If you’re home educating your child due to their pathological demand avoidance, the PDA Society has a range of helpful suggestions, approaches, and resources on their home education online resource. Follow the link to view: Home education “hub” – PDA Society Resources
Author: NLC (Kirsten Scott)
The Little Care Hub (Carer Breather Project)
For more information and to book space, please contact Laura: lauram@nldforum.org.uk or call 07761040668
Making Life Easier – North Lanarkshire Council’s Health and Social Care
Making Life Easier is an online resource offering information, professional advice and direct access to services and support. If you or someone you know are struggling with everyday activities or any aspects of health and well-being, help is available. The service can be accessed by residents of North Lanarkshire for themselves or for someone they...
Full of Beans
Full of Beans is a fun, free healthy lifestyle class for children aged 2-5yrs and their families. Our programme is inviting all families from across Lanarkshire to come along and learn some handy hints and tips on how to help with fussy eating, healthy snacking & managing screen time while enjoying some fun physical activity....
Scottish Government – survey on NHS Mental Health Services
Tell the Scottish Government about your experiences of NHS mental health services and support in Scotland. The Scottish Government has commissioned The Lines Between to carry out a study which aims to develop and assess a suite of options for the development of a survey that will capture people’s experiences of using NHS mental health services and support in Scotland. The Scottish...
Safer Sleep Resources
In June 2022 the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland launched the new Safer Sleep for Babies resources developed in partnership with the Lullaby Trust, UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative and BASIS the Baby Sleep Information Source based at Durham University. The resources include a guide for parents and carers, a guide for professionals and a quick...
Be a Star this Christmas
The Salvation Army, Bellshill is supporting our local community including Motherwell, Wishaw and Viewpark by providing toys and gifts for children and young people that might otherwise go without this Christmas. You can help them by choosing a gift from our Amazon wish list, the link can be found on the Bellshill Salvation Amy Church...
CAMHS
NHS Lanarkshire’s child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) will implement a significant change to its referral criteria, extending support to all young people up to their 18th birthday, effective Monday 28 October. This important update removes previous age restrictions that limited access to those under 16, or 16-17-year-olds who were either still in school,...
Landed Webinars
As part of activity for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, LANDED are facilitating two webinars. The first will take place on 26th November (3pm to 4.30pm) and will aim to raise awareness of sexting and how to raise the issue with children and young people. The second webinar will take place on...
Mindroom
Mindroom is a Scottish charity who support neurodivergent children and young people (up to the age of 25) and their parents and carers. No diagnosis is necessary to access Mindroom’s services and it is available across Scotland. As part of their service, Mindroom provides: You can find out more on the Mindroom website: www.mindroom.org