• • Pubic Health England Coronavirus COVID-19 Information
  • Halton Borough Council Coronavirus Advice
  • North West SEND Regional Newsletter Special Edition Coronavirus COVID-19
  • Questions and Answers Coronavirus Guidance on vulnerable children and young people
  • NHS England and NHS Improvement (19/03/2020) Coronavirus Information, Toolkits, e-Learning
  • Active Halton Staying Active at home during COVID-19

1. Make sure to take care of yourself. Remember the airline safety briefing that tells adults to “put on your own oxygen mask before helping others”?  This same advice applies to challenging or traumatic experiences and children’s well-being too. Children cope better when their parents are resilient and have strong social supports
2. Try to establish a “new normal” in terms of daily routines
3. Children tend to like predictability and routines and it can be tricky without school to structure the day
4. It might help to make a daily schedule while schools are closed so that kids know what will happen during the day and when it will happen 

• National Autistic Society Coronavirus – Everything you need to know
• Autism East Midlands Autism, Anxiety and Coronavirus 
• Council for Disabled Children COVID-19 advice and support
• World Health Organisation Helping children cope with stress during the 2019-nCoV outbreak
• Young Minds What to do if you’re anxious about Coronavirus
• Contact Coronavirus: Information for families with disabled children
• Cardiff & Vale University Health Board Supporting Children with Learning disability/ASD: coping with COVID-19 isolation
• Carers UK Coronavirus Guidance
• Anxiety during self-isolation  

Pupils of all ages – primary and secondary levels of education

• Department for Education (DfE) resources on supporting and promoting mental wellbeing  to help children to learn at home
• DfE and the BBC Bitesize online educational package and social media channels

Educational Helpline for staff, parents/carers and young people

Opening hours: 8am-6pm (Monday to Friday)

• Department of Education Dedicated Coronavirus (COVID-19)  Tel: 0800 046 8687
• Email: [email protected]

Parents/Carers

• Educational Advice for parents/carers Becoming a Full-Time Educator (Planning Ahead)
• Emergency Powers Bill (Education) Schedule 16-Corona Bill & Section 42/43 Children and Families Act 2014 Steve Broach’s vlog Special Needs Jungle

Educational Settings

• Public Health England Advice on Coronavirus for places of education
• Minister Ford’s Open letter to the SEND sector
• GOV.uk Disabled Charities Consortium Letter Supporting disabled people through the Coronavirus outbreak

Residential Educational Settings, Boarding Schools, Residential Special Schools/Colleges and Children’s Homes

GOV.uk Isolation Guidance and COVID-19 to support management of children and young people

• Amaze FAQs information pack for parents
• British Psychological Society Importance of talking to children about Coronavirus
• Young Minds Talking to your child about Coronavirus
• Psychology Today Coronavirus (COVID-19): What to talk about with your child
• Place2Be Coronavirus: Helpful information to answer questions from children
• NPR Goats and Soda Just for Kids: A comic exploring the new Coronavirus
• Wellbeing Enterprises COVID-19 Online Course & Support Service for children and young people

WHO Info-Graphic Tips for Parents

1. One to One Time
2. Keeping it Positive
3. Structure Up
4. Bad Behaviour
5. Keep Calm and Manage Stress
6. Talking about COVID-19

• Together for Short Lives Coronavirus Q&A guide for parent carers of children and young people with complex health needs
• WellChild Ten ways to keep my child with complex health needs safe

• The Youth Mental Health Project COVID-19 and the Mental Health of your Children
• Mind Coronavirus and your wellbeing
• The Mental Health Foundation Looking after your mental health during the Coronavirus outbreak
• Anna Freud NCCF Supporting parents/carers to help children and young people’s mental health/wellbeing through disruption caused by Coronavirus
• Every Mind Matters Mental wellbeing while staying at home
• Supporting yourself and colleagues at work Coronavirus and Isolation
• Halton Health Improvement Team Mental Health Information Point and Halton Covid-19 PR Toolkit v1
• Wellbeing Enterprises COVID-19 Online Course & Support Service for children and young people

 Guides produced by North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

• Wash Hands Easy Read
• Washing Hands sequence
• Having your temperature taken
• Having a mouth swab
• Mouth swab sequence
• PPE – Personal Protection Equipment
• Staying in the house
• Staying in your room
• No day services
• No college
• No work

• Public Health England Advice about Coronavirus
• Mencap  Coronavirus Guide
• Mencap Makaton Handwashing Guide
• Young Minds Looking after your mental health while self-isolating
• Covibook Interactive support to reassure children aged 7 and under (Help children express emotions during the pandemic)
• Talking Mats Guide to social distancing
• BBC Newsround Videos and information about the Coronavirus for children
• Carers UK Guidance for carers
• UK Youth and National Youth Agency Support for youth workers and young people

To all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), their parents/carers and families, and others who support them
Joint Dept for Health & Social Care and Dept for Education Ministerial Letter 30.4.2020

Halton Borough Council’s update – We are committed to continue to support the EHC Plan process, however, not all the assessment advice will be immediately available.Assessments for an EHC Plan may look different as these are not currently being undertaken face to face. We have moved to do this work by telephone or video calls where possible. Our decision-making panels will still take place but this work will be done remotely. We will continue to review these necessary changes.

Due to COVID 19, face to face delivery of the service has ceased until further notice. The service is still operating and can be accessible by the following links:

•  Facebook: Young Addaction Halton 
• Twitter: (Will update when is reactivated) 
• Instagram: @wearewithyouhalton 
• Email: [email protected]

We will be sharing hints / tips throughout the day and contact details of staff. 

Some group provision has moved onto an online platform like GLOW and Halton Youth Cabinet. For more information please contact Phil McClure on [email protected] or 07814780821.

There will be no outreach or youth zone delivered at this time however the service remains contactable between the hours of 9am-8pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. On Saturday  between 2-7pm. Information on who is on call on those days can be found on our social media pages which is updated daily. 

 For any further information please contact Emma Moran, Team Leader on [email protected] or 07790806641 or Jennifer Rushworth – Claeys, Contract Manager on [email protected] or 07976863038

Halton Borough Council’s 14-19 Team Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/hpsyourfuture

Riverside College Foundation Studies 

https://twitter.com/riversidecoll?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.instagram.com/riverside_coll/

https://www.riversidecollege.ac.uk/social-media/

https://www.instagram.com/riversidecrontonhealth/?hl=en

https://www.rchfs.net/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCenZh31JE5XOsdrpyL_kZ-w

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rchfs/albums

 Apprenticeship Hub

www.be-more.info/

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Updated practice direction which was issued by the Senior President of Tribunals relating to panel composition in the First-tier and Upper Tribunals during the current COVID-19 pandemic, published on the 19th March 2020.

 Practice Guidance