Our core offer
Our core offer is services at St Quintin Centre that are available to children with disabilitiies and their families.
Before we can offer you our services, we will assess you to make sure you fit our eligibility criteria.
Our services
- Access to a keyworker service for parents who need help in accessing services for their children aged 0-9 years of age.
- Signposting for higher support packages or further support.
- Fee access to our sensory toy library.
- Access to family fun days at the weekends and in the holidays.
- Access to stay and play on Monday-Friday from 10am-12 noon and Sunday from 11am-3pm.
- Free access to the centre in the school holidays for stay and play - days and times as advertised.
- Access to any after-school activity. One activity per family per term. These are charged at £10 per term and booked in advance. These are for children aged between 5-12 years of age. Activities include swimming, cooking, dance, arts and craft and sensory storytelling.
- Access to any after-school youth activity. One activity per family per term. These are charged at £10 per term and booked in advance. These are for children aged between 12-17 years of age. Activities include out and about in the community, cooking, dance, art projects, travel training and integration into local youth facilities.
- Free access to siblings group. Free of charge. Trips out are chargeable at £5 per trip. For children over 7 years of age.
- Family days out in school holidays. Charge of £10 per family.
- Access to activity days and sessions in school holidays such as yoga sessions, swimming, arts sessions. Charge of £2.50-£5 depending on the activity per session. These are for children over 5 years of age. Times vary.
- Access to one Sunday activity a month. Charged at £2.50 per session. These are for children over 5 years of age. Open 10am-3pm.
- Holiday project opportunities for young people to go away on an independent holiday. £80 per child.
- Training courses for parents as Triple P, autism awareness, makaton, first aid and early bird. Book through the Council's training website or contact the centre.
- Free access to parenting workshops such as sensory and communication workshops.
- Support to access mainstream youth clubs, including travel training, work experience and community based activities.
- Support to access inclusion mainstream community learning settings.
- Access to join our parents committee run by our parents.
- Free access to day programmes and workshops for parents and carers.
Holiday and Saturday care
We also provide after school, holiday and Saturday care. You will need an assessment to access these services.
Eligibility criteria
To eligible for our core offer services, a child with a disability needs to be:
- between the age of 0 and 18
- substantially affected in their everyday living by their disability
Disabilities are:
- global developmental delay
- learning disability
- sensory impairment
- physical impairment
- chronic ill health or medical problems
- serious life-limiting or terminal illness
- severe communication or language disorder
- autistic spectrum disorder and not able to access other services
Referrals
The family or professionals involved with the family can make a referral.
Referrals:
- from families can be made by phone, email or by completing a short application form
- by professionals are made by completing a referral form which is available from the centre
To access the centre you will also need to provide supporting evidence such as:
- proof of identity
- evidence that you are on the Joint Disability Register (if available)
- evidence you are receiving Disability Living Allowance
The decision about accessing the service is made by the manager of St Quintin.
How to find us
We are based in North Kensington.
Tube: Ladbroke Grove or Latimer Road (Hammersmith and City)
Buses: 52, 7, 23, 70