Dear all,

Opcare provide Posture and Mobility Services (wheelchair services) in Kirklees and Calderdale. The Clinical Commissioning Group (who fund the service) are undertaking a review and would welcome your to views to develop and improve wheelchair services in the future.
Healthwatch are working with the Clinical Commissioning Group to gather feedback from people who use Opcare’s wheelchair services and from staff who work with people who access Opcare’s services.

You may have recently completed a similar survey for Healthwatch – don’t worry, the feedback you have already given will still be considered as part of the review but you are welcome to complete this survey too if there is anything additional or new you would like to say.
Please note that any views you share will remain confidential, and no personal information will be shared, so feel free to talk to us openly. Anonymised comments may be used in Healthwatch reports and other communications. You can leave your contact details at the end if you would like Healthwatch to contact you about your experience.
Closing date – Friday 3 November 2017. A summary of the data and feedback collected will be made available on the Healthwatch Kirklees website before the end of December 2017.

Access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YVMBY8H

This is from the special needs jungle website. Please follow this link for more information.

“Renata and I recently visited the Department for Education and met with the Director of SEND, Ann Gross and Dan Evans, another senior official.

We handed to them around a hundred submissions from parents who both emailed in and left them on SNJ’s Facebook page about their experiences over the last year or so with SEND. Overwhelmingly, it wasn’t a pretty picture, although of course there may be many parents out there who have good experiences who don’t share them with us (which is a shame as we need to highlight good practice where it is found too).

In the meeting, we agreed once again for SNJ readers to submit questions to the DfE and we would send them the ten most popular ‘themes’. I say ‘themes’ because the last time we did this, in January 2016, there were lots of questions but many were variations of the same issue, so it was possible to group them together so the DfE could touch on more areas within each theme that were giving parents the most cause for concern.

We’re delighted that we’ve been offered the same opportunity to do this again and although the meeting was at the start of summer, we’ve left it until the new school term so that everyone is back from any holidays, into the swing of the autumn term and can participate.”

https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/put-your-question-about-send-to-the-department-for-education-2017/

At the bottom of the article is a link to the consultation survey to fill in.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/bid-cut-1m-kirklees-councils-13502463