Staying Safe outside College

If you need some urgent help these contacts may be useful:

• Life Threatening Emergencies – Call 999: If someone is seriously ill or injured, and their life is at risk.

• Non-Life Threatening Emergencies – Call 101

• For health/medical advice – Phone 111 NHS Medical Service but for more serious worries visit your local Accident and Emergency Department or NHS Choices for any health related advice on www.nhs.uk.

• For suicidal feelings – Call the Samaritans: on free phone number on 116 123 or visit www.samaritans.org or www.papyrus-uk.org.

• Childline – Call free on 0800 1111, whatever your worry they are there to help. You can register at www.childline.org.uk for a 1-2-1 counsellor chat or you can send an email.

• Kooth – Confidential online counselling for under 19 years in Bath and North East Somerset area. Visit www.kooth.com for more information.

• For Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Advice – Call CASH on 01225 826855 or you can ask at an Accident and Emergency or Minor Injury Departments.  Also www.safebanes.co.uk

• Off the Record: FREE, CONFIDENTIAL and INDEPENDENT services for children and young people that support the development of emotional health and well-being at www.offtherecord-banes.co.uk or 01225 312 481 or office@offtherecord-banes.co.uk

• Substance misuse: Call Project 28 on 01225 463344 or email office@dhiproject28.org.uk

• Abusive relationships – Southside, Bath: Call or text (SMS) 07724 011051 or email yp.support@south-side.org.uk

• Rape or sexual assault – Call Bridge Clinic on 0117 3426999 or contact the Police.

• For bullying – Bullying UK: Visit www.bullying.co.uk or call 0808 800 2222  for emotional support.

• For mental health – Mind: Visit www.mind.org.uk or call 0300 123 3393, you can also consult your GP or phone 111.

• For support around bereavement – Cruse: call free on 0808 808 1677 or visit www.cruse.org.uk

• For housing worries – ‘Shelter’ 0808 800 4444, 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 8am-5pm Saturday-Sunday. Calls are free from UK landlines and main mobile networks (Virgin, EE, 3, T-mobile, Vodafone and O2).