1. Get in touch

2. The charity for families with disabled children
The charity for families with disabled children. We understand that life with a disabled child brings unique challenges, and we exist to help families feel valued, supported, confident and informed.
Our vision
Is that families with disabled children feel valued and are strong, confident and able to make the decisions that are right for them.

3. What do we do Freephone helpline – SEND, welfare rights, education
Resources and publications
Medical directory rare conditions
Link similar families – makingcontact.org
Support groups
Workshops – sleep, resilience, behaviour etc.
Advice, information and support
Campaigning, research & fundraising

5. Contact and Parent Carer Participation
Contact has had the Department of Education contract to support all the Parent Carer Forums in England (PCFs) since 2008.
Every PCF gets a grant of £15,000 p/a and Contact administer and monitor this grant.
Contact provide a regional advisor for every PCF. We provide information and advice, training, and support to each region. Contact also support the National Network of Parent Carer Forums.

6. Organised into 9 regional areas with a national Steering Group
National Network of Parent Carer Forums
‘Our Strength is our Shared Experience’
Parent Carer Forums are pan disability and open to all parent carers of children and YP 0-25 years
152 forums in England with over 85,000 members sharing their experiences
Organised into 9 regional areas with a national Steering Group
The London Region has 33 forums

7. National Network of Parent Carer Forums
‘Our Strength is our Shared Experience’

8. If you want to find out if a pair of shoes
National Network of Parent Carer Forums
‘Our Strength is our Shared Experience’
If you want to find out if a pair of shoes
fit, ask the person who is wearing them,
not the person who made them.

9. How Parent Carer Forums have positively changed
services in their area ?
National Network of Parent Carer Forums
‘Our Strength is our Shared Experience’
Havering - Adapted Bike Scheme
Richmond - ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ Parents Handbook
Bromley - Self Assessment Tool for Short Breaks/Respite Care
Wandsworth - Forum Parent Reps on Resource Panels
5 South London Forums (Merton, Sutton, Richmond, Wandsworth & Kingston) – Autism Assessment Threshold
SEN Home to School Transport – Secretary of State calls for review of legislation

10. Heather Tarbuck Parent Participation Advisor London ( North East & South) Contact / Contact Freephone Helpline