Useful Links & Phone Numbers
These are some websites, phone numbers and e-mail addresses that you might find useful:
Norfolk County Council - www.schools.norfolk.gov.uk
SEND - A one-stop website for all of the information that you need about special needs or disability (SEND) in Norfolk http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/send
Gingerbread - support for single parents and equal families - www.gingerbread.org.uk
Child Bereavement Trust - www.childbereavement.org.uk
Norfolk Parent Partnership - support for children with statements - www.norfolkparentpartnership.org.uk
ASD Family Support Group - asdhelpinghands@gmail.com
ASD parent to parent - Freephone 0800 9520520 - parentoparent@nas.org.uk
Norfolk School Transport Team - 01603 224352
Norfolk School Attendance Team - 0344 800 8020
CWD (Children With Disabilities) Access Team - 01603 714185
Scope - (Independent support service) Assistance with EHCP process - Free Helpline: 0808 800 3333
Family Fund - Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. - https://www.familyfund.org.uk/
Sesame Street Autism Resources for Parents - http://autism.sesamestreet.org/
Purple Mash - Student Activities - http://www.purplemash.co.uk/sch/churchillpark
The Autistic Society - https://www.autism.org.uk/
Other Sources of useful information
Help loved ones with Sensory Overload to enjoy a shopping experience -
http://www.retailmenot.com/blog/sensory-overload-while-shopping.html
Supporting Anxiety in Children and Young People
General Mental Health Resources
The Mind: A User's Guide: Editor Raj Persaud, Bantam Press, 2007.
The Young Mind: An essential guide to mental health for young adults, parents and
teachers, Bantam Press, 2009.
Anxiety – Useful Websites
www.stressandanxietyinteenagers.co.uk
Relaxation – Useful Websites
A quick relaxation technique – lots of talk but the technique works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI3sVuH7rms&feature=related
A progressive relaxation video, works from the toes upwards and is demonstrated in a chair:
This is a link to an Australian study on effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for anxiety in children and adolescents. Overall findings are that relaxation techniques help with short-term anxiety:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/188_06_170308/par11060_fm.html
Recommended reading
Carr, A. (ed.) (2000) 'What Works with Children and Adolescents?' - A Critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families.
London: Brunner-Routledge.
Rutter, M. & Taylor, E. (eds) (2002) 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' (4th edn). London: Blackwell.
Scott, A., Shaw, M. & Joughin, C. (eds) (2001) 'Finding the Evidence' - A Gateway to the Literature in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2nd edn). London: Gaskell.
Sources of further information
'Changing Minds: Mental Health: What it is, What to do, Where to go?' A multi-media CD-ROM on mental health.
ChildLine provides a free and confidential telephone service for children. Helpline: 0800 1111.
The Samaritans provide a 24-hour service offering confidential emotional support to anyone who is in crisis. Helpline: 08457 909090 E-mail: jo@samaritans.org
YoungMinds (https://youngminds.org.uk/) provides information and advice on child mental health issues. They also have a YoungMinds Parents Helpline on 0808 802 5544. The opening hours are 9.30am-4pm Monday to Friday . Calls from landlines and most mobiles (3, O2, Orange, T-mobile, Virgin and Vodafone) are free, or email parents@youngminds.org.uk.
Updated Ebola Information from Department for Education
Advice for parents/guardians:
Parents/guardians should not be unduly worried about the possibility of their children catching the Ebola Virus.
Any person arriving in the UK having travelled from any Ebola affected countries will be screened. If they are free of symptoms they are not infectious so there should be no restrictions on their school attendance or normal activities.
It is not possible to catch Ebola from a person who is not showing signs of being infected. It can only be caught by direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a person who is ill with the disease.
There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend school or their early years setting as normal.
Further information on the Government's response to the Ebola virus can be found on GOV.UK.
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