birmingham (dudley) can you help xxx

[f1nut]

hi everyone, i hopfully will soon be moving to birmingham (dudley) will be coming from london and moving from family and friends, wont know anyone, its a housing exchange. basically what i need to know its whats the area like? whats schools like? crime? basicall the in and outs, has anyone moved like me fron an outer area and how well did they setle? and the bigst thing, whats nhs like there, have a disabled son who needs regular speech therapy, phisio, occupational health. so need to consider this aswell. would be so gratfull if anyone could help me, thank you so much xxx

[littleredcorvette]

Hi - I live in Birmingham so I can't tell you about the NHS, LEA, Special Needs facilities, etc in Dudley, as they are run by different Councils.

I have however found this website (Up My Street) that you may find useful:
www.upmystreet.com/l/dudley-3842.html

Hopefully it will point you in the right direction

[Woooozle100]

Hello. I'm in Brum. Children's hospital is v good. Some great Special schools and National Institiute of Conductive Ed in the area. This is Brum rather than Dudley though - don't know much about Dudley. Would strongly recommend KIDS West Midlands in addition to all the NHS stuff. Its in Sutton Coldfield so bit of a jaunt from Dudley but worth it I reckon (though there is a centre somewhere else in the Midlands). They run various groups and outings. How old is your son?