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SEND general support and advice groups

Information about local, regional and national groups and networks related to special education needs and disabilities.

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) groups

North Yorkshire Connect - the community directory for North Yorkshire

Groups which cover a range of needs

  • Access Creative
  • Action for Children
  • AMP Inclusive Music Activity Cards
  • Association of Education Psychologists
  • British Psychological Society
  • Carer's Resource
  • Council for Disabled Children
  • Creative Support
  • Department for Education
  • Disability Action Yorkshire
  • Education Endowment Foundation
  • Henshaws
  • Home from Home Care
  • Jennyruth Workshops website
  • Kids community of experience
  • National Association of Principal Educational Psychologists
  • National Association of Professionals concerned with Language Impaired Children website
  • National Association of Special Educational Needs website and Send Gateway
  • National Governors’ Association
  • Nipperbout Active Childcare
  • Northallerton Mencap Society or Mencap
  • NYMAZ Special Educational Needs and / or Disabilities (SEND) Music Network
  • Parent Carer Voice
  • Pioneer Projects (Creative Project in Craven area)
  • Purple Patch Arts
  • Rehab 4 Addiction website
  • Ripon Walled Garden
  • Ryedale Special Families website
  • SENDIASS North Yorkshire
  • Sibs - for brothers and sisters of disabled children and adults
  • Skipton Extended Learning for All website
  • The Challenging Behaviour Foundation - resource: planning for adulthood
  • TutorFair
  • Whitby Hidden Impairments Support and Help (WHISH) email address: whishgroup@gmail.com
  • Yatton House
  • Yorkshire Coast Families
  • Young Carers Resource

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