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Study Insights: Family Wellbeing and Social Support for Autistic Caregivers

I first encountered the word “AUTISM” in 2009 during my undergraduate studies, little did I know then how deeply it would shape the course of my life and career. My name is Anum. I am a SEND teacher and a caregiver to a neurodivergent child

By |2025-10-05T14:17:40+01:00October 5th, 2025|Categories: Get Involved, Parent Sharing|Tags: , , , |

The Impact of the Ordinarily Available Provision Guidance

Manchester has had guidance on Ordinarily Available Provision within schools and settings since 2019. The guidance outlines what should be easily available for children within the SEN Support level in mainstream settings - support, strategies and activities for those with additional needs, regardless of

Feedback Needed: Summer 2025 Family Events

We'd love to hear your feedback about the MPCF summer activity/ies that you attended. This will help us improve future offers as well as report outcomes to stakeholders. Please kindly send one survey response for each MPCF family event that you attended so that

By |2025-09-14T14:33:25+01:00September 14th, 2025|Categories: Get Involved, Parent-Carer Feedback|Tags: , , , |

Get Involved: Name the New GM Autism Centre

Some of you may know that a new building is being developed to house some Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) teams and MPCF together in one building - and we need a name for it! We were originally going to call it the Greater

SEND Local Offer – Have Your Say!

Manchester City Council has asked us to share their short survey (1-3 minutes to complete) about your experience of the SEND Local Offer. Do you live in Manchester City Council area or use SEND services here? If yes, we'd love to hear about your experience

Neurodiversity in Education Logo Design Competition

We are looking for a new logo to use in communications regarding the Neurodiversity in Education (NiE) initiative that's currently running across Greater Manchester! We invite children and young people from Greater Manchester to design a logo that describes or represents the Neurodiversity in

Get Involved: Area SEND Thematic Review (Children Not in School)

We are sharing this Call to Action from the latest Local Offer newsletter (26 February) highlighting the Area SEND thematic review that Manchester will be involved in over the coming weeks. This visit from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) aims to understand

Focus Groups with Science and Industry Museum

The Science and Industry Museum (SIM) is currently upgrading their Power Hall, which is due to reopen in Summer 2025. A much beloved industrial heritage gallery, SIM's Power Hall houses one of the UK's largest collections of working steam engines, with a majority of

By |2025-01-21T17:32:33+00:00January 20th, 2025|Categories: Get Involved|Tags: , |

Manchester City Council Survey: Mainstream Schools and Children with SEND

We have been asked to share this very short survey from Manchester City Council. If you live in the city of Manchester and your child with Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (SEND) goes to a mainstream school, please answer the survey. It only has

Greater Manchester ADHD Public Engagement Exercises

This is a message we received from local partners in Health: NHS Greater Manchester (NHS GM) has launched a public engagement exercise to gather views on children and young people’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) services in Greater Manchester. We want children and young