@bfwhospitals.nhs.uk
3 Lockwood Avenue, Poulton le Fylde
01253 896444
info@ccats.org.uk
Communicate Speech and Language Therapy
Unit 29, Lytham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 1EW
01253 462123
enquire@communicate-slt.org.uk
26, Derby Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 2JF
01253 74972207476 419248
counselling.community@outlook.com
CSAP - Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire Children's Safeguarding Assurance Partnership
Diabetes UK in the Blackpool Area
Blackpool Centre For Independent Living, 259, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, FY3 9JL
Municiple Buildings, Corporation Street, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY1 1NF
01253 476656
07796 994 907
tracey.stott@blackpool.gov.uk
Empowerment Charity
333, Bispham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 0HH
01253 477959
0300 323 0251 : Advocacy Hub
admin@empowermentcharity.org.uk
333, Bispham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 0HH
0300 323 2100
admin@empowermentcharity.org.uk
Surestart Talbot & Brunswick, Gorton Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 3JW
01253 478320
Food and Chat at St John's Church
Each Thursday 12-2pm (starting 28th April) we’re going to put on some free lunch in an informal cafe style environment for anyone who’s first language isn’t English (predominantly for refugees and asylum seekers) to come, eat and grow in confidence with their conversation and language and build community.
I don’t know if you have any parents who fall in that category but if you do, they’d be so welcome to come.
Friend For Life
Fylde Coast Women's Aid- Ways to identify risk of exploitation and danger (WIRED) project.
01253 752014
31 Dingle Avenue, Blackpool, FY3 7NX
01253 476480
GrangeFamilyHub@blackpool.gov.uk
Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 8NR
01253 955148
bfwh.idva.isva@nhs.net
01253 951700
Housing Options Referral Form 08.03.2018.docxHousing options
Referral Form
Internet Matters
150-158, Whitegate Drive Health Centre, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 9ES
01253 952852
01253 952503
bfwh.ndp.referrals@nhs.net
NHS Blackpool Parent-Infant Relationship Service
Please can you share the attached newsletter/ referral form and service criteria with your team members as the New NHS Blackpool Parent-Infant Relationship Service (PaIRS) goes live today Wednesday 1st March 2023 and will be accepting referrals.
PaIRS aim to promote a loving secure relationship between primary caregivers’ and their infants, which lays the positive foundation for health and well-being that can last a lifetime.
The three strands the service will focus on are:
1. Therapeutic Interventions
2. Consultations
3. Training for stakeholders
We offer a suite of training packages to all stakeholders from a 30 min introduction to the PaIR service inc. referral pathway, to more in-depth training of Infant Mental Health and the importance of ‘The First 1001 critical days’.
For more information, please contact the team through bfwh.blackpooldutypairs@nhs.net or telephone 01253 958573
150 Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, FY3 9ES
01253 951615
Victoria Hospital, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR
07717 667421
sandra.singleton@bfwhospitals.nhs.uk
Victoria Hospital, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR
01253 955545
bfwh.child.epilepsy@nhs.net
Monday to Friday 10:00am to 3:00pm - for children & young people with complex needs
Devonshire Primary School, Devonshire Road, Blackpool, Lancashire , FY3 8AF
01253 899883
sophie@playinclusionproject.org.uk
RAIS
is rapid and intensive support – they are now the duty team for yp in crisis with their mental health (taken over from CAMHS) so they can be contacted for urgent advice and support, and they also assess yp who have presented at A&E due to their mental health.
Real Love Rocks
Resilience Coaches
The Resilience Coach Team sit within the School Standards, Safeguarding and Inclusion Services.
The Resilience Coach Team are committed to embedding a resilience based therapeutic approach, which focuses on breaking the cycle of social disadvantage, which impacts many young people. Our aim is for each young person to access and benefit from opportunities provided by school and the community.
Resilience Coaches work as equal partners with young people and their parents/carers to look at social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Ambitious plans can be made with the young person, enabling them to make informed choices and empowering them to be at the forefront of making positive plans for their future.
Why are Resilience Coaches and our programmes unique:
• Our innovative approach is underpinned by Resilient Therapy (Hart, et al, 2007), which is evidenced based. This approach has informed the newly developed Model of Practice, which is for all partners working alongside children, young people and families in Blackpool.
• It is an asset based approach which is focused on resilience building and is tailored to the individual need.
• The support is there throughout the year, including the school holidays.
• It empowers the young person and family to identify their own goals, maximising positive outcomes.
• The support is offered to the young person at school, home and in their community.
• The Resilience Coach Team have over four years’ experience of supporting the transition of young people from primary to secondary school.
. Supporting young people at risk of exclusion and with young people around self-harm. The Resilience Coach Team have established relationships with Blackpool schools and, some Lancashire school and are flexible and considerate to the demands of school life.
• The Resilience Coach Team have a good working knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, including expertise around self-harm, trauma informed care, thoughts of suicide, anxiety and depression.
Sharon Butler
Advanced Practitioner - Resilience Coach Team 07920702723
Resilience Revolution
Self Harm - Resilience Coaches
Self Harm
Available 7 days a week
Please ring the CASHER team to arrange where to meet 07810696565
07854 845590
Blackpool Sports Centre
West Park Drive , Blackpool , Lancashire , FY3 0AL
07859 916181
info@togetherwecan.org
For more information please contact: brett.whitehead@bfcct.co.uk
UR Potential
Chapel Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 5DA
01253 477270
housing.advice@blackpool.gov.uk
26, Talbot Road, Blackpool, FY1 1LF
Youtherapy continue to offer their weekly drop in on a Wednesday afternoon – this more therapeutic, offers guided self-help etc but you would have to check directly with them