Welford Centre

• What they offer

  Welford Centre is a day service for adults with severe learning disabilities and additional complex needs, including autistic people. The fully accessible ground-floor building has four large main rooms plus activity rooms, a sensory room, rebound therapy room, water therapy room, pottery and art and craft rooms, cinema room, kitchens for cookery, and a large accessible garden with a wildlife pond, outdoor play equipment and raised flower beds. Meals are cooked to meet dietary requirements (e.g. diabetes, food intolerances, low-fat, multicultural diets, soft or pureed food), and the centre is also a safe reporting centre for hate crime.

• Ages served

  The service is for adults; no specific minimum or maximum age is stated on this website.

• SEN support & staffing

  All care staff are fully trained in working with adults with learning disabilities and complex needs, and the centre is accredited by the National Autistic Society for delivering services for autistic adults. Support includes positive behaviour, verbal and non-verbal communication, prescribed and rescue medications, physiotherapy, soft diets and stomach tube feeding, epilepsy, swallowing and eating difficulties, and rebound therapy. Resources include communication aids, physiotherapy and specialist moving and handling equipment, adult changing rooms with overhead hoists and shower rooms with specialist shower trays.

• How to book

  You must be referred by a Health or Social Care professional to use the service; the page advises talking to Adult Social CarePoint at Newcastle City Council for more information. Enquiries can be made by phone on 0191 277 2577 or email Welford@newcastle.gov.uk.

• Cost

  There may be a cost for this service, and how much you pay depends on your financial circumstances. The page refers readers to the council's Charging Policy for details.

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