Parent Support
Having problems with your children? Finding it hard to communicate with them without arguing? Maybe you’re worried about the direction they are taking and feel you can’t help them?
If so, please rest assured that you are by no means alone. Very few parents have the perfect relationship with their children, particularly during the sometimes turbulent adolescent years!
Here at school, we have an extensive pastoral support system to help and support your children. We want you to know that we understand the problems you may be facing at home and want to offer you help to be the best parents and carers you can be.
On this page I’ve included some contact details for local support organisations and links to some great websites which cover a range of issues in much more detail than we can here.
If you would like to contact me about any concerns that you have about your children who are at Westgate School, or your interaction with them, or just want to use someone as a sounding board, then please feel free to email or phone on ahider@westgate.hants.sch.uk 01962 854757 x 211
Thanks,
Andy Hider, Pupil Support Worker
Local organisations:
Child Guidance | Friarsgate, Winchester | 01962 828355 |
Parenting Support Team | Hampshire | 01962 845448 |
Parentline Plus | Wessex House, Eastleigh | 0808 800 2222 |
Parent Partnership Support | Winchester | 01962 845870 |
Pregnancy Crisis Centre | Winchester | 01962 848033 |
Relate (young people) | Relationship breakdown | 01962 861336 |
Remix (drugs and alcohol) | YMCA, Swan Lane | 01962 868852 |
Youth Counselling | Jubilee House, Swan Lane | 01962 820444 |
Simon Says | (bereavement support for young people) | 02380 647550 |
Websites:
Hampshire Family Information Directory
Eating Issues | |
Childline | |
Cruse Bereavement | |
Bullying | |
FRANK (drugs info) | |
NHS Direct | |
NSPCC | |
Rape and Sexual Abuse | |
Parentline Plus | |
Raising Kids | |
Bereavement support | |
Counselling Directory |


