The Children’s Trust
The Children's Trust is the UK's largest charity supporting children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability. The Children’s Trust’s brain injury rehabilitation service is primarily delivered from its national specialist centre in Tadworth, Surrey. It's the only service commissioned directly by NHS England to provide specialist brain injury rehabilitation for children and young [...]
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The Children’s Trust, the UK-based charity for children with brain injury, has appointed a new CEO.
The Children’s Trust provides specialist rehabilitation, education and community services across the UK to children with brain injury and neurodisability and their families.
The Children’s Trust has launched a programme to help education professionals gain a better understanding of how an acquired brain injury (ABI) can affect young people.
The initiative will be used to show teachers and carers the daily challenges each child with ABI faces. Every professional in the education sector can access the programme, which features a number of 30 minute online interactive sessions delivered from a teacher's point of view.
A charity which supports children with brain injuries and their families is investing in the future of its operation by introducing new facilities and services, alongside expanding its community offering into new areas of the country.
The Children’s Trust has revealed plans to create a state-of-the-art centre of excellence on its site in Tadworth, Surrey, replacing its current school, which will help support the education, health, care and therapy needs of each young person who needs its services. As part of its five-year strategy, the charity is also aiming to introduce five new services by 2024, the first of which will be its use of robotics and digital transformation.
A charity which provides residential and community care for children with neurological injuries and disabilities has secured the support of a celebrity who himself has overcome brain trauma in appealing for vital funds to sustain its work.
From its base in Tadworth, Surrey, The Children’s Trust has worked with 3,000 children and their families in the past two years, delivering specialist rehabilitation and tailored support as they rebuild their lives following injury or illness.
In support of its fundraising efforts, TV and music star Martin Kemp has committed his support, fronting a BBC Lifeline documentary to highlight the work of the charity.
Brain injury charity the Children's Trust is launching a recipe book developed by children and rehabilitation therapists.
'The Step-by-step Cookbook’ features 16 recipes with simple icons to show what equipment and ingredients are needed, and steps that can be ticked off with a wipeable marker. Recipes include breakfast dishes and drinks, main meals and desserts, with cooking tips and information on healthy eating. Therapists came up with the idea for the cookbook when they recognised a need for more accessible recipes.
The Children’s Trust event, ‘Building the future of childhood brain injury: where do we go from here?’, promises to take a visionary look at paediatric acquired brain injury and explore what the future may hold. Speakers at the conference, at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 6 September, include Dr Charlie Fairhurst, consultant paediatric in neurodisability and head of children's neurosciences at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Also speaking at the event is Professor Vicki Anderson, director of clinical sciences research at Murdoch Children's Research Institution in Melbourne, Australia.
