Thank you very much to the School to School Service (formally Learning Support Service), Sheffield, for allowing us to add some of their extremely helpful information sheets to our website.  You can download each information sheet by clicking on the titles at the bottom of this page.  

USEFUL WEBSITES

The following sites have useful information about a range of Special Educational Needs issues, and we also have books in school that you are welcome to borrow.

www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/information-for-parentscarers

Follow the link for Special Educational Needs.

In this area, there is lots of useful information about things such as definitions, different types of Special Educational Needs, EHCPs, Assessment, the SEN Code of Practice, and the Parent Partnership.

http://www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/our-services/child-disability-register.htm

This is the Sheffield INDEX of Children and Young People with Disabilities. Parents and carers can enrol their child onto the INDEX, and receive details of all the services you and your child can access across Sheffield, plus regular copies of “What’s Going On” newsletter.

http://sheffieldparentcarerforum.org.uk/

An independent group bringing together the parents of children and young people with a wide range of disabilities.

http://www.youngminds.org.uk/

Information and a helpline about emotional and behavioural issues and mental health.

http://www.sheffielddirectory.org.uk/kb5/sheffield/directory/localoffer.page?localofferchannel=4

The Sheffield Directory – this link should take you to a list of types of SEND or issues, with fact sheets and information about help groups etc.