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We have created a page to provide service updates and useful resources relating to SEND.
Please click here to access the page.
Latest letter from the SEN Service
Please click this link to read a letter to all local parents from our Assistant Director for Special Educational Needs and Educational Psychology, Julie Ely.
SEN Transport
In advance of the return to school in September 2020, please click this link for a letter regarding Special Educational Needs Transport and what we are doing to reduce the health risks on your child’s journey from home to school and back.
We want to hear from children and young people with SEND!
The Children's Services Department are really interested in the views and experience of children and young people with SEND, as this helps us to have the right services for you! We have a new SEND Children and Young People's page, where you can find out how you can get involved and read our All for Youth newsletter!
The Local Offer provides information about services that children, young people and their families can expect from a range of local agencies. Knowing what is out there gives you more choice and therefore more control over what support is right for you. What is a ‘Local Offer'?
We are continually reviewing and developing the Local Offer and would welcome your feedback. Please complete our short survey or contact us. For examples of how your feedback has previously been used to develop the website, please follow this link.
Did you know you can download the Local Offer as an icon on your phone?
The Autism Show Online!
https://www.autismlearns.co.uk/#1599597964263-2a92857e-94cd Read more >L AND Q FOUNDATION MENTORING CIRCLES EVENT
Please see our upcoming Mentoring Circles event, an opportunity for our young people to connect to CEO’s, Company Directors and Hiring Managers who are offering their employability support, to help young people aged 18-24 year olds on their journey into work. Read more >Advice and Support for Deaf Young People re. exam results
Exam Results Are Out - What Next? Advice and Support for Deaf Young People 25 August 2020 10.30am-11.30am Suitable for deaf young people aged 16-18 and their families. If you’re a deaf young person or a parent of a deaf young person, receiving… Read more >
Resources about healthy relationships launched for children and young people with SEND
New resources developed by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) aim to support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) understand their emotions, relationships and identity. The 'Love Life' resources combine video drama with suggestions for… Read more >
Extension of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal Trial
The Government has extended its two-year Trial of increased powers for the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal so that it is now due to end at the end of August 2020. This means that the Tribunal will continue to hear appeals relating to… Read more >
Launch event of the Bi-borough Sensory Support Team
Thursday the 10th October saw the launch of the new Bi-Borough Sensory Support Team for the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. The new Bi-Borough Sensory Support Team is the result of planning and talking to families and professionals. The team is made up… Read more >
A trailblazer to improve mental health provision in schools
This World Mental Health Day, we turn our spotlight on the exciting trailblazer project currently underway in Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea to bring children and young people (aged 5-25 years) who attend local schools access to strengthened support for their low and moderate mental… Read more >
Winners of the Local Offer Art Competition
We had over forty spectacular entries as part of our Local Offer Art Competition for children and young people with SEND that ran earlier this year. The creativity and artistic skill on display was astounding and it proved very difficult for our judges to select… Read more >College Open Days 2019-20
When you are thinking about moving on from school to sixth form or college, it can be a good idea to go and see the new setting to make sure it is right for you. and that is able to meet your needs. Open Days… Read more >