Your views make a difference, Chocolate & Cats 2nd April 2016 Dear All There is a general theme about your views, taking part and being heard… (chocolate and cats is the jolly bit at the end)
Feeding back on the Local Offer… Kingston & Richmond’s Local Offer website was the subject of a recent London-wide peer review; attendees were asked to come up with a good example and all cited www.afclocaloffer.org.uk Well done to all the parents who contributed to the on-line development group via SEND Family Voices last year. A big pat on the back for co-production! So… let’s keep our Local Offer website alive… Please use the feedback page to comment on any aspect of the Local Offer. That can be any services that are, or are not, included. Or perhaps a particular provision isn’t very well explained? With the exception of specific service complaints & vexatious comments; the Local Offer must publish and respond to insufficiencies within the Local Offer (this may be insufficient services or information about them). Karen Lowry (Local Offer Content manger) is always pleased to receive feedback; Karen is interested, responsive and enjoys improving the content of this website. Please send your feedback on the Local Offer, and know that your questions will be published and answered (to the benefit of us al): https://www.afclocaloffer.org.uk/enquiries/new
Transformation of SEND funding – help please A couple of weeks ago, we included this: "Today [7th March] the Government has launched the first stage of its consultation on national funding formulae for high needs and schools, and on other high needs funding reforms.” The consultation proposes to change the spread of high needs funding – in theory to equalise it across different boroughs - using a complex formula.
This is a major transformation! All parents, carers and young people are invited to participate; deadline is 17th April 2016.
Having started to read this, we’d like to run an on-line forum for the next fortnight, via e-mail, to compose a collective parent/carer’s view across Kingston & Richmond.