Resources for Growing Up
For parents of young people with learning disabilities
Worried about unsafe behaviour?
Thinking about their future?
We are parents of young people with learning disabilities. We know the sleepless nights you have worrying about their daily lives. All this experience has been put into Learning for Life, so that we can ensure all young people grow up understanding:
appropriate behaviour
personal boundaries
independence skills
everyday decision-making
And it’s made specifically for your young person, across a range of additional needs and learning disabilities.
Our commitment to your free access
As a charity, we don’t want to exclude any of the young people we could be supporting. Regardless of income, postcode, or personal situation, they all deserve access to the projects we offer. We provide access to our resources completely free for families. Get a Parent Code for free or with a voluntary donation, and all of your resource downloads, across both projects, are free forever. Unlimited use, no subscription - genuinely free.
They’ll be adults one day
We don’t always want to think about it. Sometimes, we just can’t think about it.
There’s too much we have to consider in coping with day-to-day life that what their future will look like is so far down the priority list.
But we started to think about our young people, and others that we knew. What would their lives look like?
For individuals with learning disabilities, this looks vastly different from one person to the next. There’s no ‘one size fits all’.
But unfortunately, there’s one things that we know for sure. People with learning disabilities are more likely to experience abuse than their typical peers. They will grow up to be vulnerable adults, as much as we might hate to hear it.
That’s why Learning for Life exists. It provides real, skills-based teaching which can help to keep our young people safer as they grow up. They will never be 100% safe, but we can do our best to give them skills like:
Identifying scams online
Knowing when a friendship is unkind, unhealthy, or unsafe, and how to end it
Advocating for themselves when others try to make decisions on their behalf
And all of this is covered alongside a range of life skills.
Planning and preparing healthy meals
Creating a balanced lifestyle
How to ask for help, and knowing who to trust
Making healthy and long lasting friendships
We’ve got you covered. Supporting your young person to learn key life skills to keep themselves safer, and live a fulfilled life has never been easier.
Topics in Learning for Life
Growing Up and Keeping Safe
Emotions
Caring Friendships
Being Healthy
Changing Adolescent Body
Families
Understanding Health & Prevention
Respectful Relationships
Online Safety
Consent & Decisions
Learning for Life is a video-based project, with printable activities to work through alongside.
It’s made with a range of experts, from SEND teachers to online safety specialists. Bringing together all this knowledge means our content is evidence-based for SEND learners, and for the topic it covers.
We use the curriculum as a scaffold, so learning at home will line up with school. But we go further and add what we know our community truly needs.
Our experience as parents of individuals with learning disabilities means we make sure to include real-life skills that matter most.
And we know how important parents and carers are in our young people’s learning journey. Learning at home, and reinforcing learning from school, is where knowledge really sticks.
Parent Codes
Every child and young person with learning disabilities deserves high-quality, accessible resources at home. Cost should never be the thing that gets in the way.
We also know times are incredibly tough for families. They’re tough for small charities too, and we want to keep creating new, practical, and important resources without putting pressure on the people who need them most.
So, we’ve redesigned how families can access everything.
You can get Learning for Life in our Parent Hub in a few easy steps:
Get your Parent Code, for free or with a voluntary donation
Send us your SEND verification on email
We will email you log in instructions and your Parent Code for free resource access (this code can also be used for all the Teach Me Too resources)
Want more information? Keep reading…
Get Access Here
How it works for families
You can choose the option that suits your household:
Access everything for free if that’s what you need — no questions asked.
Make a small affordable regular donation to help us keep supporting the families and delivery partners who simply can’t afford to pay.
Or make a one-off donation for 12 months of unlimited access to all our digital downloads.
When you sign up below, we’ll send you a unique discount code that means your basket will always say £0, no matter how many times you purchase a resource.
A quick note about SEND verification
We’ll ask you to email us a simple form of proof that a child or young person with SEND lives in your household (for example: an EHCP, diagnosis letter, SENCo letter, or PIP/DLA confirmation).
This isn’t about gatekeeping support — far from it.
It’s simply a way of keeping things fair and sustainable:
This access is for families who need it, and to ensure it used for this purpose we do ask your to simply prove you have a person with learning disabilities living in your home. We don’t keep this evidence; it is checked and deleted straight away.
Schools and colleges must use the education licence tailored for them - you can find more information about this on our Education Subscriptions page.
This helps ensure we can keep offering free access to families who need it most.
There’s no judgement, no hoops, just a straightforward check to make sure each route works as intended.
This access is for parents and carers to use at home only. It can't be shared with schools, tutors, or any other education setting - schools and colleges have their own dedicated licence.
Why this approach matters
Even small charges were stopping families from using the resources they rely on.
Some families want to contribute financially but need flexibility.
Donations and school licences are what make it possible for us to continue developing new, truly accessible resources.
Our Delivery Partner Scheme ensures charities and local groups can access everything at no cost, so communities benefit widely.
In short
If you can donate, thank you — it truly helps keep the charity going.
If you can’t, please still take everything you need.
Your child’s learning always comes first.
Don’t forget to tell the schools and colleges about us too! If it's helpful, we're always happy to get in touch with your child's school ourselves to tell them about Learn and Thrive - just drop us an email and we'll take it from there.
To sign up simply choose the option below and go through our checkout, if you have chosen free there will be no charge, but you do still need to check out.