Youth Services

Awesome Nights is a weekly youth club for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) from the ages for 13 to 18-years old.
The group chooses its own weekly activities on a Wednesday, usually between 7-9pm. Popular activities include swimming, meals together, trips out, movie nights, games, crafts, and themed activities at our centre in West Moors.

Innovate Dorset is an Alternative Provision offering the following services to children and young people-:
Mentoring, Tutoring, Listening Service for Young People, Holiday Programmes and Bespoke Support.
We strongly believe in meeting the needs of the young people and building a programme that supports their individual needs and supports them in their journey to adulthood.

SENDiass4BCP is the information, advice and support service for children and young people who have special educational needs or disabilities, and their parent/carers, living in Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole.

We can:
• Provide you with free, accessible, confidential and impartial information, advice and support based on special educational needs and disability (SEND) law, about education, health and social care matters relating to SEND
• Help you to prepare for meetings and go with you, if we are available to do so
• Help with filling out forms and understanding reports
• Support you if your child has SEND and is excluded from school or college
• Help with asking questions in school or college, if you don’t think your child or young person is progressing or receiving the right type of support
• Help you with understanding your rights around the Education Health and Care Needs Assessment process and having an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
• Offer information on BCP Council processes for resolving disagreements and support you through mediation and appeals processes
• Put you in touch with other services who may be able to help
• Take the time to listen to you

We don’t currently have an office – the address given below is purely for post.