Articles on Short Breaks (22)

Personal Budgets

Personal budgets Instead of a managed budget where the local authority book and facilitate the child/ young person’s care package through our in-house services or external providers. Instead, you can manage the whole care package through the form of a personal budget. This means the…

Preschool Health Notifications

When a health care professional identifies that a young child, under 5, may have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) they are required by law to tell the local authority. This is called a Health Early Notification. In the Bi-Borough (Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster),…

Referral pathway forms

Resources for specific SEND areas

Please click the sections below for specific resources to support children and young people, categrorised by specific SEND need.

Short Breaks

What is a Short Break? How to Access a Short Break Short Breaks menu Short Breaks pathways Early Intervention and Support Team Assesment and Review Team Preparing for Transition and Adulthood Team Inclusion Occupational Therapy Services Centres for Disabled Children & Young People Parenting Support…

Short Breaks - More Information

What is a Short Break? Short breaks enable disabled children, young people and adults to have time away from their carers, explore new opportunities, have fun and broaden their social networks whilst promoting independence. They can provide families with an opportunity to have a break…

Short Breaks Menu

The Short Breaks menu displays the full range of universal, core and assessed short break provision for children and young people with disabilities, and their families, funded by Kensington and Chelsea or Westminster City Council. Use this resource to find activities that might benefit you…

Short Breaks newsletters

The upcoming Short Breaks newsletters will be available on this page soon. 

Short Breaks Pathways

This is where you can access the Short Breaks Pathways which show the core, targeted and specialist offer for CYP 0-18. You can view each pathway by selecting the tabs below.   

Short Breaks through the Locality Social Work Teams for children with Aspergers, ADHD, and Mental Health Conditions

Short breaks for children with a disability who are substantially adversely affected in their ability to carry out normal day to day activities by the following conditions need to be applied for though the Locality Social Work Teams:  High functioning Autism and Aspergers Emotional and…