Providing impartial information, advice and support to children & young people with SEND & their parent carers
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We are happy to share that we have just finalised our SENDIAS Annual Report for April 2025 - March 2026: SENDIAS Annual Reports In our report, you will find information about the service, our achievements over the last year, service-related statistics, and what we hope to accomplish this coming year. We hope this is helpful … Continue reading SENDIAS Annual Report is published!
As many of you are aware, the SEND White Paper has been released today, and contains proposals for reforming the SEND system in England, along with a public consultation. It is important to note that this is still very early on in the process, and these are still just proposals at this stage. Here are … Continue reading SEND WHITE PAPER
Didn’t get the exam results you were hoping for…? Want to know more about study and work options once you leave school…? The Child and Young Person Advisers from the SEND Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIAS) have put together a short video to help you think about the different options you have once you … Continue reading Calling all Year 11 School Leavers
We need to let you know that SENDIAS have been experiencing some difficulties with our email inboxes recently. Apparently, some of our emails have been incorrectly “quarantined” by the email defence system as possible spam and unfortunately, we had no idea this was happening until some families told us that they had emailed us and … Continue reading Missing emails to the SENDIAS inbox.
Requesting Parent Carer, Children and Young People views Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are visiting West Sussex to assess how effective the local area partnership’s commissioning arrangements are at identifying and meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND. Your views are important to this process and will help inspectors understand … Continue reading Area SEND Inspection – Surveys
We are very happy to share that we have just published some new guides to our resources pages. One is about how to choose a placement when your child or young person has an EHCP. This can be found on the Education, Health & Care Plans page. Annual Reviews ↗ What is an Annual Review … Continue reading Our website has some new guides!
You may have heard recently that appeals to the SEND Tribunal are being severely delayed due to the increased number being received. At the time of writing this (Nov 2022), Face to Face Hearings are taking up to 50 weeks to be held, with no sign of this changing for the foreseeable future. It is … Continue reading Delays to Appeal Hearings – what can I do?
If your young person has taken GCSEs this year you will be aware that results are available tomorrow (25th August). They may already have a plan and know what is happening come Sept, but for some, their results may not be as expected. This blog explores the different options available. Does a young person have … Continue reading GCSE results – what now?
We are pleased to be able to share our new, recently published SENDIAS Annual Report with you. This report will show how we are starting to adjust to the continued increase in demand to the service and ensure that we can find different ways to offer quality information and advice to empower parent carers, giving … Continue reading SENDIAS Annual Report 2021-22
We are excited to announce that we have added some new guide pages to our website. These guides build on our existing leaflets to provide more in depth information and advice on various SEN & EHC Plan related topics as well as new ones that we have not previously covered. When you call or email … Continue reading New Website Pages
