Services for Children with Additional Needs and Disabilities
This section gives information about services available for children with additional needs and disabilities and their families, and how the service will be developed in the future.
We will update it regularly with news and information.
More information can be found by following the links below.
- Family Link - a service which provides short breaks to children with disabilities and their families by providing them with a ‘family link’ who will take the child out or who will have the child to stay in their home overnight.
- Breathing Space – a service which provides short breaks to families who have children with disabilities. A worker will either take the child out into the community or will remain in the family home.
- Special Education Needs
- Disabled Children’s Team – The social workers in this team provide an assessment and care management service for children with disabilities.
- Short Breaks – this section explains what a short break is; how they are agreed; and how they will be developed in the future.
- Early Support – Early support is a programme designed to offer better coordinated services for families who have children with complex health needs or a disability.
- Early support places in Children’s Centres – Children with some special or additional needs are eligible for funded part time places in Children’s Centres. This explains the criteria and the process.
For more information about the Government plans to develop services for disabled children look at the Aiming High for Disabled Children section of the Department for children, schools and families (DCSF) website in the external links section below.
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
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results of the consultation with parents or carers .pdf  | 38K | |
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Update MePage Last Updated: 1 March 2010
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