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Information and Advice
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Common concerns
- I need help with my child
- Who can I speak with?
- Jargon Buster (A-Z)
- What are Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)?
- What to do if you think your child has Special Educational Needs (support from schools)
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments explained
- Sleep problems
- School refusal and anxiety
- What if you are worried about a child?
- Letting people know you may need help (including the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower scheme)
- Making choices when you have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - The Mental Capacity Act
- COVID-19 and SEND
- Additional needs register
- What about adults with learning disabilities and special needs?
- What about other Local Authorities?
- Bullying
- How to deal with meltdowns
- Helping young people with SEND stay safe online
Help for families
- Care for adults with additional needs (Shared Lives)
- Moving from children's to adult social care
- Getting social care support as an adult
- The Early Support Service
- Children with a Disability Service (CWD)
- Children with a Disability Service eligibility criteria
- Short Breaks
- Community Plus
- Kirklees Youth Justice Service
- Home Start
General Health information
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- Find a GP
- Easy Health - Easy read resources
- Helping people with SEND be healthy & active - guidance for parents/carers
- Find a hospital
- Health visiting and school nursing
- Sexual health
- Children Development Centre's (CDC)
- Adaptions to your home
- Dental care for young people with SEND
- Chat Health
- Safer Moving and Handling Advice for Parents and Carers
- Moving from children's to adult health services
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- Annual health checks and staying healthy
- Dietician (for children, young people and adults)
- Community nursing
- Hospital passports and help at hospitals
- Wheelchair services
- Toileting
- Children's Epilepsy Team
- Children's therapy services overview (SALT, OT and Physio)
- Speech & Language Therapy (SALT)
- Children's Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Children's Physiotherapy
- Sensory Occupational Therapy
- Adults therapy team - Speech and Language, Physio, Occupational Therapy
- Continuing Health Care
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health information
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- Young peoples and adults mental health
- Mental Health Apps
- Young minds
- Self-harm
- Thriving Kirklees Parents - free online courses
- My Mental Health Passport (MyMHP)
- Northorpe Hall mental health and wellbeing workshops
- Mental Health support in a crisis
- How to talk to your children about their feelings and spotting the early signs
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Autism, ADHD and Learning Disability (LD) Health information
Education
- Transitions - moving between schools
- COVID 19 Catch up funding
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- How children get the help they need in school
- Outreach from specialist support services
- What support every pupil should receive (Quality First Teaching)
- What does a SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator) do?
- IEP's ANP's, provision maps and My support plans (MSP's)
- Educational Psychology (EP) Service
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- Applying for a school place for a child with special needs
- Types of educational settings
- Special Educational settings (inc Outreach and Specialist Provisions)
- Schools search
- Independent educational settings outside of Kirklees (Section 41 Approved Schools and Natspec)
- Mainstream colleges and training providers
- Transfering from college to Higher Education & getting support (including DSA)
- Changing schools when you have an EHCP (including Change of Phase)
- How schools work together (School hubs)
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- Managed moves to another school
- Fixed and permanent exclusions
- Educating your child or young person with SEND at home (EHE)
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- Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP's)
- FAQs regarding Education, Health & Care Needs assessment timescales November 2021
- Disagreements, tribunals and appeals
- How to apply for an EHCP assessment
- EHCP reviews
- How long does my Education, Health and Care plan last?
- What does "The Legal Test" mean?
- Personal budgets (Education)
- Questions from families about EHCP's
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- FAQ's (Education)
- FAQs regarding Education, Health & Care Needs assessment timescales November 2021
- Kirklees virtual school for children and young people in care
- What does education look like after 16?
Early years & childcare
- 50 Things To Do Before You’re Five
- How to get childcare for a child with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- Free Learning and Childcare for 2, 3-and 4-year-old children
- Identifying and assessing Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in the Early Years
- Special Education Needs and Disability funding (SENDIF, SENDIF+ and DAF)
- Educational Psychology (EP) and Early Years
- Sleep problems in young children
Preparing for Adulthood (PfA)
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- What does preparing for adulthood (PfA) mean?
- Getting support with preparing for adulthood (if you have an EHCP)
- The My Life team - social care support as you grow up
- Parents guide to preparing for adulthood
- Easy read guide to preparing for adulthood
- Preparing for adulthood checklist
- Support for parents
- Helping young people to be independent - The Community Enablement Team
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- Careers information
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- Having a life and being part of society
General information and advice
- KIAS (Kirklees SENDIAS service)
- Support groups and advice
- Advocacy
- Children missing education (and international new arrivals)
- Reduced (part-time) timetables in school
- National association for special educational needs (NASEN)
- Additional needs register
- Complaints and disagreements
- COVID-19 and SEND
- Help with school attendance (Education safeguarding)
Travel, transport and getting out and about
Finance & benefits
- Finance & benefits - overview
- Passes & cards - overview
- Grants you can apply for - overview
- Adult social care financial assessment (means testing)
- Benefits calculator
- Carers Allowance
- Council Tax
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
- Housing Benefit
- Job Seekers Allowance (JSA)
- New style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Tax Credits
- Universal Credit
- Wills and Trusts
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments explained
Information and support for specific conditions
- Acquired brain injuries (ABI)
- ADHD
- Autism
- Autism - videos about everyday situations
- Autism - sex and relationships resources
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Complex communication & interaction difficulties (CCI)
- Down's syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia or DCD
- Epilepsy
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
- Hearing impairment
- Learning disabilities (including PMLD)
- Multi Sensory Impairment (MSI)
- Physical Impairment
- Sensory needs
- Social, emotional & mental health difficulties (SEMH) - including behaviour
- Specific Learning Difficulties (including Dyslexia and Dyspraxia)
- Tourette's
- Visual impairment (blindness and sight problems)