We were happy to have the ‘Skills for Life’ ladies back in school to host our parents coffee morning last Tuesday.
Another busy and productive coffee morning with the Pass it on Parents ladies – doing their fabulous stuff!
These relaxed coffee mornings are once a month in school and the next date is Tuesday 1st March. They run from 10-30am – 12pm and are held in the music studio in the Rebound Therapy Centre.
Pass it on Parents run support groups in many locations around the North East :
Our Families Advice and Support Team offers information, advice and support for families of disabled children in Newcastle. The team can help you with problems, and help you apply for funding. They can let you know about activities and services for your child and your family.
Pass it on Parents Newcastle is a parents group that supports families with children who have additional needs living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. We are part of the Family Advice and Support Team based at Skills for People,
Our Pass it on Parents peer support team, reaches around 1600 family carers through its Facebook group. We strongly believe in the value of parent to parent support, and would like to help other parents by sharing experience and knowledge at one of our drop-in sessions or coffee mornings. Come along and find out some useful information that may help you or your family.
It was wonderful to have parents back in school for the ‘Pass it on Parents’ coffee morning, it has been such a long time since we could all be together. The coffee mornings run monthly and all parents are welcome; its a great place for a catch up, coffee, support and great advice.
The team provides information and advice on a range of issues, from helping you to navigate your way around the Local Offer, connecting you with other services, to offering advice on a range of specific issues such as transport, holidays, activities and planning for adulthood.
We can offer practical information and advice, appropriate to individual circumstances and we work across all agencies such as education, social care, health, benefits, leisure and voluntary services.
We can support you in meetings in school and help with Parental Views in the Education Health & Care Plan Assessment process. Our Information Advice and Guidance service will work with you to see if you need more in depth support such as supporting you at Early Help meetings.
We are happy to be having the coffee mornings back in the school building! It will now be held in music studio in the rebound centre.
George at ASDA has become the first supermarket to release a range of school wear for children with specific or sensory-sensitive needs.
The new clothing range called ‘Easy On Easy Wear’ is designed to help children who may find traditional school uniform overwhelming or difficult due to needs such as autism. ASDA have said that they have done extensive research with customers and charities to make the clothing range as suitable as possible for a wide range of children.
During their research it was found that 9 in 10 parents of children with specific needs said that they get ‘upset or distressed’ when trying to either dress their children or watch them do so themselves. The research also found that because most school uniform is designed for neuro-typical children, there are design elements such as hard to do up buttons, tight necklines and non-elasticated cuffs that make things extremely difficult for some children, especially those with autism.
The new range has been made to look the same as other items that children would wear at school but to have design features that make getting dressed in the morning as stress free and calm for parents and children as possible. The items have buttons with easy close fastenings, softer thread on seams, elasticated waist bands and care information printed directly on the items rather than on a label.
Fantastic! This will make such a difference to so many children’s lives.
