Together achieving better decisions and brighter futures for Manchester families of children and young people aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Manchester Adult Social Care’s Autism Board is looking for a Joint Chairperson who can help support the development and culture change of adult social care for autistic people. We want a co-chair who is autistic and who is able to deliver the requirements listed below.
Manchester City Council's Local Offer team recently shared with us this youth voice opportunity from the National Children's Bureau (NCB) - the Young Research Advisors (YRA) Group! Who are the Young Research Advisors? The YRAs are a research advisory group that meet regularly to: Advise
Fully Booked! This group for the summer term is now full and they are currently not accepting new participants. We will post an announcement and the SCS-LDA team will add info on their padlet when future Creative Arts Groups become available. The CAMHS
Our friends from Dare 2 b Different are back and they would like to invite everyone to their coffee mornings and Stay & Play sessions for the summer term, all of which will be held at Longsight Library. Here's a heartfelt message from Rehena,
We are conscious that there are a lot of questions in the SEND Reform consultation and not everyone will have the time and energy to answer them all. The good news is, you don’t need to answer them all! The consultation questions are not
Back in February, the Government published the Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving”. Together with this, the Department for Education published a SEND Reform consultation that closes on the 18th of May 2026. We are in the process of formulating our forum
Update (11 May 2026): Due to high demand, Dingley's Promise has added another session for the 13th of May, 12 to 1pm. The session on the 12th is now fully booked, and there are only a few places left for the 13 May (6-7pm)
The young people’s mental health charity, 42nd Street, will soon be hosting some workshops to collect feedback from young people, their parents/carers and family members around transitioning between child and adult health services. The workshops are open to anyone aged 16-25 in Greater Manchester
The University of Manchester (UoM) is undertaking a research study entitled “What we want: How can Speech & Language Therapy best meet the needs of autistic children?”, with which they want to find out what priorities and preferences autistic children have for the speech
The University of Manchester is undertaking a research study entitled “Exploring Patient and Carer Perspectives on Appointment Reminders in Healthcare Settings”, with which they want to find out what helps people get to their appointments and what makes it harder. Most research has looked
