Thomas Bewick School is a special school within Prosper Learning Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is for children and young people between three and nineteen years with autistic spectrum conditions. All pupils have a Statement of Special Educational Needs/ Education Health and Care Plan or are in the assessment process. They have a range of learning difficulties; some will require a high level of adult support to access the curriculum, whilst others achieve close to age-related expectations in some areas.

Hadrian is a school for primary aged children with a wide range of additional needs including complex, profound and multiple learning disabilities, severe and moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, physical, perceptual and sensory needs. We help all our children overcome their personal difficulties through highly trained and expert specialist teaching, through our amazing therapeutic curriculum and resources and our partnership work with parents/carers and health professionals.

Fortune College, part of The Fortune Centre Of Riding Therapy, is a specialist college for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities aged 16-25. The college’s Further Education Through Horsemanship (FETH) Course offers an educational residential/day programme, working with horses, that prepares young people with learning disabilities to live as independently as possible and participate in their local community.

Treloar School and College offers physically disabled children and young people a specialist environment where education and learning take place alongside therapy and care.  Treloar’s offers day and residential placements, aged 2 to 25 years.  Each student is supported by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals on-site.

The Mulberry Bush School is an acclaimed therapeutic residential special school for children with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. These are children who have suffered early trauma, neglect and abuse and their behaviours are often very high risk, chaotic, aggressive and/or sexualised.

Based in Stockton, Sunderland and Newcastle, the College provides day and residential education for young people between the ages of 16 and 25 years with an autism spectrum condition (ASC). Students come from across the country to access this specialist provision that enables them to achieve their personal ambitions.

The majority of our students have additional and complex needs including learning disabilities, ADHD, mental health conditions, behaviours that challenge and sensory issues.

Newcastle Bridges School is a multi-site alternative provision academy within Prosper Learning Trust which provides education to pupils from ages 2-19. NBS predominantly serves children in the city of Newcastle but also those children and young people referred into hospital or mental health provisions from regional and national services, and some young people from outside of the authority. The school provides excellent educational opportunities to pupils whose education has been interrupted by mental or physical ill-health, school phobia.

Learning for Life is a registered charity and Northeast provider of education and social care services for children and adults aged 16 plus who have a diverse range of complex needs and disabilities. 

Specialist Rehabilitation Services

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability. We deliver rehabilitation, education and community services through skilled teams who work with children and young people, and their families.

Provides dental care for pre-school children, school children, those with special needs, learning disabilities, medical problems or severe anxiety and any other clients who are unable to find a dentist.  

Clinics are available at Arthur's Hill Clinic (check website), Kenton Health Centre, Molineux Street NHS Centre and Walker Centre. You can contact the service directly.

The community dental department provides a full range of dental treatment for patients who are residents of Newcastle and who fit one or more of the following criteria:

The children and young people’s clinic cares for children and young people with a range of genital conditions. We also see children and young people with concerns about sexual abuse. 

Children and young people can be referred to our care by their GP or a doctor from another hospital. The Police or Children’s Services also refer children and young people to our service.

The children’s acute nursing initiative (CANI) is a team of nurses who help with the early discharge of children from hospital.

We look after children from the Newcastle area who have been unwell in hospital but have improved enough to go home – with the support from CANI’s team of experienced children’s nurses.

Our services

To help children go home earlier, we can:

Our Allergy Service is led by a specialist team based in the Great North Children’s Hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Clinics also take place in Benfield Park Medical Group in east Newcastle and specialist clinics at the Freeman Hospital.

Our Children’s audiology services provides a full range of hearing tests from birth upwards.

We work closely with other professionals and specialists to provide support for children with hearing impairments.

These include:

• Educational sensory support workers
• Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) consultants
• Speech and Language Therapists; and Health Visitors.

If your child needs digital hearing aids, we can fit and programmed these specifically for your child.

We are one of only two centres in the UK dedicated to treating children with immune system deficiencies.

Our pioneering new treatments enable children to lead normal, healthy lives free of all medication.

Part of the children’s immunology service, we are recognised as one of the leading clinical research units in Europe for children’s immunology and infectious diseases.

This includes Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (SCIDS) and bone marrow transplants. 

The children and young people’s haematology and oncology service, cares for children and young people under the age of 21 who have cancer, leukaemia and other related diseases. 

Our department is one of the largest, most advanced in the UK, providing a comprehensive range of leading edge oncology services, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.

We are the Regional Treatment Centre for all of the Northern region, treating patients from Teesside to Newcastle, and Northumberland to Cumbria.

Our children’s community nursing service provides specialist care for children and young people up to the age of 19 years.

We aim to help you and your child to lead a fulfilling everyday life. We work to keep hospital admissions to a minimum by providing modern nursing care and support for your child and family in your own home.

This can include:

The children’s dentistry team provide specialist oral healthcare for children from birth to sixteen years of age.

Children and young people need different approaches to improve their oral health: We

Newcastle’s children’s emergency department (A&E) is at the Royal Victoria Infirmary

We have a specially designed area for children and young people who need immediate care for every kind of injury and illness you can think of.

Our children’s endocrinology and diabetes service is a regional centre for children with hormonal disorders, including diabetes.

Our team run an extensive range of clinics in diabetes, general endocrinology and growth.

Alongside this we run specialist clinics for children with Turner Syndrome and Metabolic Syndrome.

We also run a number of joint clinics with other clinical colleagues specialising in:

The children’s ear, nose and throat (ENT) service is for young patients, from newborn to 16 years old.

Conditions we treat

We provide services to treat common childhood ENT complaints such as:

• persistently runny or blocked noses
• breathing problems
• throat infections
• nasal speech
• snoring.

This might include procedures such as:

We are a registered charity set up in 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, at a time when the North East had the worst levels of child health in the country (Government report Health of the Nation 1990).

Our children’s gastroenterology and nutrition unit cares for children with disorders of the gut, liver and pancreas, as well as children with nutritional problems.

Based at the Great North Children’s Hospital, our team includes:

• expert consultants
• specialist dieticians
• paediatric pharmacists
• highly-trained paediatric nurses.

We provide a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services for children from across northern England.

The Children’s Audiology service can help with children’s hearing aids, their fitting, hearing aid reviews and repairs.