Useful Websites & Contacts
Please see below the following websites giving you plenty more of SEND information:
https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals/first-tier-tribunal-special-educational-needs-and-disability
https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs/special-educational-needs-support
https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/children-young-people-and-families/local-offer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_NfdLAnKGB0lFHwTr_Vlw/videos - Hampshire SENDIASS have some great videos for young people to watch to help them understand all about EHC plans.
Local Education Authority - Education Health Care Team (EHC)
Barking Town Hall, Barking, IG11 7LU
Tel: 020 8227 2400 E-mail: EHC@lbbd.gov.uk
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Young people with Special Education Needs can now also access two new websites made just for them:
https://www.abphabyouthclub.org.uk/
https://www.talper.co.uk/blank-1
Local authorities must publish a Local Offer, setting out in one place information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. In setting out what they ‘expect to be available’, local authorities should include provision which they believe will actually be available. (4.1)
The Local Offer has two key purposes:
- To provide clear, comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date information about the available provision and how to access it, and
- To make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving disabled children and those with SEN and their parents, and disabled young people and those with SEN, and service providers in its development and review.
Please click the below link to visit Barking and Dagenhams Local Offer.
https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/children-young-people-and-families/local-offer