This page has materials to download and order from Short Breaks Network to help you run campaigns, target carers from different backgrounds and carers for children with different disabilities. Many of these materials have been created as part of The BIG Recruitment Challenge funded through Aiming High for Disabled Children which has so far helped services in England recruit over 5000 new carers.

A range of publications and DVDs can be ordered from our publications catalogue april 2011

DVDs and Short Films
“I Could Do That – Become a Short Break Carer”
DVD can be ordered now.

Be the the BIG Difference! - Become a Short Break Carer is also available.
Download the here. PDF version   Word version

Photo Library
Short Breaks Network has a range of photographs that short break services can use free of charge in adverts and publicity materials to recruit short break carers- many of these photos are featured on our website. Click here to view some examples.
Here are some examples of the photos in use in a poster campaign.
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Poster2

Contact info@shortbreaksnetwork.org.uk for copies of photos and a terms and conditions form.

Illustrations Library
We also have a number of line drawings which you can use to promote short breaks.You can view these below but contact  info@shortbreaksnetwork.org.uk for high quality downloadable versions.

Conditions of Use:These images are free to use but please inform the artist when using her images. She may ask you to send her a copy for her portfolio.  She can be contacted at http://bett-norris.blogspot.com or bethyblue.art@hotmail.co.uk. She is also available for commissions.

• Asian man and teenaged boy painting.pdf
• Asian woman and girl reading.pdf
• Black child and woman doing her hair.pdf
• Black woman and boy cooking.pdf
• Black male befriender and boy with autism.pdf
• Child in wheelchair and woman.pdf
• Child pushing child in wheelchair.pdf
• Child in wheelchair man woman child.pdf
• Male carer and boy cooking.pdf
• Male carer and boy painting.pdf
• White befriender and boy with autism.pdf
• Woman and boy painting with hands.pdf
• Woman and boy painting.pdf
• Woman and boy and girl playing.pdf

Posters, adverts and postcard templates
These can be used in publicity and recruitment campaigns. High resolution copies for printing are available on request info@shortbreaksnetwork.org.uk
* ccn lo res logo poster.pdf
* family lo res logo poster.pdf
* ccn outside poster low logo.pdf
* bme poster high logo.pdf
* male lo res logo poster.pdf

Posters without Short Breaks Network's logo
* ccn lo res no logo poster.pdf
* family lo res no logo poster.pdf
* male lo res no logo poster.pdf

Real Family Stories
Hearing from disabled children, families of disabled children and short break carers can inspire people to become short break carers or better understand the role. Our DVDs have a range of short films featuring different short break carers and interviews with families of disabled children and short break carers and their families.

• There are colourful inspiring Short Break Carer factshhets to download from the CWDC (Children's Workforce Development Council's) website. Some services use these during the initial meetings with potential carers or display at events.
  
  
• Contact a Family's guide Our Family our Future tells the stories of 30 families of disabled children. It can be purchased as a book or downloaded. Again some services use this at initial meetings to help potential short break carers understand why disabled children need short breaks.
  
  
• This free DVD from ACT features a family of a child with complex healthcare needs visit ACT to order
  
  
• The films Meet some carers children, meet some disabled children and meet some short break carers from Short Breaks Network's I Could Do That DVD all give good insight into how short breaks impact on families lives.
  
  
• Other local authorities have produced their own DVDs to recruit carers, tell
  families about short breaks and encourage universal providers to provide
  short breaks such as Hampshire County Council's Inclusion Pack