About the service

The main purpose of Woodfield Child Development Service is to offer children and young people, who have neuro-developmental disorders, a comprehensive assessment service that identifies, investigates, assesses their development needs and offers appropriate support, intervention and advice.

The core team includes paediatricians, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, clinical psychology, clinical nurse specialists and music therapy. The service works in close partnership with community and acute service providers, education, social services and voluntary sector services. It also provides a local service for pupils attending Westminster Special Schools.

How to access the service

To request a referral form, please contact the Woodfield Child Development Service by telephone or email. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 7266 8777

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About the service

ASSIST provides free support for adults on the autism spectrum. It is intended for residents aged 18 and over, in Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, who have or who are actively seeking a diagnosis of autism.

ASSIST offer one to one appointments as well as group meetings.

Appointments: One to one appointments providing an opportunity to talk about and find ways of managing a wide range of issues- these might include employment, education, housing, coping strategies, physical and mental wellbeing, domestic skills and welfare.

Groups: There are weekly and monthly groups for people to develop their social networks and friendship groups. These groups include social activities, information seminars, museum trips, board games, gardening music and more.

Community: They deliver autism awareness classes for professional organisations which can help promote autism awareness in the community.

How to access the service

To receive support from ASSIST you need to:

• have a diagnosis, or be seeking a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism
• live in either Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea
• not eligible to receive adult social care support

You can access this service by appointment. Appointments can take place in a variety of locations such as the centre in Ladbroke Grove, coffee shops, libraries and they also can visit people at home.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 8962 3015

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About the service

Heart n Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity. They believe in the talents and power of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible. Projects include a creative taking part group (aged 18+), Heat and Soul Choir and other creative groups.

How to access the service

To access online and in person events visit Heart n Soul website.

If you have any questions, please call or email them. Find contact details below.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 869 41632

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About the service

Learning Disability Network London is a charity which supports adults and children with learning disabilities and their families across London. They provide different levels of support, from a few hours a week up to round-the clock care.

Services include supported living, domiciliary care, outreach, respite, family and community support.

Support for five-year-olds and under, and their families

Early Help Advice

Early Help Advice service provides information for parents on what services are available, helps parents navigate the education, health and care plan process and can act a point of contact for clinicians and social workers.

Portage

Portage is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with SEND and their families to enable children to reach their full potential and families to have a better quality of life.

The network works with families to help develop a quality of life and experience, for themselves and their young children, in which they can learn together, play together, participate and be included in their community in their own right.

Their aim is to play a part in minimising the disabling barriers that confront young children and their families.

The service offers free home visits to deliver Portage service to early years children (five and under) with any delay, educational difficulty or disability. There is support for children with or without a diagnosis.

Support for 25-year-olds and under, and their families

Family Support Service

Family Support Service offers support to families with children and young adults, up to the age of 25 years, with special educational needs and disabilities. There is support to parent carers of adults with learning disabilities in Westminster. Support can be long term or one-off and the LDN London team can visit families in their own homes or at other community based sites including LDN Community Hub Westminster.

How to access the service

To refer yourself to Family Services, complete the referral form by visiting the LDN London website.

Refer yourself forEarly Help Advice.

If you want to access the Community Hub, please fill in this form. It is free to come to The Hub, you can just come along. Once you attend some of the sessions, you will be invited to become a member of the Community Hub. This is a free membership and will include access to special events.

Learning Disability Network London is located in Westminster on 16a Croxley Road, W9 3HL.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Telephone: 020 8968 2682

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About the service

Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) for people with learning disabilities works with people and carers to promote independence. They offer advice and support to people on every aspect of living with a learning disability including:

• making choices, finding employment and being more independent
• healthy eating advice, health action plans and looking after yourself
• getting the most out of local health and social services
• budgeting and direct payments
• meeting other people and taking part in activities
• learning new skills
• short breaks for you and your carer

Our learning disability services are run in people's homes, health centres, nursing and residential homes throughout Barnet, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster.

How to access the service

This service is for people who have a learning disability, are 18 years or older or moving from children to adult services and have a GP in Kensington and Chelsea.

If you have a health related concern regarding your learning disability, you can refer yourself or ask someone refer you to the service. They can be your family, friend, GP, social worker or other professional.

You can make a referral by contacting CLCH SPA. You can email or call them. They will help you to make the referral. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected] (for referrals)
[email protected] (for more information)

Telephone: 020 8102 3889

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About the service

The Learning Disabilities Resource Centre is a social services day service for adults with complex physical and learning disabilities.

The centre provides a person-centred service that supports individuals to access their own community, college and centre-based activities/experiences focused on:

• swimming
• aerobics
• advocacy
• art
• yoga
• massage
• rebound therapy
• hydrotherapy sessions (physiotherapy in a heated swimming pool)
• music
• multisensory room
• IT/eye gaze sessions (controlling a computer through eye movements)
• travel training
• support to college
• access to local museums, i.e. Natural History Museum, Science Museum. etc.
• volunteer opportunities (office based volunteer opportunities in the community)

The centre-based work focuses on the needs of the service users that attend the service, offering physiotherapy exercises, speech and language assessments, eating and drinking guidelines and individual timetables for all service users. The centre works in conjunction with the Health and Care Management Learning Disability Team.

How to access the service

For more information, please contact Steve O'Sullivan via telephone or email. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: Steve.O'[email protected]

Telephone: 020 7313 6825

About the service

If you are worried that a child or young person might need help or is being neglected or hurt, it is important that you share your worries. Many people are worried that contacting Family Services will mean that children are taken into care. In fact, unless a child is in danger, Kensington and Chelsea Social Services Line will work hard with parents to help and support them so that the family can stay together. Of course where there is a serious issue of abuse or neglect we will protect children together with the police and other agencies.

If you are worried that someone is in immediate danger please call 999.

If you have concerns about the safety and welfare of a child who lives in Kensington and Chelsea you should contact us on the number below.

How to access the service

If you have concerns that a vulnerable adult is being subjected to abuse or neglect please contact them via email or telephone. Find contact details below.

Availability

Social Services Line: Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Emergency Duty Team: Monday to Friday between 5pm and 9am.

Contact details

Email:

[email protected]
[email protected] (Secure email)

Telephone:

020 7361 3013 (Social Services Line)
020 7373 2227 (Emergency Duty Team)

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About the service

The safety and welfare of children - or child protection - is everyone's business. You could be a neighbour, friend, parent, relative, child minder, teacher or doctor - or working for any organisation which has contact with children and young people.

Child protection means protecting children from physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect. It also means helping children to grow up into confident, healthy and happy adults.

Most children enjoy generally happy childhood experiences within their own family. Unfortunately for some, this is not the case. During difficult family times, everyone who knows the child must do the best they can to protect them from future harm.

Local Safeguarding Children Partnership provides guidance on what to do if you suspect a child is being sexually exploited.

How to access the service

If you want to report any abuse or discuss concerns in relation to children and young people please contact them. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Emergency Duty team opening hours are 5pm to 9am.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 7361 3013 (If you want to report any abuse or discuss concerns in relation to children and young people)

020 7641 2388 (Emergency Duty Team)

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About the service

The Housing and Employment Service offers specialised and friendly support to help you into work or training.

Our employment support officers will also help you to tackle other barriers to work such as housing or welfare benefits. Many of our residents have said that the help they have received from the service has been a huge benefit to them in many situations providing important information and guidelines to help improve their lives.

The Housing and Employment Team can help you to:

• find work and training – help with CV’s, job searching, application forms, and interview practice
• apply for welfare benefits – help and advice on applying for welfare benefits
• manage money and income maximisation: help to appeal welfare benefit decisions, budgeting, apply for grants, and reduce debt
• access other specialist services – we also work in partnership with other services to help you access specialist support if needed

How to access the service

All Kensington and Chelsea residents can access support from the Housing and Employment team.

The Housing and Employment Service is based at Kensington Town Hall. You can contact the team via telephone or email. Find contact details below.

Availability

Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 020 7361 2070

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About the service

Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations.

The training takes five hours to complete. In response to feedback, they have developed a bitesize approach to help the learning process.

In the eight-week programme, you spend 20 to 30 minutes per week engaging with the training.

The training will be finished by week eight, and learners will be awarded the gold-level status 'Committed to Trauma Informed Practice'.

How to access the service

Access the free pre-recorded training here.