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Advocacy: Youth-led advocacy is about supporting young people to speak up and helping them actively take part in the decisions that affect them. This UNICEF toolkit will give you the skills and information you need to stand up for what is important to you.
Autism: A quick guide from ‘NICE’ for young people and their families about assessment and diagnosis. Top Tips and practical resources for autistic young people from ‘Ambitious About Autism’. Molehill Mountain is an app to help autistic people understand and self-manage anxiety. You can use Molehill Mountain to explore the causes and symptoms of anxiety.
Autism Support: Our collection of videos and blogs, all written or featuring autistic young people themselves, explain diagnosis, autistic identity and everything that surrounds it. Find more information on their website.
Deaf support: The Buzz website provides support to deaf young people and includes information about corona virus discussing top tips for staying positive, corona virus and depression, managing change and also ways to work from home.
EHC Plans - As part of their work, young people's advisory group EPIC created a factsheet for young people to explain what an Education, Health and Care Plan is and how it works. There is a video explaining what EHC Plans are. Amy, a member of Council for Disabled Children’s youth advisory group FLARE, has created an incredible resource to support children and young people who have an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP).
Employment - A toolkit to support autistic young people into their first experiences of employment, further education or training.
Healthcare: You have rights when making decision and choices about your healthcare. This amazing website has lots of videos of young people talking about their experiences and great information on how to use the NHS and take control of the decisions that affect you.
Independent Advice and Support (IASS): Westminster IASS can help you with questions about school, college, training, healthcare and getting the right support and home, school or in the workplace. Watch the video which explains what IASS is. There are IASS services in both and Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.
Jargon: Jargon busters can help when the words you are reading don’t quite make sense or contain a lot of abbreviations. They are like mini dictionaries and explain diffuclt language in a way which is easier to understand.
- Health Jargon buster looks at language around healthcare and related services.
- Policy Jargon buster looks at language around policy, the SEND reforms and strategic decision-making.
Legal: The Youth Legal and Resource Centre in Wandsworth has resources about your rights, including fact sheets about various situations.
Personal Budgets - KIDS have created a young person’s guide to Personal Budgets. Watch the video here
Post 16 Support: A document to support young people aged 16-25 years with advice and opportunities including, training, employment, mentoring, careers advice, volunteering and more!
- RBKC residents click here to download
- Westminster residents click here to download
The Local Offer - Find out more about the Local Offer and how it works by reading this factsheet.
Transition - Moving onto secondary school can be an anxious and exciting time, check out Young Minds for some top tips and BBC Bitesize for a collection of videos.