Parents and carers
Welcome to the Parents and Carers area of the local offer website.
Here you can access information, advice and guidance for a wide range of services in North East Lincolnshire.
Early Help includes childcare and funding, group sessions and programmes for your child’s development as well as local information, and links to support for both parents and professionals
The Health Visiting service is available to all families in North East Lincolnshire who are expecting a baby, have a new born or a child up to the age of 5
The Access Pathway is the route for children and young people (up to their 18th year), where support has already been accessed and tried, but further multi-disciplinary discussions may be required
- The Special Educational Needs Assessment and Review Team for EHCP’s
- The Specialist Advisory Service. Specialise in Learning and Cognition, Communication and Interaction and in Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs
- SEND Outreach Support Team. For extra support with communication and interaction (Speech and Language or Autistic type difficulties) or Physical disabilities
- The Educational Team for Hearing and Vision (ETHV). To support children and young people who have been diagnosed with hearing and/or vision loss
Providing free, confidential and impartial advice and support to young people and parents/carers of a child in relation to Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) living within North East Lincolnshire
NELPPF is a collective voice for parents and carers in North East Lincolnshire. They offer guidance and support from 0 to 25 years and make sure that parents’ views and experiences influence local services to make things better
We are here to work with Carers to ensure they receive the right support and information at the right time, enabling them to continue looking after members of their family, friends and neighbours
Tell us about your experiences of Health & Social Care Services in North East Lincolnshire
Education, health and care plans
If your child is still not making progress, even with support from school, you can ask us to assess him or her for an EHCP
COVID-19: Who to contact for help
North East Lincolnshire Council are all working closely across the public, community and voluntary sectors to offer advice and support and to get help to people who need it
IPSEA offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
We are trained to find out how learning, development and behaviour can be made better
GOV.UK – SEND guide for parents
A guide on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND)
Helping you to get online and build your digital skills
Kinship | The kinship care charity
We are here for all kinship carers – the grandparents and siblings, the aunts, uncles, and family friends who step up to raise children when their parents aren’t able to
Find the contact details for key services
The education catch-up includes extra tutoring in core subjects, support for 19-24 year olds with SEND and more.
Free summer schools help pupils prepare for the next academic year and make up for learning lost during Covid
NELC SEND Local Offer | COVID-19 guidance and updates
Learning at home and resources for SEND
Setting up home learning on Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, and Zoom. Using a gaming console to connect to the classroom
Special Educational Needs & Disability Sub Hub! | Barnardo’s
Here you will find a range of resources, tools, videos and more for children with special educational needs and disability
Early Help sessions for babies aged six weeks for parents and children support the child’s language, communications, learning and development
Special educational options in our borough and outside of North East Lincolnshire
North East Lincolnshire Council’s general schools and education page. It links to term dates, admissions, exclusions and more
Portage home visit education for pre-school children
The Portage Service is a term-time home visiting educational service for pre-school children with additional support needs
This small team of experienced Early Years Teachers and Practitioners is based at the Child Development Centre (CDC) within the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital site
An educational psychologist is someone who visits schools to work with teachers, parents or carers and students
If your child needs extra support with communication and interaction you need to speak to your school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) or SEND Outreach Team
First steps to support your child’s cognition and learning. Speaking to your child’s school SENCO and using the Specialist Advisory Service
Social, emotional and mental health
The main support services for social, emotional and mental health for young people. The things they can help with
Spotting the signs of a physical disability and how to get support
The Educational Team for Hearing and Vision offer a wide range of services to support children and young people who have been diagnosed with hearing and/or vision loss from birth to leaving school
The Specialist Advisory Service specialise in learning and cognition, communication and interaction and in social and emotional and mental health needs
School attendance and education welfare
Your child’s attendance and penalties
School exclusions and inclusion
Types of exclusions, the information you should have, and referral to other services
The home tuition service provides temporary educational support for children and young people who are unable to attend school for medical or health reasons
Information for children and young people, age 5 to 16, who are educated at home
Making a good transition between schools, key stages, or classes
Further education and training
Finding out your options and help to make the right decision
Lincs2 – Learning and training opportunities in North East Lincolnshire
Local learning and training opportunities including SEND courses
NELC SEND Local Offer | COVID-19 guidance and updates
Covid information to help children with SEND
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)/ Dyspraxia
- Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Intellectual Disability/Learning Disability Sensory Needs
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
Links to health apps and the NHS website.
Find a GP, pharmacy, and dentist. Use the Minor Ailment scheme if you do not pay for prescriptions.
Midwives, health visitors and school nurses
Midwives for pregnancy, birth and afterwards. Health visiting for 0-5 years, school nurses for 5-19 years.
Learning disability annual health checks for 14 plus
An annual health check helps you stay well by talking about your health and finding any problems early, so you get the right care.
Community and hospital services
- Speech and language
- Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- Dietitians
- Children’s Continence Service
- Adult ADHD and ASD Services
- Adult Learning Disability Team
- Children’s Complex Health Team
- Designated Clinical Officer for SEND
- Children’s Continuing Health Care
- Personal Health Budgets
- Children’s Nurse Educator
- Complex Health Nurse
- Nurse in School (Humberston Park)
- St Andrew’s Hospice
The route for children who’ve tried support and need further help. Get a referral, understand what happens and when, and request a review.
North East Lincolnshire Council’s page with links to various health and wellbeing information. Weight, drugs, mental health, young people and more.
Social, emotional and mental health
Help for:
- ADHD
- OCD
- Eating concerns and disorders
- Anxiety, stress and worry
- Low mood and depression
- Sleep
- Trauma and PTSD
- Self harm
- Exam stress
An educational psychologist is someone who visits schools to work with teachers, parents or carers and students.
We are trained to find out how learning, development and behaviour can be made better.
North East Lincolnshire’s professional learning community. The SEN page includes useful links for Key Stage 1,2,3 and 4.
Wheelchair loans, personal wheelchair budgets and equipment and adaptations to support daily living.
We provide practical and reliable advice about giving medicine to your child.
Have your say on health services
Current survey’s and consultations, engagement and coproduction, feedback and complaints for NHS Services, Healthwatch, PALS, and EHCP Annual Review Feedback.
Boloh – the Black and Asian family Helpline | BAME Helpline (barnardos.org.uk)
Helping for adult asylum seeker or a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic child aged 11+, young person, parent or carer.
The Children’s Disability Service (CDS), like Family Information Services, will provide you with information about universal services and more specialist groups that can offer support, without the need for an assessment.
Care (Currently under review)
NSPCC – Safeguarding children with special educational needs and disabilities
Adults who work with children and young people with SEND should be aware of the additional needs children may have that could mean they are more vulnerable to abuse and/or less able to speak out if something isn’t right.
Early Help includes childcare and funding, group sessions and programmes for your child’s development as well as local information, and links to support for both parents and professionals.
Young people released from custody
Educational arrangements for young people released from custody who have an EHCP and who don’t have an EHCP.
Support for young carers and to meet other young carers and have fun.
Adult Carers (Currently under review)
It is our aim that short breaks will contribute to keeping disabled children safe and healthy, enabling them to enjoy new activities, make friends, and have new learning opportunities, as well as preparing teenagers for adulthood.
Public toilets including changing places
Where are the public toilets? What about adult changing places and RADAR keys?
The Education, Health and Care (EHC) Hub is an online case management system which manages requests for EHC plans and the annual reviews of these plans.
To log in go to EHC Hub
For more information go to About the EHC Hub.
Under development
We are currently developing this page.
Parents of children with SEND suggested that we could improve this page by adding descriptions to the links to make it easier to understand.
If you would like to suggest content please use the Local Offer feedback form. Find out more about other ways we can improve what we can offer you and your child on the Engagement and co-production page.