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The Gateway Card and Gateway Card+ are free cards for children and young people between the ages of 0-17 years who live in the Hampshire County Council area. If you are a parent of a child or young person who needs additional support to attend community…
Life Begins at Home
Every family wants a home that is safe and secure, with enough space to live healthily and happily. There are often straightforward and affordable interventions that families can put in place to adapt their current housing to create an environment where they can manage their…
Light Therapy
Light therapy or phototherapy consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using different types of equipment (such as lasers, light-emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light—by a so-called light box). The light is administered for a prescribed…
Living on the border of Hampshire
Neighbouring authorities You may live in Hampshire but access services or schools in another authority or you may live in another authority but access services and schools in Hampshire. In either of the above situations you may need to be aware of our neighbouring authorities’…
Local Implementation Groups
The LIG (Local Implementation Group) is a forum for people with learning disabilities, carers and professionals who meet once a month for two hours (except in August) in their local community. The forum is a co-produced Partnership, for adults living in Hampshire and those preparing…
Local Offer (Local Authority) Support Group
The Local Offer (Local Authority) Support Group consists of 23 local authorities (19 of whom form part of the Department for Education's South East Regional Network). One of the main objectives of the Local Offer group is to share resources, ideas and approaches and conduct peer…
Long-term health conditions at school
If your child has a long-term health condition, such as asthma or diabetes, talk to their school about how their condition will be managed during the school day. There are more than a million children in the UK who have a long-term, or even lifelong, illness and need medicines…
Makaton
We all want our children to be able to communicate. Makaton is a system that is used with some children who struggle in this area. Makaton is a language programme using signs and symbols to help people to communicate. It is designed to support spoken…
Makaton in Early Years
Makaton is a language programme using speech, signs and symbols which provides basic communication and everyday vocabulary which helps to develop language and literacy skills.Using Makaton helps adults and children who may have communication difficulties to develop their basic communication skills. These basic skills are…
