Resources and useful links

Changing Places provides information and guidance about accessible toilets and changing rooms nationally.

One thing that brings all legal specialists together is the passion and will to help people access the support they need. But, sometimes it’s not as accessible as we’d like. The Irwin Mitchell Night School is a free and informative webinar series that offers a friendly and helpful introduction to the legal world running throughout Autumn 2023.

Independent Parental Special Education Advice (IPSEA) offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We also provide training on the SEND legal framework to parents and carers, professionals and other organisations.

Kith and Kids supports families who have children with autism or disabilities to overcome their social isolation. They provide a variety of volunteer-supported projects and services, offering opportunities to learn new skills, make friends, go out and have fun.

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people and their families. Their website provides information, resources and support.

There are over 150 Phab Clubs across England and Wales providing accessible holiday programme activities. Phab inspires and supports children, young people and adults with and without disabilities to make more of life together – by breaking down community barriers, reducing social isolation, and creating opportunities for disabled people to enjoy the same activities and challenges as, and alongside, those without a disability.

Haringey Council provides lots of practical advice and guidance for young people in Haringey who will soon be adults. Their website includes information on getting a job, where to live, getting the right benefits, managing your health, transition and more.

Haringey Council provides lots of practical advice and guidance for young people in Haringey who will soon be adults. This document includes information on getting a job, where to live, getting the right benefits, managing your health, transition and local services that can help young people in Harngey prepare for adulthood.

Scope is a disability equality charity that provides practical advice and emotional support to disabled people and their families. They do this through a dedicated helpline, an online community and a range of employment services and community engagement programmes.

Tree of Hope helps children and young people with a disability or illness, who are under the age of 18, by supporting their families to fundraise to pay for specialist care that is not freely available through the NHS. Fundraising through Tree of Hope provides donor reassurance, allows families to collect 25% gift aid on any eligible donations and offers specialist fundraising support. They can help fundraise for items and support such as: therapy, specialist equipment, operations and treatments, house adaptations, and sensory gardens.

Choosing My First Job will help young people understand that work is for everyone, that finding the right job feels brilliant and there are lots of different ways of getting there. This book is part of a mini series about moving towards work.

By telling the whole story in pictures, each story from Books Beyond Words gives people the chance to work together and explore different types of situations.

Glory Wants a Job follows a woman’s journey through planning, vocational profiling and a working interview, to settled employment and the social, financial and wellbeing benefits it brings. This book, and the different situations it explores, can help someone think about starting a career, their own strengths and interests that could be part of a job, and what finding and being in work might be like for them.

By telling the whole story in pictures, each story from Books Beyond Words gives people the chance to work together and explore different types of situations.

Funded by Department for Education (DfE), Preparing for Adulthood provides expertise and support to local authorities and their partners to embed preparing for adulthood from the earliest years. They work to ensure that young people with SEND achieve paid employment, independent living, housing options, good health, friendships, relationships and community inclusion.

The Life and Work Charter will explain each step of the Life and Work Programme at my AFK. It will tell you what to expect from us at each stage, as well as what we will need from you. Feel free to read through this document with your family or support worker so they can learn more about the Life and Work Programme at AFK as well.

This leaflet from ACAS provides employees with basic information about bullying and harassment, summarises the responsibilities of employers and points to sources of further information and advice.

This guidance from ACAS offers employers, senior managers, line managers, HR personnel, employees, employee/trade union representatives and job applicants an understanding of how disability discrimination can occur in the workplace, how it can be dealt with and how to reduce the chance of future discrimination.

This leaflet from ACAS is intended to give general guidance about the main legal considerations which may arise when employers or employees wish to change (or amend) the terms of a contract of employment between them.

Are you a disabled job seeker? The British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) has lots of information to help you in your search for the right job, whatever your disability.