The Sleep Charity

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Aim

All children are supported to get a good nights sleep and that the importance of sleep for childrens mental emotional and physical wellbeing is valued and established across England and Wales.

Objectives

To provide goods, services and information to parents and professionals to prevent and manage children’s sleep problems thereby improving family lifestyle, relationships, mental wellbeing and education

To set up sleep services for ALL children across England and Wales.

To offer a specialist service for children with disabilities and sleep issues

To campaign to increase awareness of the importance of sleep for wellbeing

To train and manage Sleep Practitioners nationally to support this work by developing sleep workshops for typically developing children, SEND workshops, workshops to train teenagers about their sleep needs, antenatal workshops for expectant parents to prevent sleep issues, sleep practitioner workshops, training for nannies, foster carers, children’s homes, respite centres, nurseries etc.

Developing training for schools so education staff to recognise the importance of sleep for learning.

Training appropriate organisations re sleep problems within their current family support remit