The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare and pension policy and is a key player in tackling child poverty. It is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK and serves over 20 million customers.

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DWP delivers its customer services through operational organisations. These are: The Pension Service, Disability and Carers Service, Jobcentre Plus and Child Maintenance.

The Pension Service

The Pension Service is part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It provides its customers with pensions, benefits and retirement information – for example, State Pension and Pension Credit

Disability and Carers Service

The Disability and Carers Service is part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It provides financial support for customers claiming disability benefits and their carers – for example, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance Disability Living Allowance for children and Carer’s Allowance

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus is part of the Department for Work and Pensions. It provides services that support people of working age from welfare into work, and helps employers to fill their vacancies.

Child Maintenance

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain. It funds information and support for separating parents and runs the statutory child maintenance schemes.

Detailed below is a list of various Benefits and Departments with phone numbers. Further information can be found on the website https://www.gov.uk/

The Council for Disabled Children

The Council is an umbrella body for the disabled children's sector.  Their website has a useful page containing information and resources for parents/carers of children with SEND.

Attention Autism is an intervention model designed by Gina Davies, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. It aims to develop natural and spontaneous communication through the use of visually based and highly motivating activities. Gina’s primary objective is that the sessions are fun and “offer an irresistible invitation to learn”!

Attention Autism have prepared activities that can support children to build up their attention span.  'The Attention Autism activity structure is divided into 4 parts:

• Stage 1: Attention bucket (to focus attention)
• Stage 2: Attention builder (to sustain attention)
• Stage 3: Interactive game (to shift attention)
• Stage 4: Individual activities (to focus and sustain attention in a group, then transition shifting attention to individual activity and then refocus on the group)' 

Click here to see a clip on YouTube that shows this approach in action.