We have provided a music therapy service in 6 schools across Merseyside, Cheshire, and Lancashire.  Five of these schools are special schools for children with a range of health and educational needs including communication difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder, severe learning difficulties and physical disabilities.  Two of the schools we serve are mainstream schools and in one of these schools the music therapy sessions have supported students with emotional difficulties.

We continued to provide music therapy services for MerseyCare NHS Trust, who run a range of units in Liverpool to support adults with acute and chronic mental health problems. These music therapy services continued to be well received by both service users and staff.  The co-ordinator organised a comprehensive service review using questionnaires for both service users and staff.

We continue to provide a community-based music therapy project to support stroke patients when they leave hospital.  The project was run in partnership with the Stroke Association and with two NHS Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. 

We continued to provide an 'in house' therapy service for individual, privately referred clients.  Clients include adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and children with communication difficulties as well as some clients referred by Liverpool Council as part of the post-adoption support given to children and families. 

We continued to provide a limited number of sessions within clients' own homes where the client was unable to travel to the MusicPlace base.