Dear Parent/Carer
Over the course of the school closure the Pupil Support team will be checking emails and will do all we can to continue to support our pupils.
The best way to contact us initially is by email, this address will come to all Pupil Support Leaders and we will then reply based on relevant House group.
Please contact:
- Arran – Mr Robertson
- Orkney – Mr Macleod
- Skye – Ms Oliver/Ms Clarke
Using this email address:
If you have our individual email addresses please feel free to continue to use those.
If your child would like to email us directly themselves please share our email addresses with them.
The following phone numbers may also be useful:
- Social Care Direct (to contact Social Work for any new or ongoing issues) – 0131 200 2324
- Emergency Social Work Service – (out of hours) – 0800 731 6969
- Police Scotland Edinburgh – 01786 289070
- Police Scotland – 101 (non urgent), 999 (urgent)
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – 0131 537 6000
- Childline – 0800 1111 www.childline.org.uk
- Parentline Scotland – 08000 28 22 33
- Domestic Abuse Helpline – 0808 802 3333
- Children 1st – 0131 446 2300
- NSPCC – 0808 800 5000
- Samaritans – 116123 or jo@samaritans.org
- Parent Line Scotland – 08000282233
- Home Link – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 661 0890
- Home Start – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 564 1540
- Cedar – voluntary agency offering advice or support for children affected by domestic abuse – 0131 315 8116/ 07850 515 283
- Circle – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 552 0305
- CHAI- voluntary agency offering advice, housing support and employability support – 0131 442 1009
We’d like to wish everyone well over the coming weeks and hope that things get back to normal as soon as possible.Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can do anything to help.
Best wishes,
The Pupil Support team
Update - 30/3/20
Mental Health UK have developed a variety of resources for parents and carers to support them in having conversations with young people about resilience and mental health which we think is hugely important during this time and at other times. The Bloom Resource Library website can be found at https://mentalhealth-uk.org/partnerships/bloom-resource-library/
They have also developed some guidance on how to have conversations about Covid-19 with young people, and provide reassurance during these challenging times. The resource is available on their website: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/blog/how-to-have-an-open-conversation-with-young-people-about-coronavirus/
Update - 2/4/20
You can download an update from NHS Lothian's Healthy Respect team here
