Family and accessibility moving planner

Make the move workable for everyone in the household

A moving plan becomes more useful when it accounts for the people and animals making the journey. The family and accessibility planner helps you organise schools or childcare, pets, access arrangements, essential equipment and continuity of support. You can select only the areas that matter to your household and add tasks in your own words.

The form does not need diagnoses, detailed medical histories or private information about children. Describe the practical arrangement: who will collect someone, whether step-free entry is available, or where a familiar bag needs to travel. This keeps the plan useful to the person carrying out the task without turning it into a sensitive personal dossier.

How the plan is assembled

Each selected planning area adds three suggested tasks. Schools and childcare produce prompts about contacting the destination service, transport and a first-week routine. Pets produce travel, secure-space and contact-update prompts. Accessibility focuses on access, transport and essential equipment; care or support focuses on continuity and confirmed arrangements.

The tool then adds the custom tasks you enter, including an owner, due date and status. The headline number counts the planning areas selected, not every task and not the number of services successfully arranged. Suggested rows appear as “To assign” and “To confirm” until you turn them into practical actions. Use the custom task rows to record the actual responsible person and date for your household.

No school place, transport service, funding award or healthcare transfer is booked or approved through this form. A generated reminder is simply a prompt to make the relevant arrangement. Record what the destination organisation has confirmed rather than assuming that a service at the old address automatically continues at the new one.

Worked example: a school move with access needs

Imagine a family selects schools/childcare and accessibility/equipment. The result shows two planning areas and six suggested tasks. They add one custom task: “Confirm step-free entrance for unloading”, owned by Alex, with a date one week before moving. The table now contains those six suggestions and the additional dated task.

After speaking to the property manager, Alex changes the custom task to done and adds a separate task for reserving the accessible entrance on moving morning. This is a planning example, not a suggested service deadline. The household chooses dates according to its actual arrangements and leaves unresolved points visible.

Turn prompts into a realistic moving day

Identify which person will be occupied with children, pets or support arrangements while other people load the vehicle. A name next to every important task prevents everyone assuming somebody else is handling it. Put essential equipment, chargers, familiar items and first-night supplies where they remain accessible; an item packed in the correct box is still unhelpful if that box is inaccessible.

Use the moving day schedule for handovers and journeys, and the unpacking planner for what needs to work first at the new home. Consider a quieter arrival route or a separate room while unloading happens. Base the arrangements on the household’s expressed preferences rather than a generic assumption about what support someone needs.

For school enquiries, begin with the appropriate destination route: England’s local council finder, Scotland’s school registration information, Welsh school admissions information, or the Education Authority in Northern Ireland. Check local procedures directly.

There is no standard family-support moving cost. If you arrange extra childcare, pet transport or specialist assistance, get the actual quote and record it in your moving budget. Keep an unpriced line while the arrangement is uncertain rather than assuming it will be free.

How to use this tool

1. Choose relevant areas. Select the destination nation and the areas your household wants help organising. Leave unrelated areas unselected and avoid entering unnecessary personal details.

1. Assign practical actions. Convert general suggestions into custom tasks with a responsible person, a useful date and a clear description of what confirmation is still needed.

1. Check continuity. Review essential arrangements before departure and again before the first night. Coordinate the plan with your moving-day schedule and retain direct provider confirmations separately.

Frequently asked questions

Does selecting schools arrange a school place?

No. It adds planning prompts and a destination information link. Contact the relevant admissions team or school to establish the actual process and available arrangements.

Can I use this without sharing medical details?

Yes. Enter practical access or equipment tasks without a diagnosis. Include only the information necessary for the person responsible to make the arrangement.

Why do suggested tasks have no owner or date?

The tool does not know your household’s availability or confirmed service dates. Add a custom task with your chosen owner and date when you have a concrete arrangement to record.