WELCOME MESSAGE

Hello and welcome my name is Marsha, I am the manager of the SENFSG.

This charity was set up in 1991 by parents of children with many different disabilities, and Additonal needs, social and communication difficulties, ADHD, austim, dysphasia, dyslexia, behavioural difficulties, visual impairment, deafness or hard of hearing, we can offer parenting techniques to tackle difficult situations, we support other issues such as bullying, family breakdown, domestic violence, substance abuse. Please know that you are not alone in your difficulties, we understand your circumstances and will help your family to improve your understanding of your child's needs and the complex legal systems that may affect your children and family's additional needs.

If you have got this far then you are well on your way to getting the support and the guidance that you require to help you in your quest for finding information and help to give your child a better future.

We work with lots of other agencies and charities so that we can keep up to date on information and services available for families and children.

Here at the Special Educational Family Support group. We aim to help all kinds of children with special needs and their families. We can contact other relevant organisations, attend meetings with statutory officers, schools, social services and offer additional support for the family when meeting other services. We can offer general independent support and a shoulder to lean on in times of difficulty.

Please look through our site and if we can help you then please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

Our telephone number is 0161 755 3482/07990 594060

We have been helping families with additional needs for over 19 years. We have a valuable bank of volunteers many of whom have their own families with additional needs. Because of this we can usually put you in touch with another parent who can help you and understand your difficulty.

About SENFSG

The Special Educational Needs Family Support Group was established in 1991 as an independent advice and support network for families, carers and young people. A registered charity 1055954, SEN works in an open, accountable and transparent way that supports all children, and promotes the active involvement of parents, carers and young people. The charity not only aims to provide the information support and quality advice that parents need to support their child / family but also to run a family centre where both young and old can gain access to their valuable services. At the centre you will find child and adolescent friendly counselling room with access to adequate equipment, a training room and resource library.

In 2009 The Special Educational Needs Family Support Group advised and supported 671 parents and young people with special and additonal educational needs to get access to appropriate services for their children and their families. We work closely with other services to help families and young people.

Our services and projects are based on the needs identified by young people, parents,carers and by data collated by local authorities. All of our work is evaluated by our service users and the results of these evaluations are then used to improve the quality of our services and to develop new services and projects.

The Special Educational Needs Family Support Group has traditionally provided one to one support to parents through our telephone help line and through meetings with parents/ carers and their children. Where possible we provide advice, accompany parents to meetings at schools, social services, health meetings with local authority staff, health workers.

At our family centre we also provide counselling for all ages, stretching from infant to grandparent.