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Can you help design a new family support service in East Sussex and strengthen the voice of parent carers and SEND* families in the process? (*SEND is Special Educational Needs & Disabilities) East Sussex Parent Carer Forum (ESPCF) is seeking an Engagement Worker to play a key role in helping design and develop a new ... Read more

Thank you to everyone who got in touch to talk to us about the most pressing issues you wanted us to raise with Alison Jeffery at our meeting on 19th January 2022. Whilst we didn’t have time to cover everything in detail in this meeting, all your comments are still hugely valuable in steering all ... Read more

Click the link below to read the minutes of the ESPCF Steering Group meeting held on Tuesday 5th October 2021. ESPCF Steering Group minutes – October 2021 (PDF)

It wasn’t exactly a quiet summer, was it? Certainly not for the forum, with the publication of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in mid-August – to which many of you contributed by completing the parent carer survey earlier in the year – and ongoing challenges around home-to-school transport arrangements. So while we’d love to ... Read more

Many East Sussex parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) will remember completing a survey earlier this year which asked about your family’s views and experiences of SEND services in East Sussex. This parent carer survey fed into the SEND Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). This looks ... Read more

East Sussex Parent Carer Forum has published a position statement which demonstrates the priorities we have raised with East Sussex County Council when discussing retendering of some home to school transport contracts during 2021 for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The statement also outlines transport issues outside the retender process ... Read more