BDCFT Children's Learning Disability Team - Craven

03/11/2025

📣Join us for a our next Parent Workshop on Sleep.
Offering advice and strategies to improve and manage sleep challenges.

📅 Date: 21 November 2025
📍 Location: Fisher Medical Centre, Community Hub Room, Coach Street, BD23 1EU
⏰ Time: 12.30 to 14.30

👉 Register now! Using the email address included in the poster

08/10/2025

📣 Last Few Places Remaining!

Join us for our Parent/Carer Workshop on Behaviour Strategies & Support – a practical and supportive session designed to help you feel more confident in managing behaviour challenges.

🗓 Friday 17th October
🕧 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
📍 Fisher Medical Centre, Skipton

Don't miss out – this is a great opportunity to share experiences, gain advice and connect with others.

📧 Email us now to book your spot!

07/10/2025

🎉✨ We are excited to share the SENDiVERSE Festival 2025 programme of events which is now live! ✨🎉 The Leap

Get involved in a week-long celebration of imagination, creativity, and joy led by children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) across the Bradford district! 💛🌈

🗓️ Monday 27th October – Friday 31st October

🎪 Over 50+ activities happening across the district, from pumpkin carving to silent discos, circus skills, Bollywood dance, sensory storytelling, and creative food fun!

🎆 And don’t miss the BIG BANG celebration on Saturday 1st November (11am–4pm)
FREE family day full of interactive performances, workshops, face painting, sensory play, stalls, and outdoor adventures.

🎨 PLUS: Enter the Design a Sculpture Competition!
🧠 Open to ages 4–25 with SEND
📅 Deadline: 18th October

👉 Start planning your SENDiVERSE week now (link to website in comments below 👇 )

Let’s celebrate fun, creativity and togetherness — see you there! 🎉💫



Parents' Forum for Bradford & Airedale Airedale & Wharfedale Autism Resource Thinking BIG Shipley SEN Parenting Network Bradford Sendiass LS29 Special Needs Support Group West Yorkshire CANN for Parent/Carers SNOOP, Special Needs Objective Outreach Project Bradford Phab Club ASpire supporting the autism community SEND Salaam Bradford West Family Hub Bradford South Family Hub Keighley and Shipley Family Hub Bradford East Family Hub Bradford People First People First Keighley and Craven yorkshire ADHD group

06/10/2025

🍂 Pumpkin Olympics coming to Farcliffe Family Hub! Bradford West Family Hub

📅 31 October
📍 Farcliffe Family Hub, 56 Toller Lane, BD8 8QH
🪙 FREE
Book your places now! Phone 01274 436700.

Join the team for relaxed autumn games and crafts – take home a medal and a free nature kit!

This event is for families with learning disabled and/or autistic children of all ages. It is an inclusive event - brothers and sisters also welcome, to involve the whole family. Parents and carers please stay for the full session.

This is a SENDiVERSE Festival event with Mind the Gap and Bradford West’s Our Patch team (part of the Bradford 2025 City of Culture).

More SENDiVERSE events are in planning in Family Hubs across the Bradford district. Follow Bradford East Family Hub Bradford South Family Hub Keighley and Shipley Family Hub

You can also follow SENDiVERSE Festival organisers

03/09/2025

Puberty can be a confusing and challenging time - especially for children and young people with Learning Disabilities.
NSPCC Learning has created some easy to navigate resources, offering guidance and practical tips on how to support children and young people through puberty. 👧👦 Included are some useful visual resources to support discussions. 💬

Resources for parents and carers with advice, guidance and practical tips on how to support children and young people who have learning disabilities through puberty.

01/09/2025

The Children's Learning Disability teams' next Parent/ Carer workshop will focus on support and advice around accessing health, including: annual health checks, hospital passports and transition.

Date: 19th September 2025 🗓
Time: 12.30 to 14.30 ⏰
Location: Fisher Medical Centre, Community Hub Room, Skipton 🏫

To book your place, please email the team using the details in the poster 🙂

11/08/2025

📣Help to design your new Airedale hospital 📣 Have the opportunity to contribute your experiences, ideas and suggestions for improvement. Below are the event details, to book on please use the contact details within the poster.

1. 📍 Skipton Town Hall
🗓️ 8th September
🕙 10:00am to 12:30pm

2. 📍 Keighley Healthy Living Centre
🗓️ 11th September
🕕 6:00pm to 8:30pm

3. 💻 Online Workshop
🗓️ 16th September
🕡 6:30pm to 8:00pm