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Tel: 01524 581200
Specialist Teaching Service - Inclusion Service
Lancashire County Council
PO Box 100 County Hall
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 0LD
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Early years sensory impairment support helps pre-school children with hearing, vision or multisensory impairments.
It is an educational service provided by specialist teachers with qualifications in hearing, vision or multisensory impairment.
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The service supports children aged 0-4, from birth to the end of the summer term before they begin reception.
Children are eligible if they are diagnosed with a:
- hearing impairment, and have hearing aids
- visual impairment that is not corrected by glasses
- combined hearing and visual impair...
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Lancashire Portage Service - East
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Tel: 01254 220553
Specialist Teaching Service - Inclusion Service
Lancashire County Council
PO Box 100 County Hall
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 0LD
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Portage is an educational home-visiting service for pre-school children who have significant special educational needs and disabilities.
We support parents and carers in their own home to develop their child's play and learning and promote positive outcomes. Parents and carers know their childre...
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This service is for pre-school children who have significant special educational needs and disabilities from birth to the time they are eligible for funded childcare for 3 year olds.
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British Red Cross North Central & West Lancs District Office
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Tel: 0344 871 8000
Pittman Court
Pittman Way
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 9ZG
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Services include an emergency card scheme for anyone who looks after adults or children who are dependant on them because of illness or disability.
Care in the home, transport services, first aid courses, and medical equipment hire also available.
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Headway Preston & Chorley
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Tel: 01772 789 323
Newlands House
60 Chain House Lane
Whitestake
Preston
Lancashire
PR4 4LG
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We aim to provide a wide range of support to meet the individual needs of people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers and promote awareness of acquired brain injury by means of information, advice and training throughout our local community.
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Pukar Disability Resource Centre
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Tel: 01772 822700
PR1 3XP
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The Pukar Disability Resource Centre aims to work with disabled people, their carers and families to maintain their independence, and to make an accessible centre in Preston city centre, where disabled adults and their carers can access information, resources, education and training, using train...
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Black and minority ethnic disabled people and their families
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Disability Equality North West Preston
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Tel: 01772 558863
103-104 Church Street
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 3BS
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Disability Equality North West is a Disabled People's Organisation (DPO) that started in 1996. The organisation is run and controlled by disabled people.
The main aim is to “further the human rights of disabled people across the North West” and we provide a number of user-led services to support...
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Disabled people, their relatives and carers
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Gentle Approach To Cancer Association Preston Group
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Tel: 01772 865024
PR2 6YQ
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Advice and counselling for cancer patients and their families: diet, lifestyle, positive thinking, stress control, and relaxation, as well as a range of complementary therapies.
In Preston we meet on the 2nd Saturday of every month in the Ribblebank Resource Centre.
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Preston Care and Repair
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Tel: 01772 204096
Suite 4, Hamilton House
Leyland Business Park
Centurion Way
Leyland
Lancashire
PR25 3GR
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Preston Care and Repair is a local not-for-profit organisation providing practical support and independent advice regarding home repairs and adaptations since 1993. We support people over 18 with a long-term health condition that affects their mobility or independence in the home; Over 60; or any...
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Over 18 with a long-term health condition that affects their mobility or independence in the home.
Over 60.
Or any other vulnerable person.
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Parkinson's UK Southport and District Branch
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Tel: 0344 225 9846
Formby Methodist Church Hall
8 Elbow Lane
Formby
Merseyside
L37 4AF
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Offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
Also organise regular events and social activities - join and meet other people affected by Parkinson's in your area.
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People with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
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Age UK Lancashire
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Tel: 0300 303 1234
Wellbeing Centre
Moorgate
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4RY
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We believe that later life should be valued and fulfilling. Through the services and support we provide, we aim to promote independence, enhance health and well-being and enable older people to access the information they need to make informed decisions about their lives.
Age is different for e...
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Older people 50 + and their carers
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