Here are some websites and sources of local information that you may find useful.

Childcare Choices: Government help with childcare costs for parents. Whether you have toddlers or teens, you could get support

Oxfordshire Families Information Service

Information about Didcot Library

Turn2us: helps people in financial need gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help (including with energy and water bills) – online, by phone and face to face through their partner organisations. You can visit their website for a range of really helpful information and advice.

Supporting young children’s language and literacy: Words for Life 

Supporting young children’s early reading and phonics: Oxford Owl Phonics

Family Lives

Gingerbread: Information to help single parents support themselves and their families.

Internet Safety for Children: CEOP Education

Strategies to help your child communicate: Communication and Interaction Support Poster

BBC Tiny Happy People

50 Things to Do Before You’re Five: Simply put, there is no more powerful way to improve our children’s life chances and futures than by spending time with them and by talking with them. When life is busy, it’s easy for communication to become about what we are telling or directing children to do. Here is an app that can help find free and easy ways to reconnect and enjoy time spending together.

Supporting children with their speech sounds

Learning to Read and Write – Jan 2021

Games to play together:

Play free Phase 1 and Phase 2 phonics games together: Phonics Play Resources

Play free number games together: Maths Games