Useful Links

Gloucestershire County Council website links:

• Children and Families - care, education and support available to children and their families

• Special Educational Needs - support for pre-school and school-age children and young people with special educational needs

• Family Information Service - offers a wide range of information for families.

• Gloucestershire Children and Young People’s Service Directory - a source of a wide range of information
  

Other links:

• GUIDE provide a free and confidential health, social care and disability information service

• Stroud Autistic Society

• Music Space - providing a community-based music therapy service for children and adults in Bristol and  surrounding area

• Special Needs Direct - educational needs information and resources

• Gloucestershire’s Children and Young People’s Service Directory

• The National Autistic Society

• The Downs Syndrome Organisation UK

• The Fragile X Society UK

• BBC’s CBeebies Mr Tumbles Something Special fun stuff for Early Years/Primary children

• Symbol resources from Writing with Symbols

• Information about TEACCH written by its founders

• Website of UK division of PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

• Gloucestershire Total Communication

• US website for PECS (appears to have more info than UK site)

• Contact a Family - a UK charity providing support, advise and info for families with disabled children

• NCB Council for Disabled Children - provides a national forum for discussion relating to support for SEC

• Dept for Children, Schools and Families - infomation including government guidance and strategy

• Dept of Health - information about strategy, policy, guidance and publications

• Direct Gov - information about public services all in one place.  DLA and Carers Allowance forms to download

• Disability Rights Commission - advice to disabled people, employers and service providers

• Every Child Matters - a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to 19

• Every Disabled Child Matters - rights and justice for every disabled child

• In Control - information on self-directed support and personal budgets

• Learning Disability Helpline

• Mencap - provide a range of information and support for people with learning disabilities and their families

• Parent Partnership Network - an infomation and advice service for parents or young people

• Royal National Institute for the Blind

• Royal National Institute for the Deaf

• Scope - provides information and advice about cerebral palsy

• Valuing People - a support team website, including information and resources to download and useful links

• The Key -  with useful links for families in Gloucester

• National Association of Family Information Services

• Bettridge School - Gloucestershire Special School for children aged 2-19

• Belmont School - a special school for boys and girls with moderate learning difficulties and additional special educational needs, based in Gloucestershire.

• Milestone - the school provides for approximately 280 children with a wide range of special educational needs, based in Gloucestershire

• Alderman Knight School - a special school for children aged 4 to 16 with moderate and additional learning difficulties, complex needs and Autistic Spectrum Disorders [ASD]

• James Hopkins Trust - a charity which provides practical help for severely disabled, life threatened and life limited young children with nursing needs, aged 5 yrs and under, living in Gloucestershire.

• Hop Skip and Jump Centre - a play and support Centre for children with a life threatening illness, or special needs, and their families.