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🆘 Crisis 💙 Support

When Things Feel Too Much

If you're reading this because things feel overwhelming — please know: what you're feeling is valid. You are not failing. You are carrying an enormous weight, and it's okay to need help.

📞 Urgent mental health: NHS 111 (select the mental-health option) 💬 Samaritans: 116 123 🚑 Emergency: 999

🆘 In Immediate Crisis?

If your child is in immediate danger or having a medical emergency, call 999.

Verified urgent mental-health routes

Contact details checked 26 July 2026. These routes are for both parents and children in Kent and Medway. If there is an immediate danger or risk to life, call 999.

Non-urgent autism-specific listening support

The National Autistic Society's Parent-to-Parent service offers emotional support through a callback requested with its online form. It aims to call within 12 working days. It is not an advice service or an emergency route, so use NHS 111 or 999 when the situation is urgent.

Practical Crisis Help

If the immediate problem is money, housing or food, use a current local search rather than relying on an old phone number:

💙 A Word to Parents

Being a SEND parent in Kent is exhausting in a way most people don't understand. The 11pm form-filling, the assessments that never come, the school emails, the worry that hums in the background of every day — it adds up.

If you're struggling tonight, call NHS 111 and select the mental-health option for urgent support, call Samaritans on 116 123 for someone to listen, or call 999 if there is immediate danger.

You're doing more than you realise. And you're definitely not the only one feeling this way.