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Our disability services provide disabled children and their families with residential and short break care, help families deal with challenging behaviour, provide specialist education and leisure opportunities, and offer innovative programmes such as the Access to IT project, which uses information technology to enhance disabled children’s confidence and their educational and social inclusion.

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When you’ve spent your whole adult life caring for yourself, the last thing you want to do is give up your independence. Even when everyday activities start to become more of a challenge. Lucky then that our fully qualified and quality assured Care Workers, Support Workers and Nurses are on hand to ensure you get the best quality of care in the very best place – your own home.

Children and Families Brochure
Includes information on the services we provide for the care of children and their families.

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* Our services:
* We support people with:
* Assisted/independent living
* Acquired brain injury
* Convalescent / Intermediate Care
* Autism and Asperger's
* Day-time activities and care
* Dementia including Alzheimer's Disease
* Domiciliary care and support
* Huntington's disease
* Nursing care for older people
* Learning disabilities
* Palliative care
* Mental health needs
* Registered hospitals
* Minimally conscious/ventilator care
* Rehabilitation services
* Motor Neurone Disease
* Residential care for older people
* Multiple Sclerosis
* Respite care and short breaks
* Neuro-rehabilitation
* Supported living
* Parkinson's Disease
* Physical disabilities
* Sensory impairment
* Young Onset Dementia

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Butterwick Hospice at Stockton and Butterwick Hospice at Bishop Auckland are both adult hospices offering a range of services. Butterwick House Children's Hospice serves life limited children and their loved ones across the north east. Please click the link to learn more about either adult or children's services.

Adult Hospices
Butterwick Hospice provides compassionate care free of charge to people over the age of 18 and their loved ones from its Hospices in Stockton on Tees and Bishop Auckland.

The Children's Hospice
Butterwick House Children's Hospice provides day, respite and end of life care, family support, complementary therapies and bereavement care to families from Teesside, County Durham, North Yorkshire and Wearside.

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In the interests of social welfare to provide facilities, advice, assistance, education and recreational and leisure time activities for young people up to the age of 18 living in the counties of Hampshire or Surrey or in the area of Greater London who have need by reason of their age, sex, disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances with the object of improving the conditions of life of such young persons and developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to better participate in society."

Change of Scene is a charity set up to make available a place of tranquility and positive experiences for children who feel they would benefit from a change of scene.

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Cherry Trees provides home from home respite care for children and young people with severe learning and physical disabilities. We recognise that these children are best looked after at home but, because of their very special needs, they require very special care, often 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Set in the peaceful village of East Clandon, near Guildford, Cherry Trees provides a high quality service within a relaxed and caring setting.

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Dame Hannah Rogers Trust provides education, therapy, care and respite for children and young people with profound physical disabilities

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Smithers offers an overnight stay and day home for children. Short breaks help parents cope with the challenges of providing full time care at home.
Shapes offers flexible domiciliary care for children, at times when it is most needed. It helps young people access community-based activities such as youth clubs.
Project My Time gives children with severe disabilities the same leisure and fun opportunities as their peers can enjoy.

Barnabas a well equipped day opportunities setting where adults can make new friends and acquire new skills and experiences.
Supported Living enables people with physical and learning disabilities, often profound, to live independently in their own homes.

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Holly Bank school, with an attached 52 week children’s home, which provide flexible day, residential and respite placements tailored to individual needs,
post 16 education, both on site, in our Vision Project for older learners and in the community through local colleges,
opportunities for adult residential provision in high quality community housing within Hollybank Trust.

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Jigsaw Care Services Plus offer an introductory recruitment service that allows you to find your ideal Personal Assistant or Special Needs Nanny. We then offer all the support you need to employ them at times and dates convenient for you and your family, paying for your PA/Nanny via Direct Payments, Individual Budgets, DLA or similar.

A charity providing specialist services for disabled people in the North East of England, The Percy Hedley Foundation promotes the rights, needs and aspirations of disabled children and adults through specialist, high quality services.

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Sebastian’s Action Trust is creating a unique facility that will offer respite holidays to very sick children and their families, enabling precious time to be spent together.

We give practical support in many different forms to children battling with life-limiting illnesses and provide meaningful assistance at critical times to families exhausted by the stresses of hospital life and their child’s gruelling treatment.

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Short breaks provide opportunities for disabled children to have enjoyable experiences which help them become more independent and form friendships outside their family. At the same time their
families get a regular break from the demands of caring for a disabled child.

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St Cuthberts Care has, for over 60 years, provided help and support to the region's most vulnerable and needy.

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