Short Breaks and Inclusion Service
Our Short Breaks and Inclusion services give young people the opportunity to take part in fulfilling and fun activities on weekends and during school holidays. This also help carers with their own life-balance by providing breaks from their care responsibilities.
We provide services to help you excel! From learning computer skills to help you in the workplace, to fun activities with 1:1 support including outdoor pursuits. Take a look at what we offer.
Direct Access Short Breaks
Direct access short breaks are accessible to any young person aged between 8 to 18 with additional needs who have a formal diagnosis, an EHCP or attend a specialist provision.
Short breaks offer families additional support during school holidays as well as developing new skills and relationships for the young people. Activities are focused around outdoor and adventure activities.
Direct Access Short Breaks meet at Devonport Park Activity Centre on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays (During school holidays). Each session costs £15 per person.
Adventure Breaks
Adventure Breaks provides short break activities for children and young people aged between 8 to 18 with complex additional needs.
Adventure activities are offered including moorland walking, rock climbing, canoeing, gorge walking, paddle boarding, orienteering, fire lighting and den building. The provision aims to encourage independence and develop life skills.
The Adventure Break groups meet at Devonport Park every Saturday and Thursday/ Fridays during school holidays, 10:30am-3:30pm. A referral is needed from the local authority as part of a funded support package.
Inclusion Service
Routeways are brokered by the local authority to allocate additional funding to support children with additional needs to access mainstream social and leisure activities.
Families who are not eligible for a funded package of support can access up to 10 days of 1:1 support per year to be used throughout the school holidays. Families are eligible if they meet the following criteria: receive DLA, have an EHCP, attend a specialist provision or have a formal diagnosis. If you would like to discuss your eligibility and to find out how the service works, please give us a call in the office on (01752) 300700.
This service is held at our Devonport Park & The Beckly Centre and is available for ages 18 and above.
Routes into Work
Routes into Work offers knowledgeable and experienced mentors to provide tailored advice and guidance to support adults of all ages* who are finding it particularly challenging to secure regular employment or to get into training.
Intensive support is offered to help break-down the barriers to work, training or education. This service aims to help unemployed individuals, and in particular people aged over 50, disabled, from ethnic minorities or females.
This service can be accessed through our sites at Devonport Park & The Beckly Centre.
*The service can be accessed by anyone living in Plymouth over the age of 18 who is eligible to live and work in the UK, and currently in any paid work or training.