Children, families, and safeguarding

If you can't keep living with your parents, we'll help you to go and live somewhere else.

Early Help is what we call the support we give to children and families as soon as problems start.

Information about adopting a child, becoming a foster carer, or providing supported lodgings.

Details of organisations working to safeguard young people, and how to report a concern about a child.

Information about childcare, Family Hubs (children's centres), and being ready for school.

Have your say about children's services by getting involved in one of our groups for young people.

Kinship care is where children are cared for by members of their extended family, friends, or other people they’re connected to.

The children's care jargon buster explains some of the terms used in children's social care.

Working with young people, parents, victims of crime and partners, to prevent and reduce crime.

In Middlesbrough Children’s Services our mission is to show Middlesbrough children they matter.

Allowances to help with the cost of taking care of a child or young person under an SGO or CAO.