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Barnsley Youth Voice and Participation team have 3 youth voice forums, Barnsley SEND Youth forum is a platform for young people aged 11-25 who experience SEND. Members of the SEND Youth forum regularly meet with their peers and consult wider in educational settings to make sure SEND youth voice is represented and that the views/ideas of SEND young people are considered when key decision makers are implementing and designing services. Barnsley Youth Council is a platform where young people can get involved in youth voice activities and influence change, Care4us Council is a youth voice forum for looked after and/or care experienced young people.

Family Fund provides grants to families raising disabled and seriously ill children aged 17 and under. Our grants support a family, improve their well-being, increase quality of life and ease many of the pressures they often face. We are a registered charity and the UK’s largest provider of grants to families living on low incomes who are raising disabled or seriously ill children. Our grants bring practical and essential help that is often a lifeline to a family such as washing machines, fridges, bedding, specialist toys and much-need family breaks. With limited funding we try to help as many families as we can. We use our own eligibility criteria to ensure that we only help families in the most need.  We will consider helping a family once every 12 months and will usually look at a grant application 12 months from the date of the last grant. Depending on what a family have asked for, we will award a grant in a number of different ways. We work in partnership with a range of providers who help us to make our funding go further and help us to evidence that the grant awarded is used for the purpose it is […]