Useful Information
Helpful websites
Good starting point:
Gov.uk - outlines the rights of people with disabilities, their education and available benefitsDisability Rights UK has published a FREE guide for disabled students called Into Higher Education 2013
About Money:
To find out more and check any financial help on offer at 18+ see: Gov.uk - this has all the latest information about student finance and other sources of income to help you to carry on learning.
We've added some information about the Personal Independence Payment which is due to be introduced in 2013
There is also information about money on this site
Parents and carers may also find the following helpful:
Parent Partnership Services offer information, advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs. Parent Partnership Services are also able to put parents in touch with other local and national organisations.
Walsall Parent Partnership Service
Blakenhall Village
Thames Road
Walsall
West Midlands
WS3 1LZ
Tel: 01922 650 330
Email: parentpartnership@walsall.gov.uk
Website: www.walsallparentpartnership.org.uk
Local and National Voluntary Organisations and Charities
AFASIC - Overcoming Speech Impairment. Tel helpline: 08453 555 577
Action on Hearing Loss - Helpline: 0808 808 0123
Ataxia UK - Helpline: 0845 644 0606
Autism Helpline - Tel: 0845 070 4004, Minicom: 0845 070 4003
Autism West Midlands - Tel: 0121 450 7575
British Deaf Association - Tel: 02476 550936, Textphone: 02476 550393
British Dyslexia Association - Tel: 0845 251 9002
Carers UK - Tel: 0808 808 7777
Contact a Family - Tel: 0808 808 3555
Dial Network (Disability Information Lines) - Tel: 01302 310 123, Textphone: 01302 310 123
Disability Rights UK
Disability Law Service - Tel: 020 7791 9800 Textphone 020 7791 9801
Dyspraxia Foundation - Tel helpline: 01462 454 98
Epilepsy Action - Tel helpline: 0808 800 5050
Epilepsy Society - Tel helpline: 01494 601 400
Family Fund Trust - Tel: 0845 130 4542/ 01904 6212115, Textphone: 01904 658085
Independent Parental Special Education Advice (IPSEA), Tel: 0800 018 4016
MENCAP - Tel: 0300 333 1111, Typetalk: 18001 0808 808 1111
Mind - Tel: 0845 766 0163
Muscular Dystrophy Group - Information and Support Line: 0800 652 6352
Rathbone UK- Tel: 0161 236 5358, Freephone: 0800 731 5321
RETHINK - Tel advice line: 0207 840 3188
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) - Tel: 0303 123 9999
Scope - Tel: 0808 800 3333
SENSE - Tel: 0845 127 0060, Textphone: 0845 127 0062
Young Minds - Tel: 0808 8025544 (Young Minds Parents Helpline)
