ESPCF Newsletters
Lots to share in our latest newsletter:
- A summary of our powerful engagement sessions with parents and carers on what needs to change in SEND (special educational needs & disabilities) provision in East Sussex
- news about the government’s SEND review green paper and how you can respond
- recent High Court judgment on EHCP timeframes
- new funding for neurodevelopmental support
- submit your topics for the next meeting with the children’s services director at East Sussex
- and a brand new taster session for parent carers interested in getting a bit more involved in ESPCF work.
We’re so pleased to bring you a packed edition full of news, projects and groups where parents and carers have been contributing their knowledge, experience and expertise. You can read about:
- mental health workstreams, including overcoming barriers to accessing support
- updates on home to school transport, assessment and planning, a dyslexia working group, and the Voltage email system
- our new steering group
- ESPCF priorities – we’d love to hear from you about these
- the local authority’s new local offer website – give them (or us) your feedback
- plans for us to hit the road in 2022
It’s a bumper edition for our final newsletter before the summer holidays. Click on the link below to catch up on the latest news, including:
- great opportunities to get more involved with the forum’s work as a steering group member or a parent carer rep
- groups and projects which need the parent carer voice, such as:
- a new dyslexia working party
- reviewing a new pathway for neurodivergent children and young people
- visiting the site of the new paediatric centre in Bexhill
- updates on ongoing workstreams including:
- child to adult health services transitions
- news on the major SEND provision survey conducted earlier this year
- home-to-school transport latest
And more…