Aged 11-19
We will support your child in a range of ways: emotional health, weight management, healthy relationships ensuring those with long term illnesses and other needs get extra support when needed. We help young people throughout their school life to reach their full potential.
Aged 19-25
We continue to support young people with additional needs up to the age of 25 and their families.
Young People’s Wellbeing Drop In Sessions
We offer a weekly, safe and confidential wellbeing drop-in session in the local area for anyone aged 8 to 18 years. We can offer wellbeing advice, signpost you to services and talk about any difficulties with which you may feel you need some extra support.
Solihull online course – Understanding your teenager’s brain
Find out what happens to the brain as a child hits adolescence in this SHORT course. See how this explains some of the changes in their behaviour that you’ve noticed. Enter the code TAMAR, fill in a few details to create an account. You can then sign in to your course.
CheckPoint – Substance Misuse Service
Information, advice and support for young people who use drugs or alcohol (including new psychoactive substances). We provide tier 3 care planned, goal-based treatment as well as tier 2 interventions around drugs education and harm reduction.
You can self-referral or be referred by your schools, GP’s, CAMHS or YOT.
CheckPoint – Return home interviews
We offer return home interviews to children and young people who go missing from home/care.
Referrals made by the police via missing and found COMPACTS.
Children and Young People aged 8-18 have a right to an advocate if they are subject to child protection planning or are looked after by Torbay Local Authority to ensure that their wishes, feelings and views are taken into account when decisions are being made about them. We also support children & young people who wish to make a representation or formal complaint about children’s social care.
The Children’s Society – Independent Visitor Service
If you are a child in care and aged 8-18, you could get an Independent Visitor. This is an adult you can talk to, trust and build a friendship with. They’ll listen and support you to be the person you want to be. Monthly visits usually involve going somewhere fun, doing something you both enjoy together like playing football in a park, or going for a bite to eat together, maybe bowling, or the cinema.
Independent Visitors are volunteers and when recruited are asked to make a 2 year commitment. They receive regular supervision from The Volunteer Coordinator.
To access this service you can self-referral or a social worker, foster carer, residential staff and Independent Reviewing Officer can refer you.
Call Checkpoint on 01803 290330
Solihull online course – Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)
Find out what’s happening in your brain! Your brain changes as you hit adolescence. Going to sleep later? See how the changes in your brain explain some of the changes in your behaviour.
This is a free course if you live in Torbay, just create an account and enter the code TAMAR
Solihull online course – Understanding your child with additional needs
This online course is for parents with a child with additional needs. It is for parents, relatives and friends of children who may have a physical or learning disability or who may have autistic traits. In the UK, you may be within the SEND (Special educational needs and disability) system. Some parents describe their child as differently abled, or neuroatypical.
This course is in 2 sections. Level 1 lays the foundation for understanding your child. Level 2 looks at some particular aspects of parenting: sleeping and anger management, together with more about how we interact with each other. Understanding this can make it easier to work with your child’s behaviour as well as supporting their development. Once you finish Level 1 you can progress to Level 2 if you’d like to.
To access this course for free, just enter the code TAMAR.
Solihull online course – Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing
If you are either interested or worried about your child’s mental health and wellbeing, then this course is for you.
This course ‘Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing’ is unusual as it introduces you to mental health and wellbeing in Part 1…, then you leave this course and complete ‘Understanding your child’ …and then come back to Part 2 of this course.
If you have already completed ‘Understanding your child’ then you don’t need to do it again (unless you want a refresh or to look at it from a different angle).
Enter the code TAMAR to access it for free.
0 to 19 Torbay Referral Form
If you would like to refer a child or young person to the 0 to 19 team which includes school nurses please complete this form.
Your 0 to 19 Journey – Supporting you and your family
Find out about all the services and support available to you from pregnancy onwards and how to access them. All our services are free.