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SENDIAS need your views to improve their service through the Annual SENDIAS Survey. Last year’s survey influenced a range of service improvements. These include a new contact form, a Power Automate flow and a new format for their email response to your initial query, as well as adviser recruitment. If you have signed up to receive their survey, and had help from SENDIAS in 2025, you will receive a SENDIAS email with a link to their survey...

This is Issue 93 of Keeping Connected, a local authority newsletter packed with updates and reminders.  Previous newsletters are here: SEND Service Newsletters | SchoolsWeb Their next newsletter will be out on 6th March 2026.

FACT representatives attended the Buckinghamshire Carers Conference recently. Insights, expertise and sharing of personal experience truly enriched the event and helped create an inspiring and informative experience for all involved. You can see the slides shared on the day, as well as copy of the showcasing good practice brochure.

Ofsted inspectors Emma Leavey (lead HMI) and Daniel Carick (lead CQC inspector) met online with 3 members of the Fact Bucks steering group recently, one of our trustees and three parent carers who play valuable roles in supporting other SEND families in Buckinghamshire. Thank you to all who contributed on the day, preplanning, completing the Ofsted CQC survey and any feedback given in FACT BUCKS surveys, workshops and webinars over the past 3 years. This presentation shows...

We have an online teams meeting with the inspectors to talk about existing issues not individual cases. These are (but not limited to): poor early identification delays in meeting need poor communication alternative provision education other than at school special school places mainstream schools compromised by the withdrawal of higher needs block funding school staff shortages therapies targeted and specialist short breaks inclusive and flexible Holiday activities and Food programmes waiting lists and support for neurodivergent families...

Area SEND inspection: survey information for parents and carers Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are visiting Buckinghamshire as part of an inspection. The inspectors want to know about the help and support that children and young people with SEND get. They would like to hear your views about the support that your child receives. You can provide your views by completing an online survey at the following link: https://ofsted.smartsurvey.co.uk/p/AreaSend/10389069 This survey is for parents/carers of children...

"Just throw the damn lifeboat." - a short film highlighting suicide risk for parents of disabled children A new short film on parent carers was recently launched. Made by award-winning filmmaker Bhulla Beghal, it is inspired by our research on suicide risk in parent carers. It is beautiful and unflinching, and calls on the government to fix the systems that shape the lives of disabled children and their families..  Please note that it may be distressing for...