Welcome to APTCOO in Bassetlaw - Tall Trees SEND Family Hub

About Us

APTCOO in Bassetlaw operates through our SEND Family Hub at Tall Trees in Retford and provides a range of high quality, specialist support services to families of children and young people with Special Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).

Families are able to self-refer via telephone, email or social media together with GPs; paediatric consultants; school nurse, SENCO or any other family support services.

Every single family is different, our experienced coordinators will get to know a family in order that we can tailor our support service to individual needs, wants and choices.

We equip families with the tools and information they need to feel more confident of where they are now, and where they are headed in the future.

A quiet space is always offered for those who need some down time to manage feelings that may be running high or regulate, and our staff are always on hand to support parents and young people through these difficult times.

Family Support Coordinators work with families to:

Support parents/carers to navigate through a complicated system
Increase confidence in parents/carers abilities to feel involved, listened to, understood without a battle
Create resources tailored to a family including siblings, grandparents and the extended family

We can help you:

Make peer connections in your local area
Manage the emotional and physical demands of caring for a child with a disability
Access SEND services in your local area
Find further support information specific to your child’s needs
Explore the cause, effect and impact of trauma

We operate through a single point of access, providing different types of support at different levels of engagement as families need it. This means that families can step into support when life becomes complex in any given areas and feel welcomed in a place they belong. Families enjoy and benefit from learning more about themselves, making friends and feeling valued.

APTCOO in Bassetlaw also offer the following support programmes:

ASD Sensory Therapies

Sensory processing difficulties can change how a person responds to changes in their own body, the environment and how they interact with it and others around them. They may have difficulties registering or processing sensory input which may result in them seeking out or avoiding particular types of stimuli.

Parents and carers will be supported to understand and engage in open discussions to establish their needs, wants and choices to build resilience in their family, to equip them to be able to manage the challenges of everyday life and to enable them to have greater choice and control over the decisions that affect their family.

Family Workshops

APTCOO in Bassetlaw delivers Family Workshops that is bespoke personalised and evidence based.

The aim is to provide early support and evidence-based interventions with families of children and young people displaying behaviours that cause concern, and where there is no formal diagnosis of ASD and/or ADHD, but where behaviours may be indicative or characteristic of these conditions.

The Programme offers an introduction followed by a flexible and personalised support plan that will address:

ASD and ADHD and behaviours that are challenging
EHCPs and the Local Offer
Sensory overload, tools and techniques
Sleep deprivation
Family needs, wants and choices

SEND Social Prescribing

The Social Prescribing service will be provided to families in Bassetlaw. Individuals will either be seen face to face in an appropriate setting or virtually via Teams or telephone. The Social Prescriber will triage and signpost parents and carers to access non-clinical support services from Bassetlaw Integrated Care Board (ICB), the Local Authority, voluntary organisations and community groups in the local area. The full range of Voluntary and Community Services available will be explored and matched to the needs of the family, with the view to improving their health and wellbeing.

For more information on the Neurodevelopmental Referral Pathway for Children and Young People please click here.

For more information 'phone 01623 629 902 or click here to visit our Facebook page.

Below are some useful links to external organisations:

Feedback from our families

Myself and my husband have found the meeting great, so much useful information.

In our opinion the meeting itself was beneficial and we are very grateful to have been able to access it.

Excellent service.

For the first time ever I feel normal, like I'm not a bad mum and also know I'm no longer alone.

Can’t thank this team enough and look forward to learning more myself and helping my daughter.

These guys are just incredible. They are there to help and support our whole family whenever we need them.

It’s so nice to speak to people who truly understand your worries, thought processes and stresses. My little boy is on the pathway of being assessed for autism and these guys are such a great support network.

Thank you for reaching out to us and offering your expertise, support, understanding and knowledge. Truly, we are very lucky to have you guys available at the end of the phone.