Children & Young People
There is a wide variety of information available here for parents and young people. You can find out more about sports in Bury, libraries, music centres, education, bullying, get child protection advice, have a look at the wealth of information in the Youth Service website, links to other sites and much more.
Parents and children
Local information
Coming soon...
This page is currently being redesigned and will soon have a new look. The page will be linked to an online database called 'Find it 4 me' which will offer a wealth of local and national information for children, young people and families. It will also link to many of Children's Services frequently requested topics such as learning, health and activities, with an improved format.
- BRAG - a 2 week summer programme for 11 - 16 year olds.
- BRAIN - a team formed to work with children aged 5 -13 and families to encourage reading
Childcare information - Bury Children's Information Service.
- Children's events - select 'Childrens' from event type.
- Children with disabilities - information about the support given to parents and children with disabilities and special needs.
- Road safety
- Schools in Bury
- Further helpful local support organisations - Links and contact details for local support organisations.
- ContactPoint - a quick way for those working with children and young people to find out who else is working with the same child or young person.
- Common Assessment Framework (CAF) - a national standard approach to conducting an assessment of the needs of children, young people and their families and deciding how these should be met.
- Children's Trust - a multi-agency partnership of organisations concerned with the welfare of children and young people.
National information
Bookstart - a programme working with locally based organisations to give books to babies.
Childline's bullying web pages
Days out ideas
Racism
- Family advice from
Channel 4
- Further helpful national support organisations - for example, alcohol misuse, bullying, eating disorders...
Young people
Our website for young people is due to go live soon with loads of information including the following:
- What's On
- Have Your Say
- Get Active
- Your Tunes
- Contact us at the Youth Service
Contact us for confidential information, advice and support.
Phone us free: 0800 511111
Text us on: 07786 511111
Live webtalk with us at:
What now? On the web. This website also provides information and advice to young people aged 11-25.
Other useful links to information in Bury:
Connexions provides confidential advice and guidance to young people aged 13-19, or 25 with special needs on: careers, employment, benefits, housing, training and education.
- Infomation about learning opportunities for 14 to 19 year olds.
- Student and pupil finance - financial support to school age, higher and further education students.
- Sport - information on sports, games and facilities.







