The room is part of the town centre library, just a few yards away from disabled car parking spaces, and is available to visitors of all ages with learning difficulties, physical impairments, or children under-five.
Multi-sensory rooms have been shown to help development of the senses, hand eye coordination, promote language development and encourage relaxation. The Stafford room includes fibre-optic wall carpet, an interactive bubble tube, music-creating hand wall, laser projector with pin spot and mirrorball, and an audio-visual touchscreen.
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Hundreds of pupils are taking part in a major project to raise awareness of asthma by producing health information booklets for other schoolchildren.
Nine and 10-year-olds from five Stoke-on-Trent primaries have been researching and designing the newspaper-style flyers so their schools can use them as teaching resources.
Health experts also hope it will drive home the message to young asthma sufferers that they need to keep taking their medication during the six-week school break
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As part of its Christmas campaign to highlight the urgent need for foster families, Staffordshire County Council’s fostering service has set out to bust some of the commonly held myths putting people off.
Titled ‘The 12 Myths of Fostering’, and building on the success of a previous campaign, a series of 12 short cartoons will air online in the run up to Christmas.
The call out from Shropshire’s 0-25 SEND Board, which includes representatives from education, health and social care and voluntary organisations, is for local children and young people aged 0-25 with SEND, and their families, to complete the online survey
Shropshire Council is consulting on a new Early Help delivery model for children, young people and their families. The decision to consult was made by Cabinet on 17 January 2018.
Nationally there is a move to understand if Early Help is available for the most complex families early enough. Families in Shropshire tell us that they are having to meet with individual Early Help services, who deal with individual children within the family.
Plans to deliver children’s centre services from seven new family hub bases across Shropshire were agreed by Shropshire Council’s Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday 26 September 2018.
The decision means that services will be delivered from seven key buildings instead of the existing 26 buildings, namely:
The Centre – Oswestry
Sunflower House – Shrewsbury
Crowmoor Centre – Shrewsbury
Rockspring Centre – Ludlow
the Youth Centre – Bridgnorth
Raven House – Market Drayton
Plans to educate more special needs pupils closer to home are at the heart of a new plan under consultation.
Parents, carers and schools are taking part in a countywide consultation over the future of Staffordshire’s special educational needs and disability (SEND) strategy for children and young people aged 25 and under
Shropshire Council has agreed to increase its provision of residential accommodation for children in its care, by investing in the purchase, adaptation and fit-out of up to three new properties in the county.
The proposal was approved by councillors at a meeting of full Council yesterday, 28 February 2019.
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Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
The proposed North Midlands Regional Adoption & Permanency Partnership is backed by the Department for Education and involves working with Shropshire Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Telford and Wrekin Council.
Children from Staffordshire will remain the responsibility of the county council, but the joint project will provide a wider range of prospective adopters and carers to find the right home.