No Limits - for children with additional needs

What is No Limits?

No Limits is a joint a joint partnership between Suffolk County Council Children and Young People's Services and Health.

The database is a voluntary register of children and young people with additional needs and disabilities. The Children Act 1989 requires that every County Council should keep such a register.

Why enrol your child on No Limits?

The database is used to produce numerical statistics. If you register with the database, it gives a better picture of where children and young people with additional needs live in Suffolk and this helps organisations to plan services. The database records are held on computer within Suffolk County Council. All the information held on the database is confidential and no individual is ever identified.

Everyone who registers with the database receives:

  • A newsletter 'Unlimited' four times a year, which is packed full of up-to-date information about services, events, opportunities and support.
  • A 'Service Finder' of useful local and national organisations.
  • Regular updates on what is happening in Suffolk and beyond throughout the year.

Who can join?

People aged 0 -19 years old whose disability seriously affects their daily lives can register.  Generally you should consider enrolling your child with the database if they have:

  • a permanent disability;
  • physical disability;
  • learning disability;
  • sensory or communication impairment;
  • specific behaviour problems;
  • any other disabling condition which needs treatment over a long period of time.

How do I join?

You can register your child by completing an enrolment form; (PDF, 39Kb) only the information that you provide on the form will be stored on the database.

Checking Information

Once enrolled you will receive a computer printout of the details held on the database about your child.

All the information held on No Limits is checked with you every year through the newsletter to ensure that it remains accurate and up to date.

No Limits also has its own website where young people with additional needs can find out how to access support, opportunities and plan for their future.


No Limits logo No Limits Web site 
nolimitsnewsletter75100 Latest edition of 'Unlimited' (PDF, 4Mb)
nolimitsenrolmentform download a form to register with No Limits 
(PDF, 67Kb)

There are policies and procedures associated with this area of work:

family This guidance provides additonal advice about the Carers' and Disabled Children Act (PDF, 46Kb)
rights Carers Assessment Procedures (PDF, 126Kb)    

The government offers the following guidance on this area of work:

The Carers' and Disabled Children Act provides a framework for the delivery of Social Care Services.

Government Policy and Practice Guidance

You may find these web sites have information that will help you:
4 people with hidden impairments
The Children's Society
Connects: the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities portal
National Autistic Society
Royal Association for deaf people
Contact a family
Disabled Workers Co-operative