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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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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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    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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