- Childline
- Provided by the NSPCC, offers help and confidential advice to children on all matters relating to health, domestic violence and bullying. Includes a free helpline.
- The Hideout
- Helps children and young people understand domestic violence and provides advice and links to helplines. Includes personal stories, a tour of a virtual refuge, games and celebrity endorsements. From Women's Aid.
- BBC NI Schools: It's Up To You
- Presents facts, animations, quizzes and activities about healthy eating.
- The Beat for Young People
- Provides information on eating disorders, including how to get help or how to help a friend who you suspect has an eating disorder.
- Boots Learning Store
- Presents a wide variety of interactive lessons and games with health and human body themes; contains sections for both primary and secondary aged children.
- Chew on This
- Designed for secondary school students, featuring information about food, its ingredients, environmental impact, marketing and how to eat healthily.
- Dyspraxic Teens Forum
- Discussion forum for UK teens with dyspraxia.
- Get Brainy with the Binks
- Contains games and activities on the theme of food safety and healthy nutrition, split into three sections for children aged between 4 and 14. Also features teacher information and a preschool section for parents. From Asda.
- Give and Let Live
- NHS children's site examining transplants of organs, blood and bone marrow. Contains articles, quizzes, games and information about how to pledge to donate blood or bone marrow when the child becomes old enough.
- Headz Up
- Features advice and support for children and teens who have alopecia; includes games, jokes, message boards and advice on looking good and staying confident.
- Health.e School
- Features games and activities for primary and secondary school children across the UK but particularly in Wales on the themes of smoking and nutrition.
- Healthy Kids
- Offering basic health care information aimed at children aged 3+ with some resources and definitions for older primary aged children too.
- Kids First For Health
- Great Ormond Street Hospital presents interactive features on the human body, an A-Z of illnesses, stories from children about their health issues and an Ask the Doc section as well as information on healthy eating.
- The National Blood Service: Fun and Games
- Features games and quizzes related to blood and blood donation, including a virtual donor session and an animated "bloody bits" mini site providing information on the human body by Nick Arnold, author of the Horrible Science books.
- National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy
- Features downloadable booklets about epilepsy and information and advice for young people and their parents.
- NHS Organ Donation: Children's Leaflet
- Online leaflet explaining to children what organ transplantation is and how life after a transplant will be.
- Quit Because
- Offers advice, support and resources for young people wanting to give up smoking. Includes video clips and downloadable fitness sheets.
- Staying Positive
- Offers information about self-management workshops for young people living with long term health conditions.
- Step Up
- Aims to encourage more secondary school pupils to walk to school, at least part of the way. Contains fact sheets, blogs and resources for getting involved.
- Teens Unite Fighting Cancer
- Dedicated to helping improve the quality of life for teenagers in the UK with life limiting illnesses. Includes inspiration, personal stories and details of events and support.
- Transplant Kids
- Offering information for children about organ transplants, aimed especially at children directly affected by transplant issues. Includes success stories, message board and explanations of procedures.
- Y Heart
- British Heart Foundation's youth site presents information on keeping your heart healthy, with games and downloads.
- Young Bloods
- Contains information and advice for children and teens coping with haemophilia, von Willebrand's disorder and other bleeding disorders. Split into two age groups; also contains games.
- Youth Health Talk
- Presents interviews and video clips of children, teenagers and young people talking about their experiences of a range of health issues, including epilepsy, teenager cancer and sexual health.
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