Portage is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with additional support needs and their families.
Find Your Nearest Portage
The National Portage Association operates at national and regional level throughout the UK supporting individual members and registered services.
Workshops and study days allow members of a region to share knowledge and stay abreast of developments within Portage. Each region has an elected representative who is a member of the National Executive Committee.
- Birmingham Early Support Service
Perry Common Road
Erdington
Birmingham
West Midlands
Tel: 0121 303 0100/0183
- Burton & Tamworth District Portage Service
Grange Street
Burton-On-Trent
Staffordshire
- Coventry Pre-School Education Service
Tel 024 7669 4736
- Derby City Portage
Specialist Teaching & Psychology Service,
Middleton House,
27 St Mary’s Gate,
Derby.
DE1 3NN
Contact: Portage Co-ordinator: Eleanor Moore, Senior Portage Worker: Lynn Brierley
Email: mailto:steps@derby.gov.uk
Tel: 01332 641398
- Derbyshire First Steps at Home
Tel: 01773 74 8002
- Dudley Specialist Early Years Service
Church Street
Pensnett
Brierley Hill
West Midlands
- Hereford Portage Service
Widemarsh Commom
Hereford
Herefordshire
Tel 01432 271693
- Leicestershire Portage Service
email: psychology@leics.gov.uk
- Newcastle & Moorlands Portage Service
Ash Way
off Seabridge Lane
Newcastle Under Lyme
Staffordshire
- Northamptonshire Portage Service
Fairlawn Centre
Spring Gardens
Wellingborough
Northamptonshire
- Nottingham City Centre Portage Service
- Nottinghamshire Inclusion Support Service
- Rutland Portage Service
Education & Youth Dept
Catmose HQ
Oakham
Rutland
- Stafford & South Staffordshire Portage Service
Staffordshire Portage Service (Stafford & South Staffordshire)
Flash Ley Resource Centre,
Hawksmoor Road
Stafford
ST1 9DR
Email: mailto:portage.stafford@staffordshire .gov.uk
Tel: 01785 356961
- Staffordshire Portage – Lichfield and Cannock
Tel: 01543 510192
- Stoke on Trent
Stoke On Trent
Staffordshire
Tel: 01782 552568
- Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire
Tel: 01952 385269
- Warwickshire IDS
Orion House, Athena Drive
Tachbrook Park
Warwick
Warwickshire
- Worcestershire
De Salis Drive
Droitwich
Worcester
Worcestershire
Where is my nearest Portage?
Select your region by clicking on the map,
or use the list below:
- Eastern Region
- London and South East Region
- Midland Region
- Northern Region
- North East Region
- South West And Wales Region
Donate Now
If you'd like to help the NPA with its work, why not make a donation? We are dedicated to ensuring the provision and quality of Portage Services but we can't do this without your help. The Department for Schools Children and Families (DCSF) funding we receive, expires in 2011, so please help us. Donating couldn't be simpler. Just click on the link below to be taken to our secure site.
Newsletter
Once a quarter the NPA produces its quarterly newsletter called the Portage Post. We are always looking for articles by both parents and professionals.Click here to find out more
Links
- Portage Publications
- Read More
- National Autistic Society
- www.nas.org.uk
- National Childminding Assoc
- www.ncma.org.uk
- National Childrens Bureau
- www.ncb.org.uk
- National Day Nurseries Association
- www.ndna.org.uk
- National Deaf Children's Society
- www.ndcs.org.uk
- Parents for Inclusion
- www.parentsforinclusion.org
- Play England
- www.playengland.org.uk
- Pre School Learning Alliance
- www.pre-school.org.uk
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- www.rnib.org.uk