At Kirkdale St Lawrence CE we offer the following support to all of our families:

• Access to school-based family support worker
• Free breakfast club for all children
• Morning collection by school minibus for targeted children with breakfast provided when they get off the bus
• Trauma informed practise in school
• Access to sensory rooms for children
• Early signposting to outside support agencies
• Monthly Big Breakfast events  
• Emergency food/fuel vouchers
• Additional nursery hours for children with outside agency involvement
• Provision of uniform/clothing for residential trips
• Subsidise trips/residential holidays for all pupils
• Open door policy for parents to access staff 
• Half-termly coffee mornings with agency support 
• Regular SEN drop-ins and ability to contact SENCO for support to complete forms and applications including printing them off and explaining details
• Social Brokers on site to support families with correct access to benefits
• Letters sent home in home languages
• Contact via phone calls and texts to vulnerable families during school holidays
• Pre-loved clothing sales 
• Access to Seedlings, MHST and ADHD Foundation therapy within school
• Support from LFC Foundation - learning support and holiday food parcels
• Christmas Cracker Event - school open for all school families to have a social gathering including hot meal, food parcel to take home and pre-loved clothing stalls
• Help and support for parents to complete free school meal applications
• Help and support for parents to complete applications for primary and secondary schools
• Transport to and from sporting and off-site competitions
• Bus tickets to appointments
• Meetings arranged in school with outside agencies wherever possible
• References from senior staff to support passport and residency applications
• Supporting letters to housing associations