SEND Directory

Shout provides free, confidential support 24/7 via text.

Shout is the UK's first free 24/7 texting service for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere. It is available in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Text SHOUT to 85258 in the UK to text with a trained Crisis Volunteer.

Their website also offers a range of online resources and support, including:

• Autism and mental health
• Deafness and mental health
• Bullying and mental health
• Exam results and mental health
• LGBTQ+ and mental health

Kooth is a free, safe, and anonymous online mental health and wellbeing service available to all young people in Haringey aged 11-25. 

YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity, fighting for a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health. It provides help and advice for young people, their parents, and professionals working with them.

Help and advice for young people:

• Mental health conditions
• Feelings
• Coping with life
• Supporting a friend
• Medications 
• Guide to getting mental health support

Help and advice for parents:

The UK's leading charity for autistic people and their families provides support, guidance, advice, and more.

Their advice and guidance section has a wide range of information about autism, including diagnosis, behaviour, communication, loneliness, sensory differences, mental health, benefits and money, education, and more.

• Visit the National Autistic Society website

The Haringey School Nursing Service is an NHS-run service of Registered School Nurses, Registered Community Nurses and School Nurse Assistants.

Save money on NHS prescriptions by prepaying for them. You can pay a set price for prescriptions for 3 or 12 months, no matter how many you need.

Grants and Holidays for Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Serious Illnesses.

The RNIB Charity provides information, advice, and support to blind and partially sighted people across the UK. It has a hotline, a Sight Loss Advice Service, community connections, wellbeing services, and more.

Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind or who have complex disabilities to communicate.

They provide tailored support, advice, and information as well as specialist services to all deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them.

In addition, they support people who have single sensory impairment with additional needs.