Other Links
There are many excellent special needs sites and related resources on the internet, here is a selection of some of the main sites. Please send us any additional web addresses you think should appear here (use Comments page to email us).
Education
Advisory Centre for Education www.ace-ed.org.uk
After 16 www.after16.org.uk
Association of Teachers' Websites www.byteachers.org.uk
BECTA www.becta.org.uk
Child Bereavement Trust www.childbereavement.org.uk
Children and Young Persons Unit www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force
and archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/seu
Cool Schools www.coolschools.org.uk/parents/index.htm
Connexions Service www.connexions.gov.uk
DIAL UK http://www.dialuk.org.uk
Department for Children, Schools and Families (formerly known as the DfES) www.dfes.gov.uk
Department for Children, Schools and Families pages on the education of sick children www.dfes.gov.uk/sickchildren
Department for Children, Schools and Families pages on the education of young people in public care www.dfes.gov.uk/incare
Educate the Children www.educate.org.uk
Good Practice guidance for teaching assistants www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=2759
NASS www.nasschools.org.uk
National Emotional Literacy Interest Group www.nelig.com
Ofsted www.ofsted.gov.uk
Plain Facts www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/NorahFry
Parents Online www.parentscentre.gov.uk
Participation Works www.participationworks.org.uk
QCA publications www.qca.org.uk
Science Museum www.nmsi.ac.uk
Sunflower Trust www.sunflowertrust.com
Surestart www.surestart.gov.uk
Talking Point - I Can helps children communicate www.talkingpoint.org.uk
US Dept. of Education www.ed.gov/
Health
The Help for Health Trust www.hfht.org/about.htm
NHS - local services www.nhs.uk
Sunflower Trust www.sunflowertrust.com
Fun
Network Rail - with journey caculator www.networkrail.co.uk
Structure and Evolution of the Universe universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/home.html
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds www.rspb.org.uk
Jokes www.yahooligans.com
Local Press
This is Gloucestershire www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
This is Plymouth www.thisisplymouth.co.uk
This is Cornwall www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
This is South Devon www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
General Information
4 Nations Child Policy Network www.childpolicy.org.uk
Audit Commission www.audit-commission.gov.uk
Radio station guide windowsmedia.microsoft.com/mg/Radio.asp
Local Government LEA site index www.oultwood.com
Government Office for the SW www.gosw.gov.uk
UK online www.direct.gov.uk
National Family and Parenting Institute www.nfpi.org
Parenting UK www.parentinguk.org
(The Parenting Education & Support Forum)