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We've collected a range of links to resources, help and support which you may find useful.
Specialist schools/colleges
SEND training and courses
- Face to face parenting programmes
- Online parenting and relationship courses
- PDA Society courses and events for parents and carers
- Rainbow parent course
- IPSEA - training for parents and carers
Barnsley Council services
- Barnsley Education Inclusion Service
- Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- SEND local offer directory
Other resources and support
ADHD support
- NHS - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD
- What is ADHD: explaining everything you don't understand about ADHD
Advocacy services
Asperger's support
Autism support
- Autism Education Trust - advice for parents and carers
- Barnsley Council - autism spectrum conditions
- Brain in hand personal technology for independent living
- National Autistic Society
- National Autistic Society - early bird support group
- NHS learning disability support
Bereavement support
- Barnsley Hospital bereavement support
- Bereavement support groups
- Bereavement Support Payment
- BereavementSupport.co.uk
- Care for the Family
- Live Well Barnsley
- MIND
- NHS - coping with bereavement
- SupportLine
Bullying and harassment support
- Anti-Bullying Alliance
- Barnsley Council - get help if you're being bullied
- Bullying at school
- Contact - bullying advice
- GOV.UK - preventing bullying
Carers
Children and young people's activities and support groups
- Ad Astra Barnsley
- Army Cadets Barnsley
- Barnsley targeted youth support
- Chilypep
- Sea Cadets Barnsley
- Study in the UK - information for students with disabilities
- YMCA Barnsley
Dyslexia support
- British dyslexia association
- Dyslexia Trust
- Dyslexia test
- Helen Arkell - child support
- The Dyslexia SpLD trust
- IPSEA - dyslexia getting extra help with exams
- NHS dyslexia conditions
- Dyslexia explained eBook
- Special Needs Jungle - spotting signs of dyslexia
Dyspraxia
Early help assessment (EHA)
EHCPs (education, health and care plans)
- EHC plan leaflet for young people
- Getting to know your EHCP
- EHCP process map (Information, Advice and Support Services Network)
- IPSEA: What to do when you receive your draft EHC plan
- IPSEA: What an EHC plan contains
- IPSEA: What to do when you receive your final EHC plan
- IPSEA: Annual Review
- IPSEA: The annual review process
Education/EOTAS (education other than at school)
- Barnsley Council - school admissions and transfers
- Barnsley Council - Education Welfare Service
- Good schools guide
- GOV.UK - school performance tables
- School search website
Education welfare
Exam support
Exclusions
- Barnsley Council - excluding pupils from school
- Child law advice - school exclusion
- GOV.UK school exclusion
- IPSEA advice - exclusion from school
Family
Global development delay
Health and wellbeing
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- NEDA - National Eating Disorder
- NHS England: Ask, Listen, Do
- Healthwatch Barnsley
- KidsHealth
- LiveWell Barnsley
- NHS
Interpretation services
- Barnsley Council - access for disabled people
- Barnsley Council - hearing support
- Barnsley Council offices
- British Deaf Association
- thebigword
- Language Empire
- Sign Solutions
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diversity)
- Action for Children - LGBT
- Childline - sexuality
- TransYouth Family Allies
- Mermaids
- Supportline - sexuality
- Time to Listen
Makaton
Mental health support
- CAMHS - child and adolescent mental health service
- Chilypep - mental health
- Healthy place
- The Mix
- Hopeline UK
- Rethink mental illness
- Young minds
- Ad Astra Barnsley
- Mind
- Rotherham and Barnsley Mind
Organisations supporting SEND and mental health
- Action for Children
- Ad Astra Barnsley
- Barnardos Barnsley
- Barnsley Education Inclusion Services
- Cerebra
- Contact
- Council for disabled children
- DIAL Barnsley
- Disabled Living
- Coram: family and childcare
- Family Information Service - Local Offer
- Family lives
- Hand in hand parenting
- Kids
- Mencap Barnsley
- National Children's Bureau
- Scope
- Sense
- Social, communication and interaction team
Pathological demand
Prader Willi syndrome
SEN support
Sensory impairment (visual/hearing)
Sleep issues
Studying in the UK as a student with disabilities
Toileting
Transition
Transport support
Translation services
- Barnsley Council - access for disabled people
- Barnsley Council - hearing support
- Barnsley Council - Education Inclusion Services
- Barnsley Council offices
- British Deaf Association
- thebigword
- Language Empire
- Sign Solutions
Welfare and financial support
SEND legislation resources
SEND guidance
- Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- Guidance to support parents with SEND children
- SEND - a guide for parents and carers - August 2014
- SEND code of practice 2015 - a quick guide to the chapters
- Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) guidance
Equality Act
- Guide for early years providers on the disability duties in the Equality Act
- Guide for schools on the disability duties in the Equality Act
- Guide for further education colleges on the disability duties in the Equality Act
- The Equality Act 2010 and schools - May 2014
School transport
SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
- SEND code of practice (0-25 Years) - January 2015
- Early years guide to the 0 to 25 SEND code of practice - September 2014
- Further education guide to the 0-25 SEND code of practice - September 2014
SEND reforms
- Easy read guide for parents on SEND reforms - December 2014
- Easy read guide for children and young people on SEND reforms – December 2014
- Policy paper - Every child achieving and thriving
Education
Alternative provision
Attendance
Children missing education
Early years foundation stage (birth to 5 years)
Elective home education
Exclusions
Fair access
National curriculum
- National curriculum
- Key stage 1 access arrangements
- Key stage 2 access arrangements
- Languages programmes of study
School admissions
Health and wellbeing
Children who can't attend school because of health needs
Mental health and behaviour in schools
- Behaviour in schools: advice for headteachers and school staff - February 2024
- Mental health and behaviour in schools - November 2018
- Use of reasonable force in schools - July 2013
- Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention in schools - June 2019
Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions
- Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions - December 2015
- Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions: Links to other Resources - August 2017
For children and young people
- Support for children and young people
- Advice for parents on cyberbullying
- Careers guidance - further education and sixth form - May 2025
- My activity passport - activity checklist for children under 11
Transport
- Home to school transport consultation draft - July 2019
- Post-16 transport and travel support to education and training - January 2019
Complaints
Research reports
Further legislation and law resources
- Children and Families Act 2014 (full act of law - GOV.UK legislation)
- Children and Families Act 2014 (IPSEA guidance)
- Young person’s guide to the Children and Families Act 2014 (DfE – GOV.UK)
- Equality Act 2010 (GOV.UK legislation)
SEND children under the looked after category
SENDIASS work closely with children and young people who are looked after, as well as the carers who support them. We have strong links with kinship carers and provide direct Information, Advice and Support (IAS) to special guardians, adopters and other carers of children who have, or may have, SEND. Throughout 2025, we delivered training sessions for kinship carers and continue to support many kinship, foster and SGO carers who use our service.
Below are some resources we provided in the training sessions: