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)
Bookings for the December cinema session will open at 6pm on Wednesday, 22 November. Please book your family's places through our Eventbrite page. In the meantime, you can vote for the movie that we will show by answering our SurveyMonkey poll. The survey will close
It's been a month since this year's National Co-production Week so we thought we'd take this opportunity to finally publish the well-articulated blog that Julie Hicklin, Manchester's SEND Lead, wrote about the Autism in Schools project. (Apologies for the delay!) Here it goes: Autism
We recently hosted two focus group sessions for Manchester City Council's post-16 commissioning team to listen to the views of parents and carers around post-16 education and training, including their journey beyond college: Preparing for Adulthood. We are very grateful to all the parents
Hello, everyone! :) We have luckily been gifted a free ticket to Catalyst Psychology's "Inclusion Matters" conference, which will be happening on the 23rd of June, 9am to 5pm, at The Monastery Manchester. The "Inclusion Matters" conference is an annual opportunity for school staff,
Jennie Corkwood, our Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) here in Manchester, recently wrote us a journal entry showing how a particular working day looked like for her back in March. The DCO role is not something that many parents and carers are familiar with so
Our poll for families to vote for the movie that we will show on the 17th and 26th of August is now open! Please visit https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/relaxed-cinema-summer2023 to choose your preferred movie(s) and/or make your own suggestion. The poll will close on Wednesday, 12 July,
The Early Years Social Communication Pathway (EY SCP) introduces a new team assessing for autism in Early Years children (aged up to 5 years) in South Manchester. It is a pilot project with an aim to find child-friendly efficient ways to complete the assessment and
There is a new job opening in Manchester for an Autism Navigator role - and people with lived experience of autism and/or neurodivergence are strongly urged to apply! The Autism Navigator will support families and young people who are currently on the waiting list for
With the Easter holidays fully under way, many families of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) will be hard-pressed to find activities that suit their children's individual needs, let alone that of the whole family. Luckily, we have a robust
You may have recently seen news about a new specialist secondary school that is being planned to be built in East/North Manchester over the next year. The proposal is for the new secondary specialist school to be built on land off Sawley Road in Miles
