The Safe Parenting Handbook

 

This handbook can offer ideas and information to help you find your way through what can be a maze of issues and advice.

 

It gives contacts and further information you can follow up when you are deciding how to deal with your worries and difficulties. 

 

This handbook also lists some of the warning signs of particular difficulties and offers helpful tips.

 

Use this link to go directly to download a copy of the Safe Parenting Handbook

 

Read the introduction from the Handbook

 

 

 

This Handbook is for use by local parents and trainers. 

 

 

Who has produced this guide? 

 

This handbook has been produced by Sheffield Children’s Fund in partnership with the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Board, SSCB (formerly the Sheffield Area Child Protection Committee, ACPC).

 

 

To Obtain a Copy 

 

A copy of the handbook is available to download from this site – see below. 

 

Alternatively, to order a copy of the handbook or for more information please contact:

 

Sheffield Children Safeguarding Board (SSCB)

Floor 2

Redvers House

Union Street

Sheffield

S1 2JQ

 

By Telephone: 0114 273 4450 or

 

By E-mail: sscb@sheffield.gov.uk

 

 

Yes.  If you would like to download a copy of the Safe Parenting Handbook in one of the five Community Languages (Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, Somali and Arabic) then please follow one of these links: Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, Somali and Arabic. 

 

 

 

Encouraging better behaviour Use this link to go directly to download

 

The NSPCC has produced this extremely helpful and informative guide to practical parenting.  It provides information on positive parenting and looks at why physical punishment is never a good idea for children of any age.

 

Keeping your Cool - A Parent's guide to anger Use this link to go directly to download

 

Also produced by the NSPCC, this excellent guide offers advice for parents who want to know more about anger and ways in which to deal with it.

 

Behave yourself Use this link to go directly to download

 

A practical guide to encouraging better behaviour in children.

 

 

“Introduction

 

 

 

Every family experiences difficulty from time to time and this can test the best of parents. When additional pressures come along, these can make a hard job nearly impossible. At these times it may be hard to think about what help or information you might need.

 

When things go wrong it does not mean that someone has failed in parenting – things go wrong for everyone. It is often the way difficulties are handled that can make a difference to your children, both now and in the future.

 

There is no such thing as the perfect parent. However, there are some ways that can make it a less stressful and more rewarding experience.”

 

The Safe Parenting Handbook 2003, page 2, Sheffield Children’s Fund & The Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board, Coles McConnell Design, Maidstone. Web site: Every Child Matters 

 

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