Packington Children's Centre

Islington London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Islington in Greater London, England.Islington home pagePackington Children’s Centre has two nursery sites, with one in Popham Road and another off Ecclesbourne Road – both just five minutes’ walk from Essex Road station.Our SENCO is fully trained to Level 4 and has extensive experience. Our full staff team are highly experienced and trained; all use Makaton sign language and PECS to support communication with children.
We have wide experience of working with children with complex needs, in particular we have adapted one of our nursery sites to support children with hearing impairment by installing acoustic panels.
We run small language groups on both our nursery sites and also deliver more specialist Chatterpillars and Little Leaps groups for children with more complex speech and language needs.
The children’s centre has a named speech and language therapist and CAMHS worker and we have excellent link with our health visiting team.