Chair - To be confirmed
Written Statement of Action (Area 4) - Aims to re-establish and strengthen parents and carers trust and faith in the local area’s work.
Written Statement of Action (Area 5) - Aims to establish and develop ways to ensure the close involvement of children, young people and their families in the co-production of the services, resources and support they need.
Key message
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How does this impact families? How does it link to the Written Statement of Action (WSoA)?
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- Working group 3 has a SEND parent as Chair of the group
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- Ensures parents and carers voices are heard and influential
- Underlines the group’s commitment to ensuring co-production
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- New parent carer forum established - SEND Alliance Cumbria
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- Ensures parents and carers have a forum to represent their views and concerns
- Ensures parents and carers have opportunities to raise issues and be involved in coproduction of services and improvements
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- Current and on-going opportunities for engagement and co-production
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- SEND Local Offer website continuous improvement group
- Autism diagnostic pathway review
- Neurodevelopmental pathway review
- Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear (CNTW) single point of access project for mental health services
- Regular monthly questions and answer sessions for parents and carers with senior leaders on Microsoft Teams
- Autism intensive service pilot engagement – South Cumbria
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- Completed co-produced work
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- Sensory processing workshops and service gap identification
- Crisis support (including violent and challenging behaviour) – now available in one place on the SEND Local Offer website
- Co-production training for early years services, including parents and carers completed
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- 6 Weekly SEND newsletters
- Half termly SENCO newsletters
- Half termly SEND updates to Head Teachers
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- SEND post-box on the Local Offer website to leave feedback on all SEND services across the whole SEND partnership
- SEND health services now on the main Health-watch website
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