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SEND STRATEGY 2020 – TIME FOR YOUR THOUGHTS – Consultation open till 31st March
A note from Lucy Pike, Head of Transformation & Improvement, Education Over the past few months Buckinghamshire County Council has been listening to children and young people, their parents, carers and families, to understand their needs and aspirations for the future. We have worked also with professionals from health services, education, social care and the voluntary sector, gathering their ideas. In this consultation, we now invite you to comment on the work we've done so far, which...
Elements of Inclusion Strategy 2020
We have been given an Inclusion Strategy 2020 document from Buckinghamshire County Council which is attached here. Strategy elements A3 v4 EM SEND - Inclusion Strategy 2020 There is a separate post relating to the consultation and meeting to be held.
Parent Dialogue Meeting for Short Breaks on Wednesday 25th March 2020
Dear Parents / Carers Action for Children and FACT Bucks invite you to join us for a Parent Dialogue Forum. There are lots of changes being made to the short breaks service for disabled children run by Action for Children on behalf of Buckinghamshire County Council. These short breaks include Early Years Short Breaks and Bucks Activity Project and the residential services at Merryfields, The Grove and The Vines. The changes aim to make the services more...
Are you coming to our event? Understanding Mental Capacity & available financial support Saturday 21st March
Join us at our annual event at Missenden Abbey to learn about Mental Capacity and available financial support. For many parents and carers, the challenges of day to day life leave little time to think about a time when children are no longer legally children anymore, especially when their additional needs clearly make the concept of adulthood even more remote. At the same time, having a child or young person with SEND in your family brings additional...
Meet the Integrated SEND Team at Chesham
Come and meet Hayley Nowley (Integrated SEND lead for Chiltern & South Bucks) and some of the Chiltern & South Bucks Area Integrated SEND Team (including Educational Psychology and Specialist Teaching), have a coffee and a chat!! These sessions are being held for you to come and meet the team and share any concerns you are having with staff/communication/applications/assessments. It will be an informal session where you can be open and honest. Then we can try to...
What Matters to Me – workshop for young people
Buckinghamshire County Council wants to help all young people prepare for adulthood and so are holding a workshop for young people with a learning disability between 13 and 25 to learn what matters to them. An adult or carer can come with them to Seeleys House Day Centre, Beaconsfield on February 19th between 10am and 12pm. For full details see PfA meeting
Drop In Sessions Preparing for Adulthood
Buckinghamshire County Council is developing a vision to help young people prepare for adulthood. If you are a young person with a learning disability, care for someone with a learning disability or have used or know about learning disability services, you are invited to attend one of 2 drop in sessions – your views are needed. The sessions are at Sivatech 35 Gatehouse Close Aylesbury HP19 8DE Times of sessions: 27 January at 2.30 – 4.30pm or...
Parent Dialogue Evening Monday 27th January 2020, 19.00 – 20.00pm
Parent Dialogue Evening Transport for pupils with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities This is an opportunity for parents to meet with the Council’s Director of Transport, Head of Integrated Transport and Head of Integrated Special Educational Needs & Disabilities to share any concerns, thoughts and ideas you may have as users of Home to School (or College) transport. Together we are working with FACT Bucks, the parent/carer forum in Buckinghamshire, to run these events and we will...
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