SEND News

Charting the achievements from April 2023 to March 2024, the new SENDIAS Annual Report looks at the operational functions, support, development, and the difference the team has made. The SENDIAS Team provides free impartial, confidential advice and support about education,…

Excellent, free training available to support hearing the child’s voice. Route1 Advocacy is a service that supports children and young people in care, and those receiving a service from Children’s Social Care. They do this by matching volunteers with young people…

It’s one of the largest volunteer forces in the country – and now you could be a part of it by giving time to become a school governor. Being a school governor is a challenging but hugely rewarding role. It…

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) are launching a new campaign! “SSCP NAI Awareness Week 2024” will be launched in the first week of July (1st to 5th), aimed at raising awareness about non-accidental injuries to babies and support services…

Easy to follow online modules enable children to learn English or over 120 other languages – all for free with a Somerset library membership! Children can now access up to 120 language learning modules via the Transparent Languages Online ‘Kidspeak’…

Local organisations are collaborating to support children and young people and prevent concerns around violence in key town centre locations. While Somerset remains a safe place to live, we recognise the need to engage with young people, parents and guardians…

                  All the workshops are delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer. Alongside this there will be information workshops held both face to face and online.…

We have created a list of Hard Cases and schools are being notified if one of the pupils in the school needs this additional focus to bring the issues that have been raised to a positive solution.  As we progress…

The day runs from 10am-2pm and will be packed with exciting and inclusive activities run by our providers for children with disabilities and their families to try out. These include drumming, laser tag, badge making, tabletop games, giant Jenga, cricket,…

We’re trying to increase collaboration between professionals and their community, and increase the amount of early help that’s available for families and residents.  So the emphasis is absolutely on the existing brilliant joint working, volunteering, community resource such as hubs…

May’s Unstoppables meeting was full of hard work and laughter. We had a busy agenda to work through with some important topics to have discussions about. The topic for the meeting was the ‘CYPP’ (Children and young peoples plan). Every…

I have recently taken on responsibility for SEND Commissioning, alongside the fantastic Inclusion Commissioning Team currently working to Nathan.  I’ll mainly focus on strengthening our commissioning of Independent Non-Maintained Schools and Alternative Provision, getting data, costs and quality under control,…

What is the purpose of this consultation survey? We want people to have their say on the draft document to create a fully co-produced final version. The draft content in this document has already been developed by various stakeholder groups,…

Local organisations are collaborating to support children and young people and prevent concerns around violence in key town centre locations. Sergeant Charmaine Dyne, Early Intervention Team, Avon and Somerset Police who is leading on this project said: “While Somerset remains…

This survey has been designed to help us understand the support available for children and young people and what would be helpful. The survey will be used to help us decide how we do things in Somerset, with the view…

Calling all School SENCo’s – there is now an online webinar available to support you through School Entry Planning process. https://somersetcounciltraining.co.uk/Event/233435  As a School SENCo your role is to ensure children have a positive transition from their early years setting…

 Let’s Talk SEND & Inclusion Events We are delighted to announce the first of our Let’s Talk SEND & Inclusion events for this year. This event is for parent carers and practitioners in Somerset. The event will include a range of…

This half-day training session is open to any number of members from your school team at all stages of their careers. The training will take place at Hestercombe House and Gardens with access to the gallery. You are welcome to…

Date: Thursday 27th June 2024  Time: 4pm – 5:30pm (with 30mins optional supervision) Venue: Online  Price: Free for Somerset Schools This networking event is designed to help teachers and art leaders use the creative arts and music within Primary, Special School…

Earlier this academic year we held several consultation events with Somerset Wellbeing Framework schools and partners to discuss areas for development and improvement. Event one: 6th June 3.00 – 3.30pm Event two: 12th June 12.00 – 12.30pm (attendance at one…