Types of Respite
One-To-One Respite Care
Depending on the severity of your child’s needs you may be offered one to one respite care. This involves one of our registered nurses being allocated to provide respite care to an individual child, usually on a weekly basis for between 4 -6 hours. Over time, the nurse will get to know your child and the family very well and will provide respite at home, or when you are ready, in our beautiful respite centre where the children can make use of all our sensory equipment and rooms. One to one respite care will usually be between Monday and Friday 0900 -1630 as this is when the respite centre is open. However, this can be discussed, and a time arranged that is mutually convenient to the individual nurse and family.
One to one respite generally finishes once your child reaches school age. All the children have an annual review to assess their progress, stability of their condition and nursing needs.
Little Kites Respite Sessions
Little Kites Respite sessions run on weekdays at Kites Corner. Your child will be offered one day weekly, the sessions run between 9.00am & 3.30pm, you will be given an allocated slot for drop off and pick up. Little Kites respite sessions do not run during holiday club weeks. We will ensure that you have advance notice of any holiday club closure dates which will also be available on our parent calendar.
Little Kites Respite is run by our registered nurses, health care assistants & early years practitioners. Your child will get the opportunity to take part in lots of activities & to spend time in our sensory room, soft playroom & sensory garden.
Little Kites Respite finishes when a child reaches school age. All the children have an annual review to assess their progress, stability of their condition and nursing needs.
Overnight Respite
Overnight Respite finishes when a child reaches their sixth birthday. All the children have an annual review to assess their progress, stability of their condition and nursing needs.
Holiday Respite
Holiday respite sessions are for school age children up to their 12th birthday, who have previously received respite from the Trust.
We run Holiday respite sessions between 9.00am & 3.30pm, from Mondays to Thursday at Kites Corner, in most school holidays except for the Christmas break. You will be provided with an allocated slot for drop off and pick up.
We offer places on a rota system, unfortunately due to numbers we are not able to offer every child a place during every school holiday. We endeavour to offer a minimum of one session per child during the year.
Our play leader organises lots of activities for the Holiday Clubs & all your child’s needs will be met by our nursing team.
Family Stay & Play Sessions
