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SEND News Archive

SEND News Archive

Here you can find out the latest about what’s going on with SEND services in Somerset

Here you can find out the latest about what’s going on with SEND services in Somerset

SEND Newsletters 2019
6 November 2019
23 October 2019
16 October 2019
09 October 2019
02 October 2019
25 September 2019
20 September 2019 - Special Edition
18 September 2019
17 July 2019
10 July 2019
04 July 2019
26 June 2019
19 June 2019
12 June 2019
5 June 2019
22 May 2019
15 May 2019
8 May 2019
1 May 2019
24 April 2019
3 April 2019
27 March 2019
1 May 2019
24 April 2019
3 April 2019
27 March 2019
20 March 2019
13 March 2019
6 March 2019
27 February 2019
13 February 2019
6 February 2019
Access to Work Fund
  • General information
Accessible Somerset
  • General information
  • - Accessible toilets and changing places
Accessible toilets and changing places
  • General information
Accessing Speech and Language Therapy in Somerset
  • General information
Accident prevention
  • General information
Activities for families
  • General information
Activity passes and discounts
  • General information
Add a new event
  • General information
Add a SEND provider
  • General information
Add event
  • General information
Adult Social Care
  • General information
Advice and advocacy
  • General information
  • - MindEd for Families
  • - Living with autism
  • - Independent supporters
Anxiety about attending school
  • General information
Applying to start school
  • General information
Apprenticeships
  • General information
Babysitters
  • General information
Before and after school clubs
  • General information
Being the parent of a teenager
  • General information
Benefits
  • General information
  • - Universal Credit
  • - Employment Support Allowance
  • - Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Carers Allowance
  • - Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
  • - Child Tax Credit (including Disability element)
Bereavement and loss
  • General information
Better Journey Cards
  • General information
Blue badges and disabled parking
  • General information
Breastfeeding
  • General information
Bullying and harassment
  • General information
Carers
  • General information
  • - Caring for someone with a mental health condition
  • - Equipment and adaptations
  • - Short breaks for carers
  • - Sibling support
  • - Young Carers
  • - Carers Allowance
  • - Carers assessments
Carers Allowance
  • General information
Carers assessments
  • General information
Caring for someone with a mental health condition
  • General information
Child sexual exploitation
  • General information
Child Tax Credit (including Disability element)
  • General information
Childcare
  • General information
  • - Early Help
  • - Early years
  • - Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
  • - Fostering and adoption
  • - Finding childcare
  • - Complain about a childcare provider
Childcare funding arrangements
  • General information
Childminders
  • General information
Children and Young People’s Voice
  • General information
Children’s short breaks
  • General information
Choosing a school
  • General information
Choosing your next school or college
  • General information
Choosing your own support
  • General information
Colleges in Somerset
  • General information
Community transport
  • General information
Complain about a childcare provider
  • General information
Concerns about your child’s hearing
  • General information
Coronavirus – Children’s Social Care update
  • General information
Coronavirus – Useful links and information
  • General information
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • General information
  • - Coronavirus Hospital Passport
  • - Coronavirus – Useful links and information
  • - Coronavirus – Children’s Social Care update
Coronavirus Hospital Passport
  • General information
Crèches
  • General information
Day nurseries
  • General information
Democracy and young people
  • General information
Dentist
  • General information
Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Carers Allowance
  • General information
Disagreements and help to solve them
  • General information
Disclaimer
  • General information
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
  • General information
Discussing things
  • General information
  • - Bereavement and loss
  • - You said, we did
  • - Keeping safe
  • - Disagreements and help to solve them
  • - Local and national support groups
  • - Engagement and Participation
  • - Advice and advocacy
Domestic abuse
  • General information
Duke of Edinburgh Award
  • General information
Early Help
  • General information
  • - Early Help Assessments (EHA)
Early Help Assessments (EHA)
  • General information
Early years
  • General information
  • - Funded Early Years places and eligibility
  • - Early Years funding
Early Years funding
  • General information
Education
  • General information
  • - Colleges in Somerset
  • - Special Provision Capital Fund – Somerset’s Plan
  • - Further education
  • - Funding system
  • - What to expect from education
  • - Education, Health and Care Plans
  • - School transport
  • - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities provision
Education support for young people over 16
  • General information
Education, Health and Care Plans
  • General information
  • - How to find out the progress of an EHC Assessment
  • - Tribunals – single route of redress
  • - Supporting families with EHC plans
  • - Raising concerns about EHC plans
  • - Making a referral for an EHC Needs Assessment
Employment Support Allowance
  • General information
Engagement and Participation
  • General information
  • - Parent Carer Voice
  • - Having your voice heard
  • - Children and Young People’s Voice
  • - What is Co-production?
English as an additional language (EAL)
  • General information
Equipment and adaptations
  • General information
Event results
  • General information
Events
  • General information
Extremism
  • General information
Feedback
  • General information
Finding and keeping a job
  • General information
  • - Access to Work Fund
  • - Apprenticeships
  • - Supported internships
  • - Traineeships
  • - Support for work
Finding childcare
  • General information
  • - Crèches
  • - Holiday clubs and play schemes
  • - Before and after school clubs
  • - Foundation Units and Nursery classes
  • - Day nurseries
  • - Pre-schools (playgroups)
  • - Childminders
  • - Babysitters
  • - Nannies
Finding things to do in your spare time
  • General information
  • - Leisure Centres
  • - Democracy and young people
  • - Duke of Edinburgh Award
  • - Somerset Max Card
  • - Activity passes and discounts
Flexible working – parents’ rights
  • General information
Fostering and adoption
  • General information
Foundation Units and Nursery classes
  • General information
Free school meals
  • General information
Funded Early Years places and eligibility
  • General information
Funding system
  • General information
Further education
  • General information
  • - Education support for young people over 16
  • - Higher education
  • - Support moving between different education stages
Grants and discounts
  • General information
Hate crimes
  • General information
Having your voice heard
  • General information
Health
  • General information
  • - Targeted health services
  • - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • - Universal care services and SEND
  • - Health emergencies
  • - The Somerset Autism Collection
  • - Somerset’s Transformation Plan
  • - Moving between children’s and adults healthcare
  • - Parenting
  • - Immunisation
  • - Health transport
Health emergencies
  • General information
Health transport
  • General information
Health Visitors
  • General information
Help us build it
  • General information
Helpful tips from Somerset parents
  • General information
Higher education
  • General information
Holiday clubs and play schemes
  • General information
Home
  • General information
Home
  • General information
Housing
  • General information
How to find out the progress of an EHC Assessment
  • General information
Immunisation
  • General information
Important care documents
  • General information
Important education documents
  • General information
Important health documents
  • General information
Improving Outcomes for Children and Young people with SEND
  • General information
  • - SEND Outcomes Framework – Children and Young people
Independent supporters
  • General information
Independent Travel Training
  • General information
IP6 – Education
  • General information
Job coaches
  • General information
Keeping our Local Offer up to date
  • General information
Keeping safe
  • General information
  • - Extremism
  • - Keeping safe online
  • - Victim and witness care
  • - Safe Places Scheme
  • - Personal safety
  • - Accident prevention
  • - Hate crimes
  • - Bullying and harassment
  • - Domestic abuse
  • - Child sexual exploitation
  • - Suspected abuse and neglect
Keeping safe online
  • General information
Leaving care
  • General information
Legal and guidance
  • General information
Leisure
  • General information
  • - Activities for families
  • - Better Journey Cards
  • - Accessible Somerset
  • - Museums
  • - Libraries
  • - Parks and play areas
Leisure Centres
  • General information
Libraries
  • General information
LifeHacks – young mental health project
  • General information
Living more independently
  • General information
  • - Owning your home
  • - Renting somewhere to live
  • - Young parent services
  • - Targeted Youth Support
  • - Youth offending
  • - LifeHacks – young mental health project
  • - Transition
  • - Community transport
  • - Independent Travel Training
  • - Leaving care
  • - Adult Social Care
  • - Moving to Adult Social Care services
  • - Your future
Living with autism
  • General information
Local and national support groups
  • General information
Local Offer – neighbouring authorities
  • General information
Local Offer Annual Reports
  • General information
Local Offer Feedback
  • General information
Making a referral for an EHC Needs Assessment
  • General information
Medical tuition
  • General information
MindEd for Families
  • General information
Mobility equipment
  • General information
Mobility scheme
  • General information
Money advice
  • General information
  • - Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
  • - Childcare funding arrangements
  • - Grants and discounts
Money, benefits and funding
  • General information
  • - Benefits
  • - Housing
  • - Money advice
Moving between children’s and adults healthcare
  • General information
Moving to Adult Social Care services
  • General information
Museums
  • General information
Nannies
  • General information
Owning your home
  • General information
Paediatric Continence Service
  • General information
Parent Carer Voice
  • General information
Parenting
  • General information
  • - Concerns about your child’s hearing
  • - Pregnancy
  • - Parenting programmes in Somerset
  • - Being the parent of a teenager
  • - Helpful tips from Somerset parents
  • - Breastfeeding
Parenting programmes in Somerset
  • General information
Parks and play areas
  • General information
Pathway for Community Children’s Nursing Services
  • General information
Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
  • General information
Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
  • General information
Personal safety
  • General information
Pharmacies
  • General information
Pre-schools (playgroups)
  • General information
Pregnancy
  • General information
Preparing for adult life
  • General information
  • - Finding and keeping a job
  • - Finding things to do in your spare time
  • - Living more independently
  • - Staying safe and healthy
  • - Choosing your next school or college
Raising concerns about EHC plans
  • General information
Renting somewhere to live
  • General information
Results
  • General information
Safe Places Scheme
  • General information
School attendance
  • General information
School nurses
  • General information
School transport
  • General information
SEND Improvement Board
  • General information
SEND News
  • General information
SEND News Archive
  • General information
SEND Outcomes Framework – Children and Young people
  • General information
Short breaks for carers
  • General information
Sibling support
  • General information
Social care
  • General information
  • - Children’s short breaks
  • - Carers
  • - Mobility scheme
  • - Mobility equipment
  • - Blue badges and disabled parking
Somerset Max Card
  • General information
Somerset Short Breaks Statement – You said, we did
  • General information
Somerset’s plan for improving SEND services
  • General information
  • - IP6 – Education
  • - Improving Outcomes for Children and Young people with SEND
  • - SEND Improvement Board
Somerset’s Transformation Plan
  • General information
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities provision
  • General information
Special Provision Capital Fund – Somerset’s Plan
  • General information
Staying safe and healthy
  • General information
Support for work
  • General information
Support moving between different education stages
  • General information
Supported internships
  • General information
Supporting families with EHC plans
  • General information
Suspected abuse and neglect
  • General information
Targeted health services
  • General information
  • - Pathway for Community Children’s Nursing Services
  • - Paediatric Continence Service
  • - Accessing Speech and Language Therapy in Somerset
Targeted Youth Support
  • General information
test
  • General information
The Local Offer
  • General information
  • - Somerset’s plan for improving SEND services
  • - What SEND professionals do
  • - Useful documents
  • - What is the Local Offer?
The Somerset Autism Collection
  • General information
Traineeships
  • General information
Transition
  • General information
Transition between phases of education
  • General information
Tribunals – single route of redress
  • General information
Universal care services and SEND
  • General information
  • - Pharmacies
  • - Health Visitors
  • - Your doctor
  • - Dentist
  • - School nurses
Universal Credit
  • General information
Unstoppables and Parent Carer Local Offer Co-production Workshop
  • General information
Useful documents
  • General information
  • - Legal and guidance
  • - Important care documents
  • - Important health documents
  • - Important education documents
Using Your Local Offer
  • General information
Victim and witness care
  • General information
What is Co-production?
  • General information
What is the Local Offer?
  • General information
  • - Keeping our Local Offer up to date
  • - Local Offer Annual Reports
  • - Local Offer – neighbouring authorities
What SEND professionals do
  • General information
What to expect from education
  • General information
  • - Flexible working – parents’ rights
  • - Anxiety about attending school
  • - English as an additional language (EAL)
  • - School attendance
  • - Free school meals
  • - Medical tuition
  • - Choosing a school
  • - Applying to start school
  • - Transition between phases of education
  • - Choosing your own support
You said, we did
  • General information
  • - Somerset Short Breaks Statement – You said, we did
  • - Unstoppables and Parent Carer Local Offer Co-production Workshop
  • - Local Offer Feedback
Young Carers
  • General information
Young parent services
  • General information
Your doctor
  • General information
Your future
  • General information
Youth offending
  • General information

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