• Skip to content
  • Skip to navigation
  • Your account Your account
Bristol City Council

bristol.gov.uk

  • Your accounts
  • For residents
  • For business
  • Council
  • For residents
  • Social care and health
  • Children and families

Children and families

Visit our Fostering website
Visit the SEND Local Offer website
Visit our social work jobs website
  • Support for parents and carers

    Contact us if you need support with parenting or you think that your child needs some help from us.

  • Adoption, fostering and private fostering

    How to adopt or foster in Bristol and support for children who are adopted or living in foster care.

  • Caring for a family or friend's child

    There’s a range of legal options you can consider when looking after a family or friend’s child.

  • Concerns about a child

    If you have any concerns about a child or young person please do not leave it to someone else to deal with.

  • Help for families

    Local and national resources and support for families.

  • Children in employment

    Children can be employed in certain occupations from 13 to 16 years old.

  • Social work contact details: children and young people

    Contact details if you need to speak to someone about a child who has a social worker.

  • Complain or comment about children's social care services

    You can make a complaint or leave feedback about children's social care services online.

  • Special educational needs and disabilities

    Education, health and care services for children and young people from birth to 25 years old with special educational needs and disabilities.

  • Social care support for children and families

    What social care support is, how we assess needs and how we provide help.

  • Bristol's Local Offer for special educational needs and disability

    Find information, guidance and resources for families about support we offer for children and young people with special educational needs.

  • Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

    What the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is, our role in the inquiry, how to contribute to the inquiry.

  • Insight Bristol and the Think Family Database

    Information about Insight Bristol, the Think Family Database and Think Family Education, how we handle data, other helpful links.

  • 10 March 2023: Ofsted inspection report of Children’s Services

  • Refer a family to the Home Safety Scheme

    About the scheme, how to refer families, what happens next.

Tell us about a problem with a form, page or online account
  • Contact
  • Complaints and feedback
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
Bristol City Council

Follow us:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Nextdoor
  • Instagram

Copyright © 2025 Bristol City Council