SENDiass4BCP @SENDiass4BCP@learningdisability.social

A quick reminder that next week, our next in-person workshops are happening at the Slades Park Pavilion, Slades Farm, Ensbury Avenue. If you would like to come along, or attend in-person or online at any of our other workshops, take a look at our website events page: https://sendiass4bcp.org/events/

Families will only be seen in an arranged time slot
The adult coming to the session must have parental responsibility and the child must be registered with a Dorset GP
For further information please contact dhc.slt.queries@nhs.net
Ready STEADI Chat is not run by SENDiass4BCP, so we won't be able to answer queries on it.

If you feel your child may struggle being in a group with other children, or become distressed in new or unfamiliar places then they offer a virtual session instead.
To reserve a time slot to see them, first visit their website www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk
and choose one of the sessions listed.
Next, call the number below to reserve your slot
01202 443200
Lines are open between 10am & 2pm Monday to Friday

The NEW easy access pathway to speech and language therapy for children who have not started school, will commence from the 17 April 2023.
You will be able to bring your child along to one of the regular NHS:
Speech Therapy Early Advice Drop In’s
The Drop-In session is a pre-bookable session for parents/carers who have concerns about their child’s speech, language and/or communication development. You will have the opportunity to discuss your concerns with a Speech and Language Therapist.

Should you have a more urgent support need, the charity Contact - For families with disabled children can also support you. Their website is https://contact.org.uk/, their phone is 08088 083555

Over the Easter half term holiday (3rd to the 14th of April), we will be closed to new queries. We will still be supporting people who have already contacted us, including those who are awaiting a response.

Should you need support, we have our FactSheets and other support on our website https://sendiass4bcp.org/

We also have our workshops, register to attend at https://sendiass4bcp.org/events/

Take a look at our various videos on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLzmZYKx8HsL8ANPO2qfpgQ

information & advice.
For more complex information and advice, we will also provide one-off phone appointments with a SENDiass Officer. Where direct ongoing support is necessary, we will still be allocating an Officer.

As always, we welcome your feedback on how SENDiass4BCP works for you, so please do let us know via this feedback link - it will take you to a form on a new page https://forms.office.com/e/AVwBJiCPvC.”

Our new website (https://sendiass4bcp.org/)is a wealth of information and advice on a wide range of SEND issues, and includes webinars & opportunities for booking workshops.

Starting this week(13/03), when you email us for help, you will receive an auto reply with links to information and advice on our website, so you can just click to find what you need. We hope this will be helpful.

You may receive a follow up email from one of our Advisors, if we can see you may need more tailored

An update on managing demands on our service, and on the way we support parent/ carers, children, & young people, from Victoria Hunt - SENDiass4BCP Manager

“We want to make sure that information and advice is provided in a timely way and that you are able to get what you need, when you need it. This is especially important as currently requests for support from SENDiass4BCP, have been increasing at a pace.

For the time being, we are unable to attend face to face school meetings & TAF meetings, unless there are significant extenuating and complex circumstances – this is due to us being particularly busy.
We are still able to support you in preparing for meetings - please contact us in plenty of time.
We continue to provide email and phone support, videos on our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLzmZYKx8HsL8ANPO2qfpgQ) , and both online and in-person workshops (https://sendiass4bcp.org/events/).
Thank you.

Next Thursday the 2nd of March, we'll be at Somerford Arc drop in to answer questions. For this months visiting professional, BCP Council are sending Tanis Middlemiss, manager of the School Inclusion team, should you wish to ask general questions of her as well, please feel free. We hope to see you then. 🙂

Over half term (13th & 19th of Feb), we will be closed to new queries. We will still be supporting people awaiting a response.
Should you need help, we've FactSheets & other support at https://sendiass4bcp.org
We also have our workshops, register to attend at https://sendiass4bcp.org/events
Take a look at our YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLzmZYKx8HsL8ANPO2qfpgQ

Should you have a more urgent support need, the charity Contact can also support you. Their website is https://contact.org.uk/, their phone is 08088 083555

The NHS England Youth Forum is a group of young people who are passionate about improving the NHS. They work with NHS England, Public Health England, and the Dept. of Health.

One of the things they are doing this year is trying to develop easy-read health resources for children and young people, on social media, hoping to make it more user friendly. They particularly would like children and young people with SEND to take part in the survey below.
Thanks.

https://forms.office.com/e/4h3QvqMeXs

We still have spaces for our upcoming online events this Wednesday. If you are looking for support with making a parental request for an EHCNA, or in completing your Parent Carer Contribution form, these free-of-charge, Officer-led webinars will go through everything you need to know.
For more information take a look at our events page: https://sendiass4bcp.org/events/

While we are closed over the bank holidays, there will be some staff working over the Christmas and New Year period. There may be a delay in us responding to your query, and in-depth support will be followed up in the New Year.

Outside of the Bank Holidays, our phone line will be available as 09:30-12:30, on 28/12 and 29/12, before returning on the 03/01/2023

We also have info and videos on our web & YouTube

https://sendiass4bcp.org/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLzmZYKx8HsL8ANPO2qfpgQ

Merry Christmas & Festive times!

We have a number of events coming up in the New Year, some online, some in person. Take a look at the Events page on our website for details. Currently we have spaces available for our January workshops on:
Making a Parental Request(for an EHCP) Workshop (Online)
Parent Carer and Child (EHCP)Contributions Workshop (Online)

https://sendiass4bcp.org/events/

Thanks for your patience - our emails are now back up and running. We are very busy at the moment though, so they is likely to be a delay in us getting back to you - but we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Very sorry - we have been advised that some of those trying to contact us by email are not able to get through, and are finding their emails bouncing. We have our IT team on the case, and hopefully we'll be receiving emails as normal by tomorrow afternoon - we will post updates as soon as we have them.

We are still able to send emails, so if you are waiting for a response, and have received an auto-response from us, then we will be in touch as soon as we can.

Thanks for your patience. 🙂

Whilst we find our feet, we will be beginning with our workshops on Making a Parental Request and Parent Carer and Child Contributions. Find out more when our website is released!
We would welcome any feedback you may have on the new site and a link to provide feedback will be made available. We already have further developments planned in the background but we'd love to hear what you think!