SEND Directory

Haringey Works, Haringey Learns, help with the costs of starting work, and help if you have a disability or health condition.

HENRY provides a wide range of support for families from pregnancy to age 12, including workshops, programs, resources, and online help. Their support is based on the HENRY approach to behaviour change. It helps parents gain the confidence, knowledge, and skills needed to create a healthier, happier lifestyle for the whole family and give children a great start in life.

Examples of their support include:

Insight Platform offers free, friendly, and confidential support for young people up to 25 in Haringey who are using or affected by drugs and alcohol.

Help finding work, jobs in schools, jobs with children and young people, working for Haringey.

If you’re aged 19 or over, on a further education course and facing financial hardship, you could get Learner Support. Learner Support can help pay for things you need to attend your course or study that are not covered by your course fees.

Mencap is a UK charity for people with learning disabilities. It supports people with learning disabilities, their families, carers, and professionals with help, advice, education, campaigns, activism, and more.

YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity, fighting for a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health. It provides help and advice for young people, their parents, and professionals working with them.

Help and advice for young people:

• Mental health conditions
• Feelings
• Coping with life
• Supporting a friend
• Medications 
• Guide to getting mental health support

Help and advice for parents:

The Education Hub is a government-run site for parents, pupils, and education professionals that captures all you need to know about the education system.

Mental health resources for children, students, parents, carers and school/college staff:

The Education Hub has organised useful links and sources of mental health support so that children, young people, parents, carers, and school and college staff can get the advice and help they need.

Shout provides free, confidential support 24/7 via text.

Shout is the UK's first free 24/7 texting service for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere. It is available in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Text SHOUT to 85258 in the UK to text with a trained Crisis Volunteer.

Their website also offers a range of online resources and support, including:

• Autism and mental health
• Deafness and mental health
• Bullying and mental health
• Exam results and mental health
• LGBTQ+ and mental health

Good Thinking is an online service that supports Londoners to look after their mental health and wellbeing to tackle anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep problems and other concerns.

Available 24/7 on any device and completely anonymous, Good Thinking provides a range of resources to help Londoners improve their mental wellbeing, including: