Anne-Marie | Founder | Katie Walker Parenting Support

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Join date: May 13, 2022

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Anne-Marie, Founder | Katie Walker Parenting Support, has had 20 years experience in many different family support roles:

Family Support Worker.

SEND advocate.

Children's well-being group facilitator.

Child protection roles.

Home School Link Worker.

Has worked within Sure Start Centres & Junior/Primary Schools.

Holds a degree in Health & Social Care and furthered her education to Masters Degree level.

Anne-Marie | Founder | Katie Walker Parenting Support, also has first hand experience as a mother to three children, all with needs, ranging from Autism/ADHD/PDA/AFRID/SPD/Sleep disorders and OCD.

Posts (29)

Jul 15, 2026 ∙ 3 min

Summer Holidays are the perfect time to get 'September Strong'.

Send-Parenting-Balance works very much alongside the ethos that regardless of what the system is doing (or not doing in most cases) we can still take charge in our child's care and ensuring needs are being recognised. Waiting for services and 'fighting the system' has its place but it is not the whole story. The main and most important story; Our children's needs; How our children are accessing their community; Support networks we have access to and Parental Burnout / Wellbeing. The wait...

May 30, 2026 ∙ 4 min

I am trying everything, on every wait list and yet life is still tough! Every - single - day!

It's getting confusing out there! The teacher says one thing (likely with their own mainstream agenda). The SENDCo tells me that my child is 'fine'. The CAMHs wait lists are never ending and early help hub is telling me to do a parenting course. EHCP's are a battle and every day feels hard. HELP! That's exactly why SEND-PARENTING-BALANCE is here... The family and behaviour support service that SEND – PARENTING – BALANCE offers to families with children with ASD/ADHD/PDA currently do not...

Apr 16, 2026 ∙ 9 min

The more you give to PDA, the more you lose yourself….

For me it is the silent, unnoticed, emotional challenge that seems invisible to so many. It feels lonely and isolating. I feel that if I were in a public place and struggling to push a wheelchair up onto a pavement, many would hurry over to help but managing PDA demands in public is something entirely different because the emotional challenge cannot be seen. A friend recently used the analogy of feeling as if they would want to help carry the load if they could see that I...