Urgent SEN Support
Specialist SEN support when things feel unstable and you need calm, experienced help
Understanding the Situation:
Urgent SEN support is for moments when a young person is no longer coping and existing provision is not enough.
This often involves autistic young people, PDA profiles, ADHD, anxiety, educational trauma, or significant mental health strain. Families usually reach out when things feel fragile, unpredictable, or unsafe, and when waiting is no longer an option.
Support may be needed following safeguarding concerns, online harm or grooming, severe anxiety, prolonged shutdown, school refusal, or a rapid decline in mental health.
It may also be needed when education has reached a critical point, such as GCSEs or exams approaching, and a young person feels overwhelmed, disengaged, or at risk of being left without appropriate support.
In these moments, the priority is not progress.
It is stabilisation.
How We Stabilise the Situation
Stabilising a situation often starts with helping a young person feel more like themselves again.
That might mean laughing together, reconnecting with something they enjoy, or spending time around an interest that helps their nervous system settle. Sometimes the first shift is simply relief that nothing is being asked of them.
Sessions are low demand and carefully paced. We follow what the young person can tolerate and what helps them stay present. Support may involve familiar activities, shared focus, or time with a calm adult who is not pushing or fixing.
Our work is trauma-informed and PDA-aware. We pay close attention to what supports regulation and what escalates distress, adjusting moment by moment so trust is protected.
Parents are kept closely involved. No child is supported in isolation. Each situation is held by a wider team who reflect together and adapt as stability begins to return.
Why Families Trust Our Response
Families trust our response because we are calm, experienced, and clear in complex situations.
We have supported safeguarding and grooming-related interventions, severe anxiety and mental health deterioration, prolonged shutdown, loss of communication, school refusal, placement breakdowns, and urgent exam-related crises.
This work is informed by experience across SEN schools, EOTAS provision, alternative education, and home-based support. We understand how quickly situations can escalate and how damaging the wrong approach can be.
Our response is steady rather than reactive. Pressure reduces. Safety returns. Families regain clarity about what support is genuinely needed next.
Often the first change is subtle but important. The home feels calmer. Communication begins to return.
From there, other steps become possible.
Next Steps
If your child is in crisis, has disengaged from education, or needs urgent SEN support, please reach out.
We can talk through what immediate support might help stabilise things and create a way forward.