Action for Children
Parenting support, fostering, adopting charity, Disabled children.
How can they help?
They provide information for parents, focused on children.
They provide information for parents, focused on children.
Parent Carer Resources
This page contains a wide range of groups, organisations, individuals and more that can offer help to parent carers in need.
If there are groups, organisations, individuals etc that we’ve missed, please use the form at the bottom of this page and let us know. Just give us the link and we’ll do the rest!
Additude
ADHD resources website – News, tests, parenting, children & Adults.
How can they help?
They are an ADHD resources website – News, tests, parenting, children & Adults.
They are an ADHD resources website – News, tests, parenting, children & Adults.
Anna Freud, Mentally Healthy Schools
Mentally Healthy Schools is a free website for UK primary and secondary schools and further education settings, offering school staff information, advice and practical resources to better understand and promote pupils’ mental health and wellbeing.
How can they help?
If you want to read up on resources used by some schools.
If you want to read up on resources used by some schools.
ARFID Service
Services for children / young people with ARFID. Note that referral to this team is by other professionals only.
How can they help?
To find out who your GP might want to refer your child to, for example.
To find out who your GP might want to refer your child to, for example.
Aucademy
Educators of Autistic Experience.
How can they help?
Looking for education specifically focused on autism by autistic people.
Looking for education specifically focused on autism by autistic people.
BiLD
Championing the human rights of people with disabilities ever since 1971.
How can they help?
They provide information for workplace support for disabilities.
They provide information for workplace support for disabilities.
CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health team as part of Cornwall Integrated Care Board.
How can they help?
To find out what services are available for children and young people who need mental health support.
To find out what services are available for children and young people who need mental health support.
Children’s Rights Awareness
Support, information and advice. Working to improve the social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in Cornwall.
How can they help?
This is an interesting resource.
This is an interesting resource.
Contact
Support for Families, Parent Carer Forum delivery partner, Policy, Training.
How can they help?
They provide Information, Advice and Support for parents, free helpline, Listening Ear support service, parent guides.
They provide Information, Advice and Support for parents, free helpline, Listening Ear support service, parent guides.
Cornwall Accessible Activities Programme
CAAP is a charity formed by a group of parents of children with additional needs, to support families to access activities during school holidays.
How can they help?
To support parents of children with additional needs to access activities in the school holidays.
To support parents of children with additional needs to access activities in the school holidays.
Cornwall Council SEND Team – LA
Local authority SEND services.
How can they help?
They are the local authority SEND Team – go here for information about what services are available.
They are the local authority SEND Team – go here for information about what services are available.
Cornwall RCC
An organisation dedicated to supporting and strengthening Cornwall’s Communities to improve quality of life, delivering a programme for young people aged 16 – 24 with an EHCP.
How can they help?
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Cornwall Rural Community Charity
An organisation dedicated to supporting and strengthening Cornwall’s Communities to improve quality of life.
How can they help?
They provide a range of high-quality support services for unpaid carers throughout Cornwall.
They provide a range of high-quality support services for unpaid carers throughout Cornwall.
Council for Disabled Children
Umbrella for Disabled Children’s sector of professionals, practitioners and policy-makers.
How can they help?
They provide guides and up to date information on National Policies.
They provide guides and up to date information on National Policies.
Early Help Hub – LA
The Local Authority Early Help – led by Cornwall Council and Cornwall Foundation Trust.
How can they help?
Requests for help can be submitted and a parent directed potentially to the right help or service.
Requests for help can be submitted and a parent directed potentially to the right help or service.
Genius Armoury
Genius Armoury offers a range of courses to help introduce people to cybersecurity, exploring some of the fundamentals of coding, threats and exploits, networking and more.
How can they help?
They have courses specifically designed for neurodivergent individuals.
They have courses specifically designed for neurodivergent individuals.
GROVE
Small weekly online groups are just for fun themed on shared interests. Everyone is Autistic including the Mentors. Mentors are fairly paid for their work so the groups are not free but they do heavily discount for parents self-funding and offer at least one ‘Pay What You Can Space’ per group as well.
How can they help?
Autistic run space for young people and adults to have a neuroaffirming community.
Autistic run space for young people and adults to have a neuroaffirming community.
Headstart Kernow
Working to improve the social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in Cornwall.
How can they help?
Training & Events, online information for parents/carers, children & young people.
Training & Events, online information for parents/carers, children & young people.
IPSEA
A charity expert in the field of SEND law in England. Help to navigate the SEND system and secure the education your child is legally entitled to – find out how we can support you.
How can they help?
They provide Online legal guides, Email information service, Telephone helplines, Tribunal support service.
They provide Online legal guides, Email information service, Telephone helplines, Tribunal support service.
MHST – Mental Health Support Team
The Mental Health Support Team in Schools has been introduced as part of a national project to support children, young people and their families within education settings. Working in primary schools in Cornwall we provide short term, low-intensity mental health interventions and support. We may work directly with the parent/carer or the young person, depending on the support needed.
How can they help?
They provide mental health support in schools with trained Educational Mental Health Practitioners offering interventions for children and families.
They provide mental health support in schools with trained Educational Mental Health Practitioners offering interventions for children and families.
National Autistic Society
We are here to transform lives and change attitudes to help create a society that works for autistic people.
How can they help?
To find advice and guidance and support around being an autistic parent or parenting/caring for autistic children.
To find advice and guidance and support around being an autistic parent or parenting/caring for autistic children.
Neurodiversity Hub
Changing the narrative about autism and neurodiversity through awareness, education and engagement.
How can they help?
They provide resources to assist primary & secondary students and young adults to get through their school, university and college studies, obtain a job and start a career. There are resources for autistic students and young adults, parents and carers and many more.
They provide resources to assist primary & secondary students and young adults to get through their school, university and college studies, obtain a job and start a career. There are resources for autistic students and young adults, parents and carers and many more.
NHS
Speech and language therapists who work with children and young people in Cornwall.
How can they help?
Looking for information about Speech and Language Therapy.
Looking for information about Speech and Language Therapy.
Parent Carers Cornwall​
Parent Carers Cornwall is a parent carer led not for profit Community Interest Company providing advice and support to parent carers of children and young people with SEND.
How can they help?
They organise coffee and chat sessions/information events/workshops and activities for parent carers around Cornwall. They provide information, links and support around the Neurodiversity Profiling Tool.
They organise coffee and chat sessions/information events/workshops and activities for parent carers around Cornwall. They provide information, links and support around the Neurodiversity Profiling Tool.
PEACE – Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience
PEACE is a Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience. We hope this pathway will support autistic people suffering with an eating disorder, their loved ones and their clinicians.
How can they help?
To find support, community and advice for caring for an autistic young person with an eating disorder.
To find support, community and advice for caring for an autistic young person with an eating disorder.
SENDA
SENDA is the UK Alliance of Special Educational Needs and Disability Advisers. A forum for excellence in the provision of advice to families of the disabled.
How can they help?
They provide information and advice on legal and financial matters – all SEND specialist!
They provide information and advice on legal and financial matters – all SEND specialist!
SENDIASS
Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service – Advice and support for Parent Carers and Young People.
How can they help?
They provide someone impartial to talk to in confidence, information and support on a one-to-one basis, information about support groups and services in your area, the Local Offer, Personal Budgets, a straightforward explanation of educational procedures, information on special educational needs and disability, health and social care, help to fill in forms related to SEN, and someone to help you put forward your views.
They provide someone impartial to talk to in confidence, information and support on a one-to-one basis, information about support groups and services in your area, the Local Offer, Personal Budgets, a straightforward explanation of educational procedures, information on special educational needs and disability, health and social care, help to fill in forms related to SEN, and someone to help you put forward your views.
Special Needs Jungle
Special Needs Jungle – SEN, Disability, Health Conditions, Rare Disease.
How can they help?
They provide resources & informed opinion about children & young people 0-25.
They provide resources & informed opinion about children & young people 0-25.
The Autistic Community of Cornwall
A group of and for Autistic people in Cornwall, who run gatherings, a Navigator Programme, Trainings and provides Resources.
How can they help?
To find information on or about being an Autistic person in Cornwall.
To find information on or about being an Autistic person in Cornwall.
Tigger Pritchard
Awesomely Neurodivergent and an Autistic and PDA Advocate, Consultant and Trainer based in the Southwest of England. Also involved in Autistic Community of Cornwall, Aucademy.
How can they help?
Consultancy, guides, resources, podcasts.
Consultancy, guides, resources, podcasts.