For children with additional needs a new online service has gone live this week, developed by our health colleagues to support families waiting for specialist assessments. The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) online course helps families to understand the messages their child is trying to communicate and offers some practical skills and strategies that can be used to help manage behaviours that challenge.

The PBS video sessions, normally available through face to face workshops for families of children awaiting assessments by specialist teams, have been produced during the Covid-19 outbreak to offer support to all families.

Parents can access any or all six video sessions at times convenient to them at https://www.justonenorfolk.nhs.uk/pbs.

If you are looking for any support or guidance with a pre-school age child that may have additional needs there is a free service that you can access 🙂  Please click on the link below to find out more.

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A new-look SEND Bulletin from Norfolk County Council is full of updates on what’s happening in SEND in Norfolk

https://www.sensationalfamilies.org.uk/articles/71-welcome-to-the-norfolk-send-bulletin

This website is for anyone in the life of a child or young person aged 0-25 who has a special educational need and/or disability (SEND) in Norfolk.  

The website can help you:

• Find information on support in education 
• Learn about special needs services that can help children, young people and their families
• Find a support network – parents, groups and organisations
• Get guidance and advice about how to help a young person plan their adult life

https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/children-and-families/send-local-offer

Click on link below to find out more!!!! 🙂

Dads Matter Postcard

Let’s talk… about new specialist provision in Norfolk Wednesday 19 May 2021 10:00am–12:00pm via zoom

With Nicki Rider, Interim Head of Education High Needs SEND Service

New schools and provision

Placement decisions

Other developments

Email events@familyvoice.org.uk for full booking and joining
instructions.

A free course called Dads matter is available for you to participate in

What is the course like?

• It gets dads talking to each other
• It runs for 12 weeks and each weekly session is two hours long
• The sessions are run by two male Dads Matter Facilitators who are experienced in leading group work
• The course is held in the evening and afternoons in different venues across Norfolk

What will we cover?

• We will look at many aspects of child development to understand why children behave as they do – from the terrible twos to troubled teens
• We will use practical tools and explore techniques such as mindfulness to help us manage our own and our children’s behaviour and emotions
• Each week there will be opportunities to reflect and share our experiences with the group and get support from other dads

To find out more and register click on the link below:

https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/what-we-do-and-how-we-work/campaigns/dads-matter/what-is-dads-matter

Coffee morning  Tuesday 2nd February 10-11am

You may be home schooling, working from home,
on the front line, caring for wider family …
or juggling any number of these.
If you can, why not just pause for a coffee and a chat
with other parent carers who understand?
Just drop in at the link below. You’re always welcome.

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Lots of articles on a range of Special Educational Needs and Disability areas to have a look at.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh9v382