Would your family and friends would like the opportunity for a regular, online, meet up to ask questions, share their worries and share laughter, about becoming part of your children’s lives?
Support for adopters
New Family Social podcast: Adoption, fostering and tea
The UK’s LGBTQ+ adoption and fostering charity, New Family Social add new episodes to its series of podcasts discussing adoption and fostering with people “who’ve done it”:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: FASD Hub South West
FASD Hub South West is a parent-led support group for adoptive parents of children, young people, and adults with or without a formal diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) across the South West of England.
Free Eating disorder online workshops for parents and carers
Funded by the NHS, these online courses offer five free sessions to carers/parents supporting undiagnosed and diagnosed eating disorder needs, using the ‘New Maudsley’ approach.
New resource for supporting sensory needs
Becoming a sensory detective can help you to identify if there is a pattern to your child’s sensory needs, and recognise how they react to sensory information. This resource has a great breakdown of needs, as well as sensory strategies to try in school and at home.
Cornwall Council adoption service to join Adopt South West
Cornwall Council’s adoption service, which also covers the Isles of Scilly, is to join the Regional Adoption Agency, Adopt South West, from April 2024.
How can we support dissociative children and young people?
In the run up to Christmas, FASD Hub South West thought it would be helpful to come away from the tinsel and to link with professionals where we aim to focus on some bitesize techniques to support trauma responses that we might see in schools, and at home, with children and young people. Children and […]
Funding for Sensory Integration Trauma Occupation Therapy
Did you know, Paediatric Sensory Integration Trauma Occupation Therapy strategies can be funded and provided through a school special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) budget, Pupil Premium Plus or education, health and care plan (EHCP) funding?