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People with Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) will avoid demands made by others, due to their high anxiety levels when they feel that they are not in control. PDA is increasingly recognised as part of the autism spectrum.

Home based pre-school education for children with developmental delay, disabilities or any other special educational needs. Portage home visitors work in partnership with parents, helping parents to help their child through learning activities within the home. is a pre school home teaching service for children with additional needs aged 0-3 unless child is not accessing Early Years provision

This is the website for anyone looking for affordable housing to rent in Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, Runcorn and Widnes. Merseyside housing providers list their properties for rent here each week, giving you the chance to find your preferred home with a variety of houses, bungalows, flats, apartments and sheltered accommodation of various sizes from one, two, three, four and five bedrooms to choose from.

is based within the £1.2 million multi-function building The Prescot Centre alongside Prescot Library.

Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK. In 2014, 597 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 took their own lives. Under the age of 35, the number rose to 1,556. That equates to over four per day. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling.

12 week developmental programme for 16-25 year olds

This helpline is for those aged between 13 and 20 years old and can help with anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and the specific anxieties that young people of this age can experience.

Support, advice and training for schools, organisations and families for autistic spectrum/related conditions

Women’s turnaround is a service just for women and offers individual and group work to support adult female offenders and women at risk of offending in Liverpool and Knowsley.

Seema PowerPoint and Workbooks

An independent day & residential school in Ormskirk, for pupils between 5-19 years with speech, language and social communication difficulties.

Support groups and programmes for all carers including Young Carers

Every young person should have the chance to succeed.

Looking for useful documents or forms? Do you need support around The Team Around the Family (TAF) is a model of service provision where a range of different practitioners come together to help and support a child or young person. Essentially it is a ‘virtual’ team of involved professionals brought together – with the family’s consent – to devise a plan of action to support the child and their family. The plan of action is based on needs identified using the Early Help Assessment Form. 's and/or Early Help Assessments?

Personal Independence Payment ( This is a new benefit replacing DLA for those over 16.  Personal Independence Payment helps with some of the extra costs caused by long-term ill-health or a disability. ) helps with some of the extra costs caused by long-term ill-health or a disability if you’re aged 16 to 64.

Services that can help with Parenting Skills, Child Behaviour or Exploitation, Domestic Violence or family relationships breakdown

Home based pre-school education for children with developmental delay, disabilities or any other special educational needs. Portage home visitors work in partnership with parents, helping parents to help their child through learning activities within the home. is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with additional support needs and their families.

The NNPCF membership is made up of Parent Carer Forums of which there is one in almost every local authority area in England.

The key point of the service is support individuals with behaviours which challenge

PALS provide advice and support to patients and families around all aspects of hospital care.

Calendar of activities for children/young people and adults with Special Educational Needs &D

Link to the Knowsley Providers Online Portal

The Preparing for Adulthood programme (PfA) is funded by the Department for Education as part of the delivery support for the Special Educational Needs and disability reforms.

Starting school is an exciting time for young children and their parents. It can be a daunting time, too. But with a little preparation and encouragement, most children will settle in easily at school.

A Personal Budget is an allocation of money available to you from Knowsley Council sufficient to meet your assessed social care and/or health needs.

Parent Zone is devoted to providing expert information to families and schools. We find, curate and check the best available information on all of the issues that are caused or amplified by the internet.

Up-to-the minute calendar of events and activities happening across Knowsley and the surrounding areas for children, young people and families

A non-maintained Specialist School & College in Southport for children and young people aged 5-19 with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition.