Children and young people

The following services are available to support children and young people in Surrey.
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Updated April 2026

Surrey Child and Family Health aims to make sure that all families in Surrey are supported from before children are born right through to age 19. 

Surrey Child and Family Health

0-19 Advice line: the 0-19 Advice line is available to parents and carers of babies, children, and young people for all aspects of health, development, and support.

Children and families – Healthy Surrey

Surrey Family Information Service: is a directory of services which includes information about childcare, holiday clubs, support groups and more.

Family Information Service – Surrey County Council

Mindworks – Access and Advice line: provides advice and signposting to existing support and act as a gateway for more specialist or clinical support.

Support and advice – Mindworks Surrey 

Mindworks – out of hours neurodiversity phone line: Provides advice to parents who are struggling with behaviours or difficulties which could be related to a neurodevelopmental need.

Out of hours advice line – Mindworks Surrey

The Mix: The Mix is the leading support service for young people and can support with a range of challenges that young people face.

Essential support for under 25s - The Mix

Children and young people: Advice and information when caring for young people. Includes information about their Call a midwife line which provides advice to expectant mothers at any point in their pregnancy and for the first few weeks after birth.

Children and young people – Surrey and Sussex ICB

Surrey Young Carers: Support for young people, caring for someone who has an illness, a disability, or is affected by mental health or alcohol/substance misuse - part of Action for Carers Surrey

Young carers (under 18) | Action for Carers

Giving Young Carers a Voice: Our Luminus team aims to involve people of any age who have caring responsibilities in the design and delivery of the services they use as they support their relatives, friends and neighbours.

Giving Carers a Voice - LUMINUS

Our Helpdesk

The Healthwatch Surrey Helpdesk is here to provide information and signposting to local people about health and social care services.

It’s also the place to share your experiences of health and social care. Whether it’s good or bad, big or small, we welcome your feedback and act on it to help improve care where you live.

Contact our Helpdesk