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Autism advice and wellbeing courses and workshops from Autism Berkshire
10 February 2021
Autism Berkshire has a series of free courses and workshops coming up before Easter, which are open to Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire residents These include a series of special workshops, run in conjunction with Acre’s Alafia service, to support the mental health and wellbeing of families with autistic children in the Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic ...
How ABC to Read is supporting children with their reading during the Covid-19 pandemic
10 February 2021
With school closures, a lot of ABC to Read’s volunteers paused their usual face-to-face support in primary schools Our mission to help children access good literacy skills continues and there has never been a more important time for our work so we have adapted our support to offering virtual reading sessions so that we can still ...
Youth counselling in Berkshire West – CCG seek to re-commission service offer
10 February 2021
Berkshire West CCG wishes to continue to fund face to face youth counselling for the next 3 years, starting April 2021, to complement the recently commissioned digital offer as local access and choice in provision is important to maintain. We have £90,000 available per year. The CCG requires three separate offers set up within the 3 ...
Help with technology – and other home schooling resources
29 January 2021
Help with technology Increasing data allowances on mobile devices to support disadvantaged children: this scheme temporarily increases data allowances for mobile phone users on certain networks. This is so that disadvantaged children and young people can access remote education if their face-to-face education is disrupted, and they do not have access to broadband at home. Read ...
New school nurse support line
29 January 2021
The School Nurse Advice Line supports children, young people and their families who live in West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham and Bracknell. It’s an easy way to reach them for any health advice, questions and support you need. The support line is available Monday to Friday, 9am to 4.30pm. Call 0300 365 0010. We are aware that the ...
