Calling all Parents & Carers of children with additional needs…
Do you have questions relating to Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND)? What can a school do to support your child? What can’t a school do? And why. What is a ‘reasonable adjustment’ or a ‘graduated response'? What does one look like and how do you ask for one? What about the Local Offer? Do you understand what this is and how it can help you? Do you have any questions or comments about SEN Support or Education, Health & Care Plans (EHC Plans)? Where can you go for support & advice that will empower you to work with schools and other services to support your child? Or would you just like to talk to other parents of children with additional needs in a relaxed atmosphere?
SEND Family Voices is a group of local parents, who give their time voluntarily to help families get answers to these questions (and others), and to ensure that their collective views are properly heard by the people that provide services to our children and young people. We bring people together into a community to improve services, share support and strengthen our common voice. We’re delighted to facilitate a workshop on empowering parents to get the best support for their child by working in partnership. The workshop will be run by parents from SEND Family Voices and will start with an introduction on where we are then move onto an open forum where we can explore individual questions. Also attending will be SENCos / Heads of local schools who will be there to answer questions and also seek to better understand the experience of school for parents with children with additional needs (both positive and negative) This workshop focusses on children and young people in mainstream where needs are often being identified for the first time (eg dyslexia, high functioning autism, adhd) - and/or where a child is able to manage in a mainstream, but the environment is not automatically set up (as it is / should be in a specialist school)
Tuesday 23rd February 10am to 12noon or 7pm to 9pm Trafalgar Junior School, Elmsleigh Road, Twickenham, TW2 5EG
rsvp: sendfamilyvoices@outlook.com or Tel: 07469 746 145
We’re very grateful to Trafalgar Junior school for inviting us to offer this workshop and we hope that you will be able to come along, but if not, please use the contact details provided to get in touch. If you’d like some help, or want to submit a question, please contact us. We do understand that not everyone has time to get to meetings. Contact details:
Tel: 07469 746 145
E-mail sendfamilyvoices@outlook.com
www.sendfamilyvoices.org