The pledge:

Pledge by Family Action

1) Run Perinatal support services that use volunteer befrienders to provide social, emotional and practical help to families.
2) Support young carers. This includes assessing and reduce their caring role where possible, provision of respite, opportunities to share experiences and young carers services link with schools.
3) Run Our Space service which provides a self-referral lunchtime support service for children in years 3 to 6 that focuses on social and emotional wellbeing.
4) Run Targeted mental health in school’s services are a range of strategies and interventions to support schools respond to the emotional wellbeing needs of their pupils.

Changes made:

1) We will run Perinatal Support Services that use volunteer befrienders to provide social, emotional and practical help to families.
2) We will support young carers. This includes assessing and reduce their caring role where possible, provision of respite, opportunities to share experiences and young carers services link with schools.
3) Our Friendship Works service will provide long term volunteer mentors to support the wellbeing and self-esteem of children with multiple disadvantages