How to get in touch

There are several ways in which you can contact Brighter Futures for Children:

Telephone

Please call 0118 937 3641 and select one of the following options:

Option 1: Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA) team to report concerns about a child or young person

Option 2: Access and Assessment team (now part of the Together for Families Service)

Option 3: Family Intervention team (now part of the Together for Families Service)

Option 4: Children Look After and the Leaving Care team

Option 5: School admissions

Option 6: Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) team (not the Local Offer, see below)

Option 7: Children and Young People’s Disability team

Option 8: All other enquiries

Out of hours

Emergency Duty Service (EDS) is open to the general public for out of hours emergencies only, from 5pm to 9am, Monday to Friday and 5pm Friday to 9am Monday. This includes bank holidays.

If you need to report a safeguarding concern outside of regular working hours, call EDS on 01344 351999  

Other useful numbers:

You can call 0118 937 3777 option 2 for our Family Information Service, childcare queries, two-year-olds childcare funding, the Children’s Disability Register and for all information on our Reading SEND Local Offer.

If you have a compliment or complaint, please see our page with full information here, or call 0118 937 2905. Please do not use the general number or Option 8 above.

Our Mental Health Support Team can be contacted on 0118 937 6548 or email: MHST@brighterfuturesforchildren.org

Email

For general enquiries: info@brighterfuturesforchildren.org

Post

Brighter Futures for Children
Civic Offices
Bridge Street
Reading RG1 2LU

You can also contact one of the locations below

Ranikhet Children’s Centre

Spey Road
Reading RG30 4ED
T 0118 937 5221

Southcote Children’s Centre

85 Coronation Square
Southcote
Reading RG30 3QP
T 0118 937 2535

Coley Children’s Centre

St Mary’s & All Saints School
Wensley Road
Reading RG1 6DU
T 0118 937 2535

Whitley Children’s Centre

330 Northumberland Avenue
Reading RG2 8DH
T 0118 937 3894

Sun Street Children’s Centre

Sun Street
Reading RG1 3JX
T 01189 372 551

Whitley Health & Social Services Centre

252 Northumberland Avenue
Reading RG2 7QA
T 0118 937 6145

Pinecroft & Cressingham Children’s Homes
T 0118 937 4203

Youth Offending Services

16 North Street
Reading RG1 7DA
T 0118 937 4322