This part of our Making Sense of SEND workshops aims to help parents to feel more confident about speaking up for their child and working with professionals. It includes:
- Your views and your role – what is a parents role and what isn’t, sharing your views, day to day contact with your child’s nursery, school or college, taking part in meetings.
- Your child or young persons views and how to collect and share them.
- Sharing what you know – knowing your child and knowing your child’s SEN, gathering and sharing useful evidence, what to do if things go wrong.
All our workshop sessions focus on your role as parent carer and what you can do to support your child and work with professionals. We cover the facts and give lots of practical strategies and ideas to use. There is plenty of time for questions too. The session is run by DIAS Officers who work on our enquiry line.
You may find it most useful if you are a parent carer living in Devon and you’re new to SEND or have a child being supported without an EHC plan, but anyone is welcome to join!