Top Tips for Families to Stay Healthy and Happy at Home

The Public Health Children and Families team at Leeds City Council has been working with Active Leeds to develop a resource to share with families. The resource includes an activity pack, Ready Set Rainbow, with great ideas for fun things to do at home, together with an information leaflet which contains useful links, tips and phone numbers to help families stay healthy at home.

The leaflet is now available here for downloading HERE.

• It can be so hard to know what action to take when your child is unwell – especially during lockdown. Do you stay at home, call your GP or visit A&E? If in doubt, refer to this quick and useful ‘traffic light’ guide produced by doctors from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

 

• Are you starting your journey into parenthood during lockdown? Then download the Baby Buddy app – it will guide you through your pregnancy and the first six months of your baby’s life. For more tips on staying healthy at home, click here.

Breastfeeding support is still available too. Contact the infant feeding midwives on 0113 2065367 or for peer support you can text or call Cath on 0784 333 9574 or Suzanne on 0795 6077800.

 

• If you are struggling to access food for yourself or family because of money worries or self-isolation, please don’t go hungry. You can request emergency food provision by emailing thriving@leeds.gov.uk or ringing 0113 376 0330. For more tips on staying healthy at home, click here.

 

• Is the whole family sick of lockdown? Find fun stuff to do at home with Active Leeds, ways to boost mental wellbeing with Mindmate, and loads of other ideas from Child Friendly Leeds. Click here to find out more.

 

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