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Support to help your child attend school
All parents, carers and schools want children to learn and be happy. However, all children are different and have different needs to enable them to reach their full potential. If your child is having difficulties attending school, then it is important that you as their…Local Offer Helpline
The Local Offer aims to provide information about support services and opportunities for children and young people with SEND all in one place. Do you have a question about Suffolk's Local Offer? Need help finding information or want to discuss what services are available? You…Education, Health and Care Plan Provision: raising concerns about delivery
What to do when you are concerned that you or your child is not receiving the special educational needs provision that is written in their Education Health and Care plan. Special Educational Provision in Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan The local authority (“LA”) has…How adult social care can help
Adult social care in Suffolk, care and support assessments, housing support, care homes, advocacy, DoLS, moving from children's services and how to contact us. Advocacy Find out what advocacy means and how to get advocacy for yourself or someone you look after. Care and support…Activities Unlimited Service Redesign
March 2020 When we opened our Short Break Service in 2009 we had around 350 members. Eleven years later we now have over 5,000 children and young people registered with us from across Suffolk, nearly 2000 of whom receive a financial award. We are proud…Activities Unlimited appendices
A list of useful documents for managing your Short Break Personal Budget. AU Personal Budget Leaflet AU Spending Guidelines AU Spending Record Template AU Excess Funds Policy AU Know Your Customer Policy AU Debt Recovery Policy Short Break Personal Budget Pro Rata Amounts Short Break…Behaviour Safe At Home
Behaviour Safe At Home supports parents, carers and family members living with children who display extreme behaviours, to improve the safety of everyone. The focus of the programme is on early intervention, to help prevent the behaviour escalating and to reduce the need for restrictive interventions.…Activities Unlimited Short Breaks Personal Budgets - Appeals Process
April 2023: Please note that due to exceptionally high demand, appeals are currently taking longer to process than our published timescales. We will start hearing appeals in May 2023 - we apologise for this delay and would like to assure families that we are working…Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Service
The Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Service is part of the Specialist Education Service. What we do Children and young people with additional social, emotional and mental health needs may struggle to access or engage with learning. We work with mainstream schools to help them…Activities Unlimited Services Grants for Children with SEND And Young Carers 2024/25
We are now inviting new applications for the funding of Short Break and Young Carers/Siblings activities for the 2024/25 financial year. This year has seen the introduction of a small grant application form for proposals up to £3,000 and the full grant application for proposals…