Welcome 

The Handsel Trust is an independent charity working to promote effective support for the families of children who have disabilities or additional needs.

Our work began in 1999 and since that time we have endeavoured to identify the needs of families and work to meet those needs.

In 2000, we published the results of the first national survey to identify the needs of families. 500 families completed the survey and we used the results to develop the keyworker model of support.

In 2006, we talked to families to find out whether sleep was an issue in their family. Of the 375 families we talked to, 82% said that their child had some sort of sleep problem.

Given the extent of the sleep problems we discovered, we have dedicated the majority of our efforts to sleep as an issue since that time. We are now offering practitioners a two-day workshop to help them identify and deal with sleep problems within families.

The following pages outline our work but, if you can't find what you are looking for, please contact us.