Cornwall Council

In this episode of the Empowered Parenting Podcast, we look at the new Best Start in Life guidance on screen time. We explain what the advice means for families and share simple tips to help children use screens in a healthy way.

In this episode of the Empowered Parenting Podcast, we explore Cornwall's Phones Away, Talk and Play campaign, sharing the research behind the initiative and practical tips to help families build stronger connections, communication and play through mindful phone use.

A new online guide has been developed as a ‘roadmap’ to support the ongoing #CEtheSigns of child exploitation campaign. The resources have been designed to help us all to work together to protect children from harm and stop this abuse from happening in the first place. The roadmap has been produced for professionals who have concerns about child exploitation and the aim is to provide information on thresholds and pathways and to signpost to local support for children and their families. In today’s podcast we hear from the people behind the roadmap and talk about what might be useful for parents to know about the roadmap and support available to families.

This week we are joined by Kim, Educational Psychology, and Amy, Primary School Teacher, who are both involved with the St Austell Festival of Children’s Literature to talk to us about the National Year of Reading and how we can support children’s reading for pleasure. They will also give us a sneak peek of the upcoming Festival!

On today’s episode we are joined by Vicki, Education Lead, to tell us all about and exciting new support for parents and carers in Cornwall – the Kernow Education Advice Line. We will find out what this new Advice Line can support with and how parents and carers can get in touch.

In this episode of our Child Development: From Birth to Adolescence series, Parenting Workers Amanda and Emma join us to explore the importance of self-care and emotional containment. Together, they discuss how looking after your own wellbeing helps you stay calm, support your child through big emotions, and create a sense of safety at home.

In the final episode in our series on Domestic Abuse services in Cornwall, we are joined by Abi and Sian to tell us all about the Family Domestic Abuse Support Advisors and how they can support parents and families.

Following the last episode on Domestic Abuse services in Cornwall, we realised that there were so many more questions we didn’t have time for. This week we are joined by Fleur from Barnardo’s to tell us more about the Change 4 U offer.