Special needs
Opportunity playgroups
Provide part-time care for children with physical or learning
disabilities alongside children without disabilities or special
needs. Staff generally have specialised training. A session is
normally two and a half hours. Ealing has two opportunity
playgroups:
Ealing Opportunity Playgroup, Enterprise Lodge, Stockdove Way,
Perivale.
Tel: (020) 8998 3466.
Southall Opportunity Playgroup, Spikesbridge Park Playcentre,
Spikesbridge Road, Southall.
Tel: (020) 8813 8220.
The log cabin
An adventure playground for children aged four-fifteen with
special needs who live in the borough of Ealing. Services provided
include holiday playschemes, after-school clubs and school
sessions. Transport can be provided to and from the Log Cabin.
Address: The Log Cabin, 259 Northfield Avenue, Ealing, London,
W5 4UA.
Tel: (020) 8840 3400
Fax: (020) 8840 6780
Email:
info@logcabin.org.uk.
Contact a family Ealing
Help for parents/carers of children up to 19 years of age
with disabilities or special needs. Assistance with grant and
benefit applications and advice on specific issues such as housing,
welfare rights etc. They also hold 'parent link' sessions for
parents on a wide range of topics and offer an opportunity to talk
to other parents.
Ealing Contact a Family, Room 3, 1st floor, St Andrews Church
Centre, Mount Park Road, Ealing, W5 2RS.
Tel: Stefan Wrana (020) 8810 8151.
Southall Contact a Family, St George's Community Centre, 8-12
Lancaster Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 1WW.
Tel: Mrs Gulshan Singhota (020) 8571 6381.
Ealing portage service
A home-visiting service for pre-school children who have
special needs.
Ealing Portage Service, Perceval House, Uxbridge Road,
Ealing.
Tel: Vina Mistry (020) 8825 7746.
Intuition PPIMS
(Intuition Parent Partnership, Inclusion and Mediation
Services)
A service for parents, pupils and schools that runs support
groups and provides advice on special educational needs.
1 Craven Road, Ealing W5 2UA
Tel: (020) 8840 3923
Email:
info@intuitionppims.co.uk
Fax: (020) 8840 7673
Pests (parents of Ealing self-help training
scheme)
A term time support group for families with children aged 0–5
years with disabilities and special needs. Sessions are run for
parents and children every Tuesday from 10:30am-12:30pm. A toy
library is available fortnightly and occasional parents-only
evening. Various social activities and occasional outings
during holiday times.
PESTS, Heller House Annex, 124 Norwood Road, Southall, UB2 4DX.
Tel: Marion Iles-Hunt (020) 8571 9954 or Maureen Browne (020)
8578 8794.
Short breaks for children with disabilities:
Ealing family link scheme and sitting service
This scheme provides short breaks for families, by
linking children with a disability or special need, aged up to 18,
to another family or individual, who provides care in their home.
Children go to their link carer's home for a few hours, overnight,
a weekend or longer, depending on their situation.
This service provides evening or daytime breaks for families of children with disabilities or special needs up to the age of 18. A sitter sits with the child and their siblings, in the child's home, for up to eight hours per month. To apply telephone Ealing social services on (020) 8825 5797. For further information visit EalingHELP.