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Kent Portage Service

Kent Portage Service provides: Education support for families with pre-school children who have special educational needs and disabilities. Offering Home learning and  virtual session and tarrgeted group sessions. 
Telephone:
03000417704
E-mail:
kentportage@kent.gov.uk
Website:
Educational home visits for pre-school children
Age Range:
Ages 0-4
Disablities:
Profound, severe or complex

Kenward Trust

The Kenward Trust provides a safe and non-judgemental place to enable people to recover from the adverse effects of drug and alcohol misuse. The services offered includes a women only programme, referrals to specialist services such as counselling, rehab and shared accommodation with staff on…
Telephone:
01622 814187
E-mail:
reception@kenwardtrust.org.uk
Website:
https://www.kenwardtrust.org.uk/

Kingsdown House Residential

Kingsdown is a residential service supporting adults aged 18+ with autism spectrum conditions, moderate learning disabilities, mental health needs, complex needs including behaviours that may challenge and/or hearing impairments. Kingsdown seeks to enable each person to have the opportunity to build meaningful and active lifestyles.…
Telephone:
01634 717 084
E-mail:
info@achievetogether.co.uk
Website:
https://www.achievetogether.co.uk/

L'Arche Kent - Supported living service

In L’Arche Kent we believe that everybody – people with learning disabilities, assistants and Community friends – have need of one another. We all have something to give to, and to receive from, one another. Often this involves doing small, simple, day-to-day things: going for…
Telephone:
01227 643025
E-mail:
james.cuming@larche.org.uk
Website:
www.larchekent.org.uk

Laineys Care Farm Limited

Laineys Care Farm is a day service for adults with learning difficulties / additional needs based on an 11 acre Farm in Frittenden. We offer a wide range of farmng related activities including caring for our animals, horticulture, woodwork, art and craft, photography, site maintenance,…
Telephone:
07921917289
E-mail:
lainey@laineyscarefarm.com
Disablities:
Learning difficulty, Physical disability, Hearing impaired, Language difficulty, Behavioural, emotional and social development, Visually impaired, Communication and interaction, Autism, Physical sensory/medical, Behaviour and learning

LDC Supported Living

LDC is a family-run business where attention to detail and individual service is reflected in everything we do. We specialise in providing care for adults with learning disabilites in one of our supported living environments in the East Kent area. We develop bespoke services for…
Telephone:
01303 276000
E-mail:
admin@ldcdover.co.uk
Website:
https://www.ldccare.co.uk/

Leaps and Bounds - creative arts for adults with learning disabilities

Leaps and Bounds provide opportunities to adults with moderate learning disabilities to create arts and crafts. Some of activities offered include painting pottery (clay), cross stitching, latch rug making, crochet, card making, working with drift wood, simple sewing, fine beadwork and macramé. In doing so,…
Telephone:
01304 375297
E-mail:
debbieleapsandbounds@gmail.com
Website:
https://debbieleapsandbounds.weebly.com/
Disablities:
Learning difficulty, Physical disability, Hearing impaired, Language difficulty, Behavioural, emotional and social development, Severe learning difficulty, Visually impaired, Communication and interaction, Autism, Physical sensory/medical, Profound, severe or complex, Behaviour and learning

The Life Project Day Service - Blossoms Care Services Limited

LIFE Project Day Service The LIFE Project Day Service is a specialist day service for adults with enhanced support requirements, supporting individuals with Autism, complex needs and individuals with a dual diagnosis such as a learning disability and physical disability.  The Life Project supports people to:…
Telephone:
01795 422186
01795 422827
07796592359
E-mail:
blossoms.naomimccall@outlook.com
Website:
www.blossoms-care-services.com
Age Range:
Ages 16-18, 18-25 (Transition)
Disablities:
Learning difficulty, Physical disability, Severe learning difficulty, Autism, Profound, severe or complex

The Life Skills centre (Folkestone) Ltd

The Life Skills Centre runs Monday to Friday, closing on bank holidays and a short break over the Christmas period. We have a 15-seated minibus, which transports some of our service users to & from Life Skills & also is very handy for our off-site…
Telephone:
01303 221855
E-mail:
francescalawton@btconnect.com
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/
Age Range:
Ages 16-18, 18-25 (Transition)
Disablities:
Learning difficulty

Lifeways

Lifeways is the UK’s largest team of support professionals providing extraordinary support to adults in the community. Our 11,000 colleagues currently support almost 5,000 individuals who live in our 1,500 supported living and residential services across England, Scotland, and Wales We support adults with diverse…
Telephone:
0333 321 4881
E-mail:
LWSreferrals@Lifeways.co.uk
Website:
https://www.lifeways.co.uk/
Disablities:
Learning difficulty, Physical disability, Autism, Physical sensory/medical, Behaviour and learning

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