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There are a number of Lego clubs running throughout Shropshire, if your child or young person enjoys getting creative with little colourful bricks. You can find a list of local clubs here.
For any parent carers in the Oswestry area you might be interesting in the Oswestry SEN Parent group. This is a link to their Facebook page, and they often post about regular meet ups and events for children and young people. It’s certainly worth a follow. There are other Facebook groups on the SEND Local Offer, but if you know of others please let us know, you can email us at Local.Offer@Shropshire.gov.uk
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Your local SEND Local Offer is a single place for information on all things SEND in Shropshire. Alongside the website, a lot of useful information aimed at parent carers of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, is also shared through their social media channels, which up to now have included Facebook and Twitter.
They are excited to announce that they are now also on Instagram – but probably draw the line at TicTok!
Follow them for up-to-date information to support children, young people and families in Shropshire. You can also still follow them on Facebook and Twitter
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Meet Tilley. Tilley is a teenage girl who lives in Telford. She was diagnosed with Autism in March of last year and talks about how the last few months have been and how she enjoys the DUGOUT group. Watch this short video to hear about Tilley’s Autism journey.
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Are you a Parent Carer of a young person aged 14-25?
The Healthy Parent Carers programme aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Parent Carers through:
- Promoting greater empowerment, resilience and confidence of parent carers.
- Taking small steps that are associated with better health and wellbeing.
- Encouraging setting achievable goals and taking a problem-solving approach.
This 12-week programme will be delivered on MS Teams for 2 hours a week on a Tuesday 10-12. There are still spaces on the next Healthy Parent Carer Programme which is due to start in March/April
For more information or to register, please contact Abi on Abi@paccshropshire.org.uk or Denise on Denise@paccshropshire.org.uk
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Relationships can be difficult, complicated, fun, satisfying, exciting, annoying, bring out the best in us, bring out the worst in us. We are often in one, but we don’t often spend much time on them. So here’s the chance
- Do you feel your relationship needs some attention?
- Do you feel you are drifting a bit lately or things have been difficult?
- Would you like to meet with other parents and carers?
- Are you looking for a way forward?
Why not join us for an exciting new 4 week workshop with one 2 hours session each week. This workshop looks at relationships, their dynamics, impacts and how we can improve them.
Starts Wednesday 8th March for 4 weeks, 12.30-2.30pm in Shrewsbury
To book a place on the workshop or for further information, including the venue please contact the Parenting Team by emailing parenting.team@shropshire.gov.uk or call 01743 250950
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Remap Shropshire is a branch of Remap, a national charity that provides custom-made equipment for disabled people. Our skilled volunteers provide innovative, practical solutions to everyday challenges encountered by disabled people.
We will try to help you by adapting something or making you a gadget that will make a difference. The equipment we make is free of charge and made just for one person. To find out more you can contact us directly, or ask your occupational therapist or other healthcare professional to make a formal referral.
Could they help you? Find out more on their website.
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NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin have a Children and Young Person’s Mental Health Transformation Plan which aims to examine and plan for the future services needed across the local area. They are encouraging parent carers to look at the plan – as it needs the involvement and input from service users themselves and all service providers across the NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector. It is a long document but hopefully the table of contents will take you to the section you are especially interested in.
A dedicated email address has been set up for you to use for your comments and input.
Email: stw.cypmh_stw_transformationplan@nhs.net
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The January PACC newsletter is here! This month there is information on developing co-production in Shropshire, what support you should expect during teacher strikes and an 'Ask Abi' all about online safety. We hope you enjoy reading the newsletter and find it helpful. If you have any feedback or would like information about a particular topic to be included in future newsletters please do get in touch on abi@paccshropshire.org.uk |
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Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin School Aged Immunisation service offers vaccinations to all children aged 4 (in reception year) to 16 and up to 18-year-olds in special educational needs schools. The service works with schools across the county to deliver its vaccination programmes. Debbie Jones, Clinical Team Lead for School Aged Immunisation Service in Shropshire Telford and Wrekin explains why it’s so important we ensure our children receive their vaccines. To read more, click here. |
NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin has recently been successful in securing NHS England funding to support the transformation of asthma services for children and young people. This exciting programme includes annual asthma reviews, 48-hour asthma reviews for children post-hospital discharge, specialist training and partnership working. A number of GP practices are currently involved in the early stages of this work. For more information, click here
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Remember - No diagnosis is needed to access the AWM Shropshire service and there is no formal referral route – parents/carers can self-refer by booking an advice appointment or contacting us directly. Details for both below…
February Half Term events!
Teens Meet – Monday 20th February 10.30am-1.30pm Shrewsbury (All In Short Breaks opportunity, young people need to be registered with All In to attend) Further information on Teens Meet is here. Information on how to apply for All In is on the SEND Local Offer
Teams Together – Teens online meet up Wednesday 1st March 6pm-7pm. Further information is available here.
Training - Learn more about autism
Autism and anxiety – Friday 17th March – FREE webinar, watch live or on catch-up. To register follow this link.
WEEKLY Teams Advice slots – every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
For those would like some online advice we are offering this virtually via video appointments. Teams works well on mobile phones. To book a 45 min advice appointment with a specialist autism advisor please book via our shop. If the dates/timings of our online advice appointments are not convenient for you, please contact us to make alternative arrangements – scroll down for details
Virtual Support Group for Parents - Wednesday Mornings 10am-11am and Wednesday Evenings 8pm-9pm – 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month (term time)
Our online support groups meet twice a month via Zoom. This is an opportunity to talk with other parents, share ideas, and offer support. We recommend that you have attended an online advice appointment with a member of the team before joining group sessions (link above). If you would like to join either of the support groups, please email the team here shropshire@autismwestmidlands.org.uk
Dad’s Group – Monthly on a Thursday 7pm-8pm
This is an opportunity for dads to meet online, share ideas, celebrate their children’s achievement’s and offer support to each other with a member of Autism West Midlands present. More information and booking details are here.
Advice and support
We also offer advice and support over the phone and via email. Parents/carers and professionals can contact our small team directly to arrange an appointment including face-to-face if preferable.
Shropshire office - 01952 454156
Weds, Thu, Fri - Emma Hegenbarth 07881109480
Tue, Wed, Thu - Dawn Lewis 07706309382
Thursday - Nicola King
Email shropshire@autismwestmidlands.org.uk
Helpline: 0121 450 7575
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PACC has been highlighting the need for a specific SEND Early Help offer in Shropshire for some time. Early Help is about providing early support, rather than waiting until a child or family’s situation hits crisis point. Early Help can be appropriate at any stage of a child’s or young person’s life.
Feedback received by PACC over the last couple of years has suggested that the current Early Help offer in Shropshire is not effectively responding to the needs of SEND families, therefore they welcomed the Early Help Review announced before Christmas.
PACC has provided input to the Review in two ways: before Christmas, Sarah and Zara met with the independent Review lead to share key relevant points shared with PACC in their recent ‘State of SEND – Shropshire Update 2022’ report linked to the delivery of Early Help.
They also carried out a more targeted survey during December and January asking parent carers to specifically tell them about their experience of Early Help in Shropshire. You can read the report here.
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On Monday 16 January, partners and parent carers from across Shropshire met to discuss how to improve the co-production of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services.
The room was packed with over fifty people including parent carers of children and young people with SEND, and those working in health, social care and education. Everyone came together for a workshop called ‘Embedding Co-production’. Conversations reflected on the importance of listening to children and young people who access services, as well as including their parents and carers. There were also discussions about the importance of the feedback loop to demonstrate that having your say makes a real difference. Everyone involved is committed to hearing more from children and young people with SEND and their parent carers and to co-produce services with them more often. To find out more about the event visit the PACC website.
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We are inviting unpaid and family carers of all ages to take part in this consultation of the Shropshire All Age Carer strategy 2022-2027.
An unpaid and family carer is someone who, without pay, provides support to an individual who lives in Shropshire and may be ill, frail, with disabilities, have poor mental health or drug and alcohol problems, meaning they're unable to manage without this care and support.
Whether you are an adult supporting a friend or family member, a parent looking after a child who has additional needs, or a young person who spends a lot of time looking after members of your family please look at the draft strategy and tell us what you think.
The strategy contains seven priorities that we want to implement in Shropshire over the next 5 years to ensure unpaid and family carers, of all ages:
- Identify as a carer earlier and are offered appropriate information, advice and support and opportunities to share their views and help to shape local services.
- Remain emotionally and physically well.
- Are empowered to plan for their future and have access to support that allows them to fulfil their own educational and employment potential.
- Participate in family and community life that includes things that are of interest to them alongside their caring role.
The Shropshire All-Age Carer Strategy 2022-2027 has been produced by gathering the knowledge and views from organisations in health and social care, voluntary and community sector and, most importantly, from carers and former carers from across the County. It is vital that carers continue to be involved in informing the implementation of the strategy so that our priorities and actions reflect the lived experience of carers in Shropshire.
Find out more and have your say
Consultation ends 6 March 2023.
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