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Apps to support your family

Below are trusted, evidence-based apps, recommended by the Department for Education and the NHS.


Easy Peasy

Download the EasyPeasy App for FREE. Search in the App Store or Google Play.

You can choose from different categories to personalise what you see on the newsfeed:

  • Tips to make everyday struggles, like teeth brushing and tidying up into a game 
  • Fun and free activities and games to try at home
  • How to calm a tantrum 
  • Make connections with other parents from around the world
  • Share your top parenting tips
  • Arts and crafts projects using everyday items 

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Pause

Download the Pause App – available for Barnsley Families!
Being a parent isn’t always easy – but you don’t have to do it alone. The Pause App gives you simple tips, tools, and support to help with everyday parenting.

📱 Easy to use
💬 Chat with other Barnsley parents
🧠 Learn new ways to handle tricky moments
🎯 Fun and helpful features

Use the code: BARNS to unlock special parenting tools!
Download the app today and start your parenting journey.


Dad Pad

Download the DadPad App for FREE. Just search in the App Store or Google Play

The app covers topics such as:

    • Feeding, holding and changing your baby.
    • How to survive without sleep
    • What to do when the crying won’t stop.
    • Safer sleeping.
    • Home safety and first aid.
    • How best to look after yourself and your partner

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    Little Journey

    The Little Journey smartphone app is a guide that takes children and their carers on a tour from the waiting room to the operating room around Barnsley Hospital, all through smartphone devices.

    Imagine animated doctors, nurses, popping up on your screen, ready to show you around and answer all your questions. There are characters like a koala nurse and a rhinoceros doctor who are designed to help youngsters feel at ease.

    Search in the App store or Google Play

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    Barnsley's SEND Local Offer

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    Find information for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities.

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    Great Childhoods Ambition

    Explore what’s possible for children, young people and families in Barnsley. 

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    Barnsley Children's University

    As part of our Great Childhoods Ambition, we've partnered up with the Children’s University Trust to launch the Barnsley Children’s University.

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    Help us improve the Virtual Family Hub

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    Find valuable information and support for our Armed Forces community and families at Armed Forces Barnsley.

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