Parent Partnership Service

The Parent Partnership Service provides support and information for parents and carers of children who have a wide range of Special Educational Needs in line with our policies regarding confidentiality and impartiality.

Our aim is to support parents and carers to enable them to play an active and valuable role in their children's education.

Working with Parents
Parent Partnership staff and volunteers work with parents and carers of children of all ages whatever their Special Educational Need. We are available to support parents and carers from the time that their child’s needs are first identified. We offer the following.

• Area Based Co-ordinators
• Information leaflets and guides about Special Educational Needs.
• One-to-one support for parents and carers, including help with educational reports and paperwork, through our Indepedent Parental Supporters - free training offer.
• Information sessions and support workshops for parents and carers 
• We also work closely with School Preference Advisers who are available to discuss any concerns parents or carers may have about applying for a school place and the admissions process.
• Question of the term / Parent Consultation
• Access to a disagreement resolution service, Cambridge Family Mediation Service, telephone number 01223 576308.
• Early Years Survey 2009 
• Belstead School - Parent Focus Groups

Working with Schools
The Parent Partnership Service offers various training opportunities to staff and governors and others working in schools, children’s centres, and early years settings.

• INSET Opportunities
• Governor training – Parent Voice and Special Educational Needs

Related information

Children's Commissioner's School Inquiry - Call for Evidence. 

The School Exclusions Inquiry will examine whether the current system and proposed changes to it are consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to which the UK is a signatory. From today we are calling on all interested people including children to play an active role in the School Exclusions Inquiry by downloading the consultation documentation and sending us their views and experience.

I urge you to respond by sending us your views (email: schoolexclusions.inquiry@ childrenscommissioner.gsi.gov.uk), so we can all focus on children’s rights – both those excluded, and those who remain in school and might have views that will challenge everybody’s thinking.   Children's Commissioner's School Inquiry

Do you have two or more children with an Autism Spectrum diagnosis?  Would you be willing to take part in a Family Study of Autism?

Latest News - The Government has published the Green Paper - Support and aspiration: a new approach to special educational needs and disability.  Full report at http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/sen/a0075339/sengreenpaper
General education at www.education.gov.uk

Suffolk parents contribute to the national Lamb Enquiry on Special Education Needs provision in our local schools.  Find out what they have to say.  Lamb Enquiry - Parents' Views.

Termly Summary Report - Spring 2011