Childcare Brokerage Service for Parents with a Disabled Child or requiring bespoke childcare

Helping parents and carers to find childcare for children with Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND).

Who can use this service?

• Any parent or carer whose child (0-19 years) has a disability and who would like to access childcare
• Organisations or teams who are working to support families with a disabled child
• Family members who are supporting parents of disabled children.

How can this service help?

• Offering advice and assistance to parents and carers about the types of childcare that are available
• Finding childcare to suit your child's and your family's needs
• Signpost parents to access appropriate sources of funding
• Meeting parents to discuss needs and visit childcare settings with the family
• Informing parents of how services are delivered and how to access them.

What are the benefits to you and your family?

• It will help more disabled children to access childcare and opportunities for early learning
• It will help parents and carers to return to work or study, or to retain their job
• It is tailored to meet individual families' needs
• It will help parents to access services more easily
• Facilitate training for individual settings where child has health needs
• Support to help parents access childcare as a short break.

You can access the service in any of the following ways:

• Phone: 0800 085 2022 or 0151 443 5635 8.30am-5.00pm Monday - Friday (with voicemail for out of hours calls)
• Email: Childcare.information@knowsley.gov.uk
• Fax: 0151 443 5637

The Childcare Information Service provides information, advice and assistance to all families about:

• Finding Childcare
• Paying for Childcare
• Working in Childcare.