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Create your secure account and complete the registration process.
Meet Sparks Connect
Your secure connection to CHILD SPARKS.
Sparks Connect helps families stay connected with CHILD SPARKS between workshops, Book Club sessions and local activities. It brings useful information and family tools together in one secure place.
New to CHILD SPARKS? Get connected and tell us about your family. Already registered? Sign in to continue.
Why we created Sparks Connect
Support requests, events and family information can become scattered across messages and forms. Sparks Connect helps keep them together so families and the CHILD SPARKS team can follow up without starting again each time.
For parents and carers
- Keep information about your child’s strengths, interests and needs together
- Record goals and progress where those features are being used
- Request support and follow responses
- Find CHILD SPARKS activities, resources and updates
Not every family will use every feature. Use the parts that are relevant to your family.
Your Sparks Connect guide
Step-by-step help for parents and carers using Sparks Connect. Open the PDF to read it or save a copy to your device.
Download the parent guide (PDF) (opens in a new tab)A simple way to stay connected
How Sparks Connect works
Tell us about your family
Share the information CHILD SPARKS needs to understand your circumstances and the support you are seeking.
Stay connected
Request support, receive updates and access activities or information relevant to your family.
Build on what works
Over time, keep important information together and build on progress rather than starting again each time.
Your family’s information matters
Sparks Connect contains information about children and families, so privacy and safeguarding are built into how the platform works. Access is controlled according to a person's role and relationship with the family. We aim to collect information for a clear purpose, limit access to people who need it and keep an appropriate record of how information is used.
Families can find more detail in the Privacy Policy and in the privacy information provided during registration.
Application and privacy informationBefore joining: participation and safe activities
Read our Parent participation and group activities policy before applying. It explains supervision, safe behaviour, attendance, privacy, costs, support needs and how concerns are handled.
Read the participation policyNew to CHILD SPARKS?
Find out how to join, what happens next and how to take your first step with our community.
Read our getting started guideActivities in our community
Explore upcoming activities by town and date. Join Sparks Connect for further details and booking, subject to approval and eligibility.
Browse public activitiesA next step, together