Wednesday 10th March

Does your child attend an Alternative Provision?
(now or in the last 12-18 months)

• Has your child been permanently excluded from school in the last 12/18 months?
• Has your child received support in school from an alternative provision? 

 Kirklees council has commissioned an independent review of alternative provision in Kirklees led by Jane Friswell, an independent SEND consultant and parent advocate.Join Jane as she delivers an update of her review. She wants to hear from you especially the answers to these questions:

• What was your experience of the service?
• What aspects were good, most valuable, most impactful?
• What could have been delivered differently or been improved?
• What could you have delivered if time and resources were delivered elsewhere?

Sign up now for the presentation on 10^th March at 10 am.  (Please attend only if your child is up to the age of 18.)

Alternative provision includes the Ethos Academy Trust, known as Engage (Key Stage 2 Pupil Referral Unit), Reach (Key Stage 3 Pupil Referral Unit) and Ethos (Key Stage 4 provision).  There are other providers in Kirklees: Brian Jackson college, Employability Solutions, Pivot and TAO Activities.   

Kirklees Council has commissioned an independent review of Specialist Provision in Kirklees led by Jane Friswell, an independent SEND Consultant and parent advocate. We ran an event on Zoom on 24th February at 1.30 pm and gained some really valuable feedback of people’s experiences. However we need more views so we have created a survey. The questions include:

• What was your experience of the specialist provision service (how did you child benefit)?
• What aspects were good, most valuable, had the most impact
• What could have been done differently or been improved?
• How could you have delivered if time and resources had been invested elsewhere?
   

So if your child is at one of the schools below or has left within the last 12-18 months, or you know is receiving outreach support from the specialist provision teams in another school please share your views on our survey here. If your child/young person would like to comment, please support them to fill in the survey with their views. Thanks for your time, your views are so important!

If you would like to watch the video of the Webinar and hear what Jane and other participants said, please click here If you would like to see the slides relating to the event which took place on the 24th February, they can be found here

Primary: Lowerhouses (hearing impairment), Dalton (visual impairment), Rawthorpe St James Infant, Rawthorpe Junior (physical impairment), Windmill (complex communication and interaction, which includes autism). Secondary: Newsome (hearing impairment and physical) Moorend (visual impairment), Royds Hall, Honley High, Thornhill Academy (complex communication and interaction)

Please feel free to share this information with other parents or carers. Thank you!

Have you ever asked for help about:

• The behaviour of your child? 
• Support with any aspect of being a parent of a child with SEN?
• Activities or support for your child?  .

Kirklees Council has issued a survey about some proposed changes to the way they structure their children’s centres and deliver some of their services to families in Kirklees.  There’s a strong focus on Kirklees bringing organisations together from many areas including health, education, and community groups to work together in each of 4 proposed “Hub” areas.  The aim is to support families when and where they need it.   As part of that they are asking parents what activities and support are most important to them and to give your views through a survey. 

The survey link can be found here – please read the background information before filling it in – links below. The survey refers to an easy read document. What it means is the FAQs document which can be found below. If you are supporting anyone who can’t complete an online survey, please contact us and we can email/send a hard copy or complete the survey with them over the phone. 07754102336, or email info@pcankirklees.org

The deadline to complete the survey is Friday 26 February 2021

Young people can give their views here

To read more background information please click on the links below:

Background information (English)

Background Information Hungarian

Background Information Polish

Background Information Punjabi

Background Information Urdu

FAQ’s (English)