The Alliance works with over 1400 families whose children have additional needs using social media, direct messaging, online and face to face conferences and social events, emails and telephone calls. The Alliance aims are to ensure that families whose children have additional needs feel less alone, more recognised and supported and that they gain strength, advice and support from what we offer. We work to ensure families are given a real opportunity to have a voice in the decision-making processes which affect their lives and to feel more confident and able to champion getting the needs of their vulnerable children met. We do this by running events and hosting webinars to enable increased understanding of legislation and rights to support, providing an advice service that gives practical advice on how to ensure rights to support are met, by contributing valuable lived experience when working on local and national projects to improve services and by providing safe spaces for families to meet virtually, and face to face, to share their experiences with others experiencing the same challenges, who truly understand, to alleviate loneliness and have fun