Family Support and Advocacy Service

Supporting parents and carers of children and adults with a learning disability

Our Family Support and Advocacy Service offers independent advice, information and support to parents and carers of children and adults who have a learning disability.

Our Services

• Open Door Project - for parents of 0-5 year olds with any special or additional needs.
• Family Support Service - for parents/carers of school age children and young people (5-19 years).
• Pragati Project - our Asian Families development project
• Carers Support and Outreach Worker - for family carers of adults with learning disabilities (a joint post with Barnet Carers Centre).

We Can Offer:

• The opportunity for you to discuss the needs of your son/daughter.
• Attendance and support at meetings.
• Support when writing letters to the Local Authority or preparing for meetings.
• Help to access services.
• Help with the statementing process for special educational needs.
• Help to access disability benefits.
• Telephone advice and information and /or home visits.

We Also Offer:

• Open Door's weekly drop-in for parents of under 5's, now on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• A fortnightly Saturday club for Asian adults with a learning disability (Ronak)
• Training for parents e.g. parenting training, sexuality workshops, school funding and SEN matters (jointly organised with Parent Partnership)
• Young people (13-25 years) have the opportunity to talk, in confidence, to our Connexions Personal Adviser.

We work in partnership with:

IPOP, Homestart, Parent Partnership,
London Borough of Barnet, Connexions, Barnet Carers Centre, Parents Groups, BVSC and others.

We can be contacted:

by phone on 020 8349 3842, by fax on 020 8349 2192,
by e-mail projectsupport@barnetmencap.org.uk

Address - 35 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London N3 1RT