News

TreeHouse is delighted that The Communication Trust will be dedicating the year 2011 to managing and delivering a nationwide campaign focusing on the importance of developing children’s communication skills.

The Parent Participation Project held its final communication and media workshop for parents and professionals from Haringey on Thursday 4 March with great success. The workshop was an opportunity for parents and professionals to work together to co-produce messages about parent participation and learn effective skills and strategies to engage with the media on this important issue.

TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, welcomes today’s (03 March) publication of the Adult Autism Strategy, aiming to improve the lives of adults with autism.   

TreeHouse is a member of the Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) campaign for rights and justice for all disabled children. We are delighted to endorse the EDCM Constituency Pledge, launched on Thursday 25 February, which we are calling on all political candidates to sign up to. If candidates are elected to represent their constituency as an MP, the Constituency Pledge will commit them to meeting with local disabled children and their families, visiting the services they use and to raising issues of concern to them in Parliament.

Children's Secretary Ed Balls and Schools Minister Diana Johnson published plans to implement all the recommendations from the Lamb Inquiry on parental confidence in special educational needs (SEN) system on 24 February 2010.

Parent carers from Brighton & Hove made their debut in the spotlight at the Parent Participation Project Media workshop in London on 18 of February 2010.

Earl Howe, the Conservatives’ Health spokesperson in the House of Lords, paid a visit to TreeHouse on 11 February.

TreeHouse is delighted to be the beneficiary of Impact Theatre’s forthcoming Spring production of “Seussical the Musical”

David Laws, Liberal Democrats MP for Yeovil and Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, visited TreeHouse on 25 January.

The Parent Participation Project held a Media Workshop in Manchester for parent carers and professionals from Telford & Wrekin and South Tyneside on Friday the 15 January 2010, with great success!