Useful websites for families with disabled children
Find out where to get information and support from for your disabled child and your family.
General information
- Directgov
- NHS Carers Direct
- Citizens’ advice
- Carers Lewisham
- Contact
- Lewisham Parent and Carer's Forum
- The Family Fund
- New Life Charity
- Disability Grant
- Disabled Go
- Hft a national charity supporting people with learning disabilities
- Department for Work and Pensions offering support for job seekers
- Dial UK advice centres throughout the UK run by and for disabled people of all ages
- London Recumbents specialist bike hire
- Makaton
- BILD (British Institute of Learning Disabilities)
- Oily Cart Theatre Production Company for specialist needs creates theatre for young people with complex disabilities (profound and multiple learning disabilities and the autistic spectrum)
Services
Getting out and about
- Advice about travelling by bus or coach
- Support parking through the Blue Badge Scheme
- Support travelling by rail with the Disabled Person’s Railcard
- Support travelling by bus with the Freedom Pass
- Information about special needs school transport
- How to find accessible toilets
- How to get a ‘radar key’ that will unlock disabled toilets
- The Nationwide Access Register