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Help & Advice for Children with Disabilities
There are a range of agencies offering help, advice and support to children with disabilities and their families. These include health services, education, social services and voluntary agencies.
There are services which children, young people and parents can go to direct for help, advice and support and there are other services that require an assessment of you and your child's needs and circumstances before a service may be offered.
Information and Advice Services
SIGN is a free information service for disabled children, young people and their families and the professionals who support them.
SIGN can provide you with information on:
- Specific conditions and disabilities
- Sources of support including local and national organisations
- Statutory services and how to access them
- Leisure and holiday information
- Mobility and equipment
- … and much more
You can contact SIGN at Ryegate Children's Centre:
Ryegate Children’s Centre
Tapton Crescent Rd
Sheffield
Tapton Crescent Rd
Sheffield
S10 5DD
Telephone: (0114) 266 9476 (answer phone service out of hours)
Email: sign@sheffinfolink.org.uk
SIGN is open Monday to Friday 10.00 am - 1.00 pm.
SIGN produce a Disability Information Pack for children and young people with disabilities, their families and professionals. To find out more and download the pack please go on the Sheffield Information Link website.
Sheffield Help Yourself Database
This is an on-line list of voluntary and community groups and resources across Sheffield. You can search for general terms like ''disability' or use the category lists at the bottom of the page - look for "People with Disabilities - General Support". Use the "Help Yourself" database.
How to Register your Child as ‘Disabled’ – Join the Sheffield INDEX
The Sheffield INDEX of Children and Young People with Disabilities is the ‘Child Disability Register’ for Sheffield. It is based at the Ryegate Childrens Centre. It is a confidential, secure database service that holds all necessary information about children and young people with ANY disability or life-altering health condition, aged 0-19, in the Sheffield area.
Parents/Carers must contact the Sheffield INDEX to register their child as ‘Disabled’ – no child is just added ‘automatically’ to the register without the full permission of the childs parents. You are responsible for choosing to register your child as being ‘Disabled’.
The information on the Sheffield INDEX is used for:
- planning
- providing important information to the government
- asking you and your family what you need
- circulating information to everyone on the Sheffield INDEX
In return for being on the Sheffield INDEX you will receive regular copies of the essential childrens disability newsletter ‘What’s Going On’, it is full of useful information about services and new developments across the city. You will also receive a registration certificate that proves your child has a disability, plus a pack of information tailored to the needs of your child.
To join the INDEX please contact Jackie Griffin at the Sheffield INDEX at Ryegate Children's Centre:
Freepost NEA12925
Tapton Crescent Rd
Sheffield
Tapton Crescent Rd
Sheffield
S10 5ZZ
Telephone: (0114) 271 7626 (answer phone out of hours)
You can visit the NHS Sheffield INDEX website.
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