Parent support
Build Your Child’s Emotional Security, Wherever You Are
As parents, we all want our children to feel safe, loved, and confident. But sometimes, understanding what they really need—especially in tricky moments—can be a challenge.
The Circle of Security Parenting™ (COSP) programme is a warm, supportive, and evidence-based way to strengthen your relationship with your child. It helps you understand their emotional needs, respond in ways that build trust, and guide them towards independence while still being their safe place.
This course is free and open to families registered with a GP in West Essex (Harlow, Uttlesford or Epping Forest)
About the Programme
COSP was developed by leading attachment experts and has been used worldwide, including here in the UK, to help parents and carers.
You’ll learn:
How to recognise what your child needs in the moment.
When to step in and offer comfort, and when to give space for exploration.
How to manage difficult behaviours with empathy and understanding.
Ways to repair connection after misunderstandings or conflict.
How We Deliver COSP
We run the programme over six live Zoom sessions, each lasting around 90 minutes. Sessions are friendly, interactive, and guided by a trained facilitator.
To make it accessible for busy families, we offer various start dates throughout the year at different times.
All you need is an internet connection, a device with a camera, and a quiet space.
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Personalised and flexible
Therapy should fit you, not the other way around. We have a pool of more than 40 compassionate and qualified professionals offering a wide range of therapies, and we’ll find the perfect fit for you — from art and play therapy to talking therapies.
Your journey is your own, and we’re here to support you every step of the way.
Safe hands
The safety and wellbeing of every child, young person and family who uses our services is at the heart of everything we do. Our charity operates within a clear and robust safeguarding strategy that ensures all children, young people and vulnerable adults are protected from harm and supported in a safe, respectful and therapeutic environment. Our therapists are fully qualified professionals, and we’re proud members of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) which means we follow strict quality and ethical guidelines. Through safe recruitment processes, enhanced DBS checks, ongoing safeguarding training, clear reporting pathways, strong clinical supervision and strategic leadership we create a protective framework where children and families can engage with our services with confidence, knowing they are in safe hands.
Safeguarding Commitment Statement
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults with care and support needs who access our services. Our organisation’s Safeguarding Children and Adults Policy sets out clearly our responsibilities, expectations and procedures to prevent harm, identify when abuse or neglect may be occurring, and respond appropriately.
We implement this commitment by operating within a rigorous multi-agency framework consistent with local best practice in Essex. For children and young people this means we work in accordance with the SET (Southend, Essex & Thurrock) / ESCB Child Protection Procedures — the recognised local protocol for how agencies in Essex should co-operate, share information and act at the earliest opportunity to support children and families.
For adults at risk, we follow the ESAB multi-agency Safeguarding Adults policies and procedures — ensuring that anyone with care and support needs is able to live safely, free from abuse or neglect, and that their voice is central to all safeguarding decisions.
In practical terms we will:
maintain open channels for reporting any safeguarding concern and ensure all staff, volunteers and partners know how to act.
ensure suitably trained and competent staff and volunteers operate safe recruitment and induction processes, aligned with local safeguarding expectations.
cooperate fully with local authority children’s services, adult social care, the police and health partners when safeguarding concerns arise.
regularly review our safeguarding arrangements, monitor compliance and update our practice in line with national and local developments, including the ESCB and ESAB guidance.
place the individual at the centre of our safeguarding approach — working to ensure their wishes, feelings and outcomes are respected and protected.
We believe safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Through this combined framework — our internal policy plus adherence to local multi-agency procedures in Essex — we strive to provide safe, respectful and effective care for all those we support.
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