World Social Work Day – 16th March 2021

Every year World Social Work day has a theme and the theme for this year is:…

Mothering Sunday 14th March 2021

We have celebrated Mothering Sunday here at Amber Family and shared some gifts with our…

Children’s Mental Health Week 1st-7th February 2021

Place2Be launched the first ever Children’s Mental Health Week in 2015 to shine a spotlight…

New Blog Post from one of our Registered Managers Nicola Miller

How do we Measure Positive Parenting? Nicola Miller.  January 2021 As a parent myself and a…

Merry Christmas

Whether you love or loathe Christmas, whether you celebrate it or not, this time of…

Christmas is in full swing at Amber Family

As well as decorating all of the beautiful Christmas trees and putting up all of…

Alcohol Awareness Week 2020

As we kick off a week of Alcohol Awareness, it seems fitting to highlight how Russell…

Children In Need

Our families have been getting in the spirit of Children In Need today. We have…

Remembrance Day

The staff and families have been completing lots of activities this week to pay tribute…

The Lullaby Trust video on caring for baby during the pandemic

We know that this is a difficult time for many, so The Lullaby Trust have…

Winter Lockdown access to settings

Although another full lockdown is looming, Amber Family remains confident in the policies and procedures…

Six years of Amber Family – What we’ve learned – Carol Benbow

When Gill and I started working on the concept of Amber Family, she was on…

Halloween is upon us

We would like to wish you all a happy Halloween from Amber Family. We know…

Our New Video Launch

We are very excited that our video created for the website has been launched today.…

Lovely Feedback for Amber House!

It’s always lovely to receive well deserved acknowledgment for the hard work each and every…

Stoptober

Stoptober: the 28-day stop smoking challenge Are you thinking of quitting smoking? Research has shown…

Mental Health First Aider Training

Most of the Amber Family Staff team are Mental Health First Aiders and have already…

Shaken Baby Simulator Doll Arrives

Our Shaken Baby Simulator Doll arrived today all the way from America and we are…

Baby Loss Awareness Week 9-15th October 2020

Pregnancy and baby loss is a devastating and uniquely personal experience and for many it…

World Mental Health Awareness Day

Saturday 10th October 2020 is World Mental Health Awareness Day   Having good mental health…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Amber Family have been doing lots to raise awareness of the importance of checking your…

Introducing our Social Work Apprentices

Congratulations to Amy, Ange and Beckie who are each completing the BA Social Work apprenticeship…

Our Virtual Macmillan Coffee Morning

The mum of one of our Registered Manager’s usually hosts a coffee morning but sadly…

Amber Family are Recruiting!

Are you; Encouraging? Flexible? Supportive? Honest? Dependable? Reliable? Do you have a natural ability to…

Black Tie Dinner – Over £12,000 raised!

The Black Tie Dinner held at Hurlston Hall recently to raise funds for Lucy's Mission…

Macmillan Coffee Morning

The team at Amber Family organised a coffee morning on Tuesday 8th October to raise…

Talking Therapy Service

Amber Family are pleased to report that we are working with Paula Cook Counselling to…

Congratulations!!

The Amber Family Team have been studying hard these past couple of years and special…

Five to Thrive Staff Feedback

We at Amber Family encourage and support parents to carry out the five basic tools…

Restorative Practice

‘A restorative process is any process in which the victim and the offender and, where…

Gateway Programme

Working closely with Linda Davies from Tools 4 Change, who devised this program, two members…

Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

On Tuesday 9th October, Carol Benbow and Gill Whalley attended the launch of the report, “Born into…

Amber House & Lodge – We’re Good!

Amber House & Lodge were recently visited by two OFSTED Inspectors on an unannounced inspection.…

Restorative Service

Eight members of Amber Family recently attended a week's training course with Dr Belinda Hopkins…

Amber Grange is now open!

Following on from a recent news item, Carol, Gill and the rest of the Amber…

Star Trekking – 20th May 2016

A number of Amber staff braved the elements on Friday 20th May and embarked on…

One in four mothers of newborns placed in care have multiple children removed

A study by the University of Lancaster has discovered that a quarter of birth mothers…