Type of service: Family support and information services, Parent partnerships, Parent partnerships

Formerly known as "Hillingdon Parent Partnership" the service is funded by the LEA to be an arms length service and offers parents/carers a free and confidential service. The Service aims to ensure that parents/carers are able to play an informed part in any decisions about the educational provision made to meet their your child's special educational needs and to build partnerships between parents/carers, the LEA and schools. The Parent Partnership Service offers: a confidential Helpline for parents/carers; verbal and written information; help to complete forms and to understand complex documents and reports; information sessions and conferences for parents/carers' groups; mediation; training for school and LEA staff'; advice on rights and responsibilities; support at meetings; support through the statutory assessment process (statementing); access to Independent Parental Supporters; Positive about Parenting groups running regularly in local schools; Information about Hillingdon's procedures for the identification and assessment of SEN; Parent/carer support groups; support through exclusion for parents/carers of children with SEN; where appropriate referral on to statutory or voluntary organisations working with relevant agencies to support parents/carers who have difficulty accessing services, perhaps because English is an additional language, because of their culture, or because they have learning difficulties themselves.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of a young person, Young person

Gender: All genders