Support for Parents

Please find below links to groups and services that you might find useful.

School Nursing Service – https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health/school-nursing

The School Nursing Team support pupils attending our school. They can be contacted via the Health Business Centre.

Tel 0345 607 8866

Email childrenshealth@suffolk.gov.uk

The School Nursing service offer assessment and support with promoting children and young people’s continence skills in partnership with the enuresis service. This may include helping with coordination of continence product deliveries where these are offered. Please contact the Health Business Centre on 0345607 8866 with any questions about continence product provision or to request any changes and we will be in contact to discuss.

Young people over the age of 18yrs are supported by the adult Bladder & Bowel Service and receive products from Tena. The Bladder & Bowel service are contactable via the Care Coordination Centre on 0300 123 24 25

The School Nursing texting service ‘ChatHealth’ is also available for young people (or parents/carers) on 07507 333356. Texts are charged at your standard network rate. The service is available Monday to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm, excluding bank holidays.

The School Nursing website also has information available about the service offered to children and young people.
https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health/school-nursing/

Useful Link – Support for Toilet Training

Happy Days Children’s Charity – www.happydayscharity.org

The Happy Days Children’s Charity works with local communities right across the UK to provide vital respite breaks for individuals, families and groups who support children with additional needs. This is open to those with learning difficulties, physical or mental disabilities and with acute, chronic or life limiting illnesses. Age range is from 3 to 17.

They have funding available for family respite holidays. These breaks are usually for 3 – 4 nights and are located in the UK.

If you click on this link above and this should take you to the main web site. Near the top of the page is: ‘APPLY FOR FUNDING’. Click on this text and you will see a new page and in the middle column: Family Respite Breaks. There you will find the application form, a contact name and telephone number.

Cerebra – w3.cerebra.org.uk/help-and-information/library/

They have a popular postal lending library of books on topics relating to neurological conditions, media (DVDs) and sensory equipment, such as fibre optics and the ever popular Sensory in a Suitcase, which contains a range of equipment to stimulate all the senses.

Anyone in the UK, (including NI), can borrow items from the library and it’s free to return them by using their freepost address for books or a courier service that they can arrange for you for the sensory equipment. You can borrow two books at a time and one sensory item for a month at a time.

Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children – www.newlifecharity.co.uk

Newlife is the largest national children’s charity that provides free disability equipment to families, as well as funding research into inborn conditions. We can provide everyday essential equipment to any disabled or life limited child under the age of 19, who is in need. There is no limit on what we will spend, and we do not means test, as we believe that every child should have the right piece of equipment at the right time.

Newlife can help children that may have been previously refused help, or perhaps the equipment they need is not available in their area, or if the healthcare professional has recommended a piece of equipment that isn’t supplied by Statutory Services. Through our grant and loan schemes, Newlife can provide wheelchairs, car seats, buggies, communication aids, beds, cots, seats and many other items. We also have numerous new and exciting services to offer families with disabled or life limited children, such as our Play Therapy Pods, a sensory toy loan suite.

Threadworm information

If you are concerned about threadworms or suspect that your child has threadworms there is an information leaflet for parents available here and you can find out more information on threadworms on the websites below: