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You Said We Did test
Local Offer
| You Said | We Did |
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"It can be hard to navigate the Local Offer." |
New to SEND and SEND News area is under construction. |
| "Collate newsletters to share on the Local Offer in one place." |
All newsletters are now in SEND News on the Local Offer. |
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"Can you make it easier to find out where we can get support." |
Parent Carer Zone on Local Offer being developed in coproduction with parent carer groups. SEND Team contact page updated. |
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"Create more regular family newsletters." |
We now create half termly Family and seperate SENCO newsletters. |
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"There are too many acronyms and jargon used in the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities." |
Updated Glossary of Terms, with links direct into content on the SEND Local offer. |
Working Together Parent Participation
| You Said | We Did |
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"Can future parent carer summits consider evening times." |
We completed evening session on Health services. |
| Workshop development |
Video workshops for a range of requested queries are being built into SEND and AP action plan, and will be published in 2025 on the Local Offer. |
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"We have learnt more about different parent groups from the summit, how can we share the information wider?" |
Market place events are held with our Parent Carer Forums. Inform parent carers who our key parent groups are as part of the Parent Carer Communication group. Parent Carer group leads to be more involved with Parent Carer communications group, developing sections in the SEND Family newsletter and the Parent Carer Zone on Local Offer. |
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"What are the next steps were for the Parent Carer meetings?" |
Annual Parent Carer Summit review - November Working with Parent Carer groups at the annual sumit exploring next steps for the group. 1. How to best deliver information to you; moving to monthly calendared meetings, for updates from Education, Health and social care. 2. Workshop videos will be uploaded to the Local Offer Spring term 2025. 3. Coproduction work on refresh and development of the local offer and SEND Family newsletter. |
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"What is SEND Governance and all of the different groups?" |
June's parent summit focused on describing current arrangements that were in place for parents and carers. |
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"There is not enough time to respond to the POD's parent carer survey." |
We arranged an extension to the survey to ensure a collective response. |
Preparing for Adulthood (PfA)
| You Said | We Did |
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"The Local Offer doesn't hold enough information on it for 'Preparing for Adulthood'." |
A Local offer development and update is in place. PFA review of Local offer is ongoing. Additional pages and information will be created and reviewed to demonstrate what was available. |
| "There is no suitable local provision for our children when they go into Post 16." |
We expanded our Full-time Post 16 offer locally, opening a Derwen Satellite site, Really NEET and increasing the Supported Internship offer. This is reviewed annually to ensure the right provision is in place for our Post 16 learners. |
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"Post 16 communications needs improving." |
We have recommended Post 16 providers issue monthly communication via email and face to face meetings. We have engaged with post 16 providers as part of a SENCO network meetings. |
Travel Assistance
| You Said | We Did |
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"Making an application to transport is too hard and we have to repeat information." |
The implementation of a new travel assistance system where applications can be made and information not repeated. Feedback sessions with developers on what would be required. Training sessions so parents knew how to access the system. Amendments made to questions and FAQ's where parents did not understand the language |
| "Travel assistance workshops in 2023 were only during the day." |
PODs facilitated this year and ran twilight sessions. |
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"What types of travel assistance are provided?" |
In 2023 we arranged a meeting where the travel assistance teams are based so parent carers were able to see "behind the scences" to the travel assitance team. We have been working with POD's parent carer forum to publish FAQs based on questions asked by parent carer forum. |
| Meeting/Event | Date | Time | Location |
| APDR Workshop | 6 March 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | MS Teams |
| SENCo Network Meeting | 20 March 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Haberdashers' Abraham Darby |
| Professionals Transport Workshop | 9 April 2025 | TBC | MS Teams |
| SENCo Network Meeting | 26 June 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Venue TBC |
| Meeting/Event | Date | Time | Venue |
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APDR Workshop |
6 March 2025 |
4:00pm - 5:00pm |
MS Teams |
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SENCo Network Meeting (Neurodiversity Spotlight) |
20 March 2025 |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Haberdashers' Abraham Darby |
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Professionals Transport Workshop |
9 April 2025 |
TBC |
MS Teams |
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SENCo Network Meeting |
26 June 2025 |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
TBC |