Run by
Mia from Skylarks
Online Sleep Workshop
We are delighted The Sleep Charity have agreed to give this online sleep workshop for our Skylarks families. Helen Rutherford will be the speaker.
The Sleep Charity is a national, award-winning charity empowering the nation to sleep better.
Joins us for a one hour online session with an expert on sleep for children with SEND, discussing how to support children and young people with SEND who are experiencing sleep issues.
There will be time to ask questions at the end.
About Helen Rutherford
Helen Rutherford has been a Specialist Sleep Practitioner since 2016. Her professional practice has focused on working with children who have additional needs. Her experience now extends into a fourth decade. She has a breadth of experience including management and leadership roles. These have included time as a Portage service manager (a home visiting educational service for preschool children with special educational needs and disability) and Family Liaison Officer on the staff of a special educational needs school in Worcestershire. In addition, she is an accredited ‘Signalong’ tutor.
She led on the NHS England funded, national award-winning project " Sleep Support for Children with Autism" and on the BBC Children in Need funded "Sleep Support for Children with ADHD". Helen has a flexible and adaptable set of skills that can have her sharing her expertise with health, educational and social care professionals in one part of the working week and then devoting her time to parents, carers, children and young people in the other.
She is a mother of four grown up children, who is looking for answers on how to win the continuous battle against the advances of a garden that is way too large. To relax, she can be found paddleboarding along the River Severn and on most Saturdays a parkrun starts her weekend off very nicely. All of that once she has put down the essential huge mug of tea, of course
*This workshop will take place online via zoom*
When:
Monday 29th June 2026
Time:
8pm - 9pm
