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Come along and have your say about the SEND services in Buckinghamshire

A note from the Head of Integrated SEND Buckinghamshire County Council is working to improve support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. As you are the families we serve, it is very important to us to gather your views and experiences regularly in order to help inform our practice. We'd be grateful if you could take the time to complete this survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes. Do please...

This event is being organised by Buckinghamshire County Council and will be suitable for young people and parents of children to learn about the technology available to them. "Buckinghamshire County Council CHASC are holding a technology enabled care supplier day in Aylesbury Library on 25th September. This event forms part of our developing strategy and work programme for Technology Enabled Care, which aims “To make the best use of technology to support the people of Buckinghamshire to lead...

Children and Young People’s Therapies CYP Services Haleacre Unit Amersham Hospital Whielden Street Amersham Bucks HP7 0JD www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/cyp June 2019 Dear Parent / Carer Important changes to Speech and Language Therapy Demand for Speech and Language Therapy has significantly increased over the last two years. Despite service redesign, we have had to take difficult decisions about how we make the most of available Speech and Language Therapy resources. Our priority is to ensure that the quality of...

FACT Bucks is the Parent Carer Forum for Buckinghamshire, as required by the Children and Families Act 2014. We are a voluntary, pan disability, parent led parent/carer forum working to build parent/carer participation/co-production based on good practice, knowledge and expertise. We do not undertake campaigns, pursue individual cases nor offer support and counselling to individual parent carers. There are now 160 families registered as full members with an additional 250 families on our contact list. Whilst membership...

Bucks New University are holding a course called Flourishing Futures for parents of autistic children which will be held over two days in High Wycombe and Uxbridge. Flourishing Futures Free Workshops for Parents of Autistic Children Flourishing Futures workshops are held over 2 days to help parents manage children’s anxiety and use a strengths-based development approach to help children thrive. Our approach to understanding autism is unique and positive. The workshops are based on a new...