Sam's Place

Sam’s Place, based at Harlow Fields School and College, provides a wide range of opportunities for fun social interaction and development for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

We work with children and young people aged 8 to 19 who live in the Harlow area and have and have an education, health and care (EHC) plan .

Sam's Place is fully funded by Harlow Council.

Accessing our service

Referrals can be made direct to Sam's Place by social care, schools, other agencies or by parents and carers.

The application process includes a home visit by our Senior Community Play Worker to establish whether the service is suitable for your child and to ensure that we will be able to fully meet their individual needs.

Sam’s Place services are in very high demand and we are not always able to help straight away.

Activities

Activity programmes are planned by staff with input from the children and young people.

Programmes include:

• cooking and healthy eating projects
• art and craft
• physical and sporting activities
• music and drama workshops

Our staff are sometimes able to take children and young people out on short trips to participate in social activities.

Saturday Club

9.30am to 12.15pm and 1.15pm to 4pm

Children and young people are able to attend on a fortnightly basis during school term time. Children aged 8 to 11 attend the morning session and young people aged 12 to 19 attend the afternoon session.

Play Scheme

10am to 3pm

Play Scheme operates 4 days a week during the Easter and summer school holidays and 2 days a week during the Christmas school holidays. Sessions are split into 2 age ranges of 8 to 11 and 12 to 19.

Youth Club

6pm to 8pm

This service is available on Thursday evenings during school term time for children and young people aged 12 to 19.