Resources & Links
SENDIASS Cambridgeshire
The Parent Partnership Service provides Cambridgeshire’s SEND Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS).
It offers impartial and confidential information, advice and support to parents and carers who have a child or young person with special educational needs (SEN) or a disability or have concerns that their child has special educational needs.
They also offer impartial and confidential information, advice and support to young people and children with special educational needs (SEN) or a disability or who have concerns they may have special educational needs.
IPSEA
Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (known as IPSEA) is a registered charity operating in England. IPSEA offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Cambridge County Council SENDInformation Hub (Local Offer)
Part of the Cambridgeshire County Council website that is dedicated to additional needs and disabilities. This area of the council website includes links to government policies and local guidance.
You will also find parental request forms for EHCPs and transport.
The team can be contacted on 01480 372600 or by email at SAT@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. You can contact a Duty SEN Casework Officer on 01223 699362 9am-1pm
Statutory SEN code of Practice
The code of practice contains details of legal requirements that you must follow without exception statutory guidance that you must follow by law unless there’s a good reason not to explains the duties of local authorities, health bodies, schools and colleges to provide for those with special educational needs under part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014.
The code, which applies to England, is for:
-
headteachers and principals
-
governing bodies
-
school and college staff
-
special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinators
-
early years providers
-
other education settings
-
local authorities
-
health and social services staff
-
SEN advocates and peer supporters
Contact
Information hub for families and disabled children
Our website has advice and information about concerns a family might have about raising a child with additional needs.
We run a free helpline and offer a Listening Ear support service. We produce a range of email newsletters and parent guides available to download or order
Pinpoint Cambridge - Parent Carer Forum
We give help and information to parent carers of children and young people aged 0-25 with additional needs and disabilities, and give parent carers opportunities to have a say and get involved in improving local services.
No formal diagnosis is required to access support from Pinpoint – a child may be on a waiting list, accessing services, had a referral turned down, or just be struggling.
Helen Sanderson Associates
We are a social enterprise, working to create person-centred change by transforming how we think, plan and meet together. We work internationally to embed person-centred practices into the heart of organisations and communities – creating better lives together
National Development Team for Inclusion ( NDTI) - Preparing for adulthood
We are a social change organisation that has been working for over 25 years with communities, governments and public services to enable people at risk of exclusion, due to age or disability, to live the life they choose.
Through our
-
Change and Development work
-
Research and Evaluation and
-
Best Practice Resources and Publications
we help organisations rethink what’s possible and turn it into sustainable change that leads to better lives for the people who live in our communities.
All of our work is inclusion focussed, coproduced and based on evidence.
The Council for Disabled Children
CDC is part of the National Children’s Bureau family. We are the umbrella body for the disabled children's sector with a membership of over 300 voluntary and community organisations and an active network of practitioners that spans education, health and social care.
As a membership body we provide a collective voice that champions the rights of children, young people and their families and challenges barriers to inclusion.
As a collective we believe that the views of disabled children and young people are vital to the development of an inclusive society and that they have the right to be heard and actively participate in decisions that affect them.
We believe that every child and young person should enjoy the same rights and opportunities and that every aspect of society should be fully inclusive to disabled children and young people.
Keep Your Head Mental Health Service
Mental Health first aid and a range of resources can also be found and accessed on Keep Your Head Mental Health Service.
Kooth
Online mental wellbeing community for secondary school aged children in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough