References

School listings in England come from the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools register, accessed through planning.data.gov.uk. Scottish school listings come from the Scottish Government's school contact details dataset.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ofsted inspection reports and judgements quoted on listing pages are Crown copyright and are used under the same licence.

US public school listings come from the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data, accessed through the Urban Institute's Education Data Portal. Massachusetts private special-education school listings come from the directory published by the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools. Guidance pages on Medicaid, CHIP and IDEA are written from the federal statute, regulations and agency guidance, which are US Government works and not subject to copyright.

Map tiles and the address lookup that turns your postcode into a distance both come from OpenStreetMap, via its tile service and the Nominatim geocoder. Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

Listing photographs, street addresses and place categories come from the Google Places API. Each photograph was taken by a Google Maps contributor or by the organisation itself, who holds the copyright in it; where Google supplies the contributor's name we show it on the photograph, and where it does not, the photograph is credited to Google. Place details and photos are powered by Google.

No photograph on this site is taken from a school's, provider's or retailer's own website, and no organisation's logo is reproduced anywhere on it.

The photographs on the UK homepage are illustrative. The people pictured are not presented as service users or as having a diagnosis. Pictured places and activities are not presented as verified accessible or autism-friendly providers. Photographs are used under the Pexels licence.

Hero photographs: Barbara Olsen and Orione Conceição, Vitaly Gariev and Kampus Production.

Category photographs: Markus Winkler (fidget toys), therapy, Mikhail Nilov (local specialists), clinics, Kindel Media (EHCP support), Pavel Danilyuk (legal support), Alaur Rahman (benefits), Tony Zohari (holidays), Joaquin Carfagna (transport), Daka (days out), RDNE Stock project (sensory-friendly services), Kampus Production (clubs), and Artem Podrez (half-term activities). The separate half-term promotion photograph is by Aleksandar Andreev. The days-out guides also use a giraffe photograph by Daderot / Wikimedia Commons.

Half-term activity photographs: MabelAmber (hero), Sunriseforever (holiday clubs), dimitrisvetsikas1969 (regular activities), paulbr75 (days out), Bittermuir (England), RonBerg (Scotland), Whitechappel79 (Wales) and hhach (Northern Ireland). These are used under the Pixabay Content License.

Photographs on the UK directory pages are illustrative. The people pictured are not presented as users of the service, as having a diagnosis, or as endorsing the directory. The settings shown do not identify or verify any listed provider. The category photographs credited above are also used in directory page headers.

Sensory service photographs: Nadezhda Moryak (dentist), Gustavo Fring (optician), and Pavel Danilyuk (GP consultation). The barbers, Discover and Search hero photographs reuse images credited above with the UK homepage photographs. The cinema photograph is by Tima Miroshnichenko, and the holiday packing photograph is by Vlada Karpovich. These photographs are used under the Pexels licence. The days-out aquarium photograph is by paulbr75 and is used under the Pixabay Content License.

The days-out activity photographs also include a cinema by Back ache, theme park by Freddo and science centre photograph from Wikimedia Commons.

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