How can we help

Our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service provides support and guidance for parent carers and young people with Special Educational Needs. Please click HERE to watch a video on how the SENDIAS Service can help you or read the below information. Click HERE to see what SENDIASS Services have to do to reach the minimum standards.

As a parent or carer of a child with Special Educational Needs you could be caring for a child who has:

a physical disabilities
a problem with sight, hearing or speech
learning difficulties
emotional or behavioural problems
difficulties with reading, writing or mathematical work
other more general difficulties with school work

Independent Parental Supporters

SENDIASS can provide an Independent Parental Supporter: a totally confidential service, fully independent of school and the Local Education Authority. They can provide:

Free advocacy
Support
Information
SEND tribunal support and preparation
Transport applications

There are many ways our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) can help, these include:

· If you are a young person or a parent carer, we can help you to express your or your child's views and aspirations to be included in Education Health Care Plan (EHC)

· Help you understand the SEN process

· Space to talk and time to listen. We take your views seriously.

· Support at meetings such as Reviews, Annual Reviews and Transition

· We can speak on your behalf by providing informal advocacy and we will also work with you to help you gain new skills for the future.

· Practical help, including the writing of letters

· Support in talking with professional to help you express your views.

· Preparation and support for exclusion meetings

· Mediation and signposting

· Preparation for tribunal

· Telephone & face to face support

· Regular newsletter

· Access to training.