Consistent mentoring
Regular mentoring that helps set personal goals and build positive habits.
Parents and carers
Local support that can walk with your family
When school feels hard, you do not have to figure everything out alone. Here is practical guidance and local Barking and Dagenham services that can help.
Settling into a new school place, or supporting a young person who is struggling, can feel overwhelming. Progress is usually stronger when school, home and local support work together.
This page sets out best-practice ideas for mentoring, counselling and family support, plus a directory of organisations serving Barking and Dagenham. Places at Evolution Education are arranged through schools and local authorities. If you need help finding the right contact here, email admin@evolution-sportsgroup.com.
Mentoring
Mentoring and youth advocacy
One-to-one mentoring can rebuild confidence and give a young person a trusted adult outside the day-to-day pressure of school.
Staying safe in the community
Support that helps young people make safer choices and feel looked after beyond the school day.
Bridging school moves
Coaching that helps transitions between schools feel manageable and hopeful.
Local mentoring providers
Organisations in Barking and Dagenham that offer mentoring and youth advocacy.
LifeLine Projects
SW!TCH Lives, Futures and Minds mentoring. Email info@lifelineprojects.co.uk
Spark2Life
One-to-one casework, early prevention workshops and family advocacy. Email info@spark2life.co.uk
Elevate Her UK
Mentoring and personal development for girls. Email support@elevateheruk.org
Wellbeing
Counselling and mental health support
Anxiety, undiagnosed learning needs and emotional distress often sit underneath school difficulty. Support that treats the whole family can make a real difference.
Family counselling
Support that strengthens communication and calm at home.
Practical coping strategies
Help for a young person to spot triggers early and settle themselves.
Looking beneath behaviour
Support that asks what has happened to a young person, not only what they have done.
Parents
Parent peer support
Parents navigating school meetings or a new placement often feel isolated. Peer support reduces that pressure.
Safe peer groups
Spaces where parents can share experience and practical strategies.
Parent-to-parent buddying
Connecting with someone who has already walked a similar path.
Skills-based workshops
Training on communication, online safety and supporting neurodivergent children.
Parent empowerment programmes
Two local routes that help parents become confident advocates.
Community Parenting Academy (LifeLine Projects): training that helps parents become confident advocates in their communities.
Spark2Life Parent Champions: parent advocate training for exclusion appeals and multi-agency meetings.
Joined-up help
Team Around the Family
Complex situations are rarely solved by one service alone. Best practice wraps support around the household with clear communication.
One main contact
A single point of contact so families are not retelling their story to every agency.
Restorative conversations
Facilitated talks that repair relationships between home, school and the young person.
Early Help
Support as soon as school engagement starts to slip, before things escalate.
Local support directory: Barking and Dagenham
Quick contacts for mentoring networks, counselling providers and family support teams across the borough.
LifeLine Projects
Mentoring, mental health mentoring, Community Parenting Academy · info@lifelineprojects.co.uk
Spark2Life
Youth casework, exclusion prevention, Parent Champions · info@spark2life.co.uk
Carers of Barking & Dagenham
SEND Information, Advice and Support, exclusion advice, parent carer groups · 334 Heathway, Dagenham, RM10 8NJ · 020 8593 4422
Elevate Her UK
Mentoring and personal development for girls · support@elevateheruk.org
LBBD Education Inclusion Team
School-family relationships, placement coordination, Fair Access · inclusion@lbbd.gov.uk
LBBD Early Help Hubs
Team Around the Family, family intervention, parenting courses · earlyhelp@lbbd.gov.uk
Next step
Need help finding the right support?
Email admin@evolution-sportsgroup.com and we will point you to the right person at Evolution Education or in the local network.