Here you will find opportunities for you to share your thoughts and ideas directly! Check out the below links where you can share your voice:
- Share your thoughts on our Padlets and let your voice be heard!
- Surveys: Take part in our surveys to share your opinions and ideas.
- Local Authority Consultations: Your input in Local Authority consultations is crucial!
- Our annual survey, we use this to focus our work on the areas that are most important to you. It is independently run by us and results will come directly to us. The anonymised results will be shared with OFSTED or the Department of Education (DfE) during any inspections of SEND services.
When you share your voice through these platforms, you're helping us bring your words straight into strategic meetings/workstreams. Together, we can influence, shape, and make positive changes for all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in West Northamptonshire.
Let's make a difference together!
These will be fed back directly into strategic meetings within West Northants:
SEND in West Northants: What's working well?
SEND within West Northants: How could it be better?
SEND in West Northants: What's not working well?
What Therapeutic services does your child and/or young person attend?
Emotionally Based School Avoidance
One Page Profiles
Communicating & Gaining Information
What questions do you feel are important to ask at an EHCP annual review ?
What questions in an annual review should be asked to parents to gain a comprehensive view of your child’s needs and progress?
West Northants Council Consultations:
Other opportunities to contribute your voice:
Northamptonshire Childrens Trust have these surveys running
They are for parents who have / previously had / or tried to previously have a direct payment for a personal assistant. There are two surveys, one for parents and one for PAs themselves. If these could be shared asking parents to complete the parent survey and forward on the PA survey to their PAs if appropriate.
Click here for the parent carers survey
Click here for the PA's survey
They also have this currently open too:
To help us improve our services we know that feedback from our children and young people is critical and capturing their voice is essential to help shape our improvements. This will help us to understand what’s working well, what isn’t working well, and what could be improved.
By participating in this survey, they will be entered into a prize draw with the chance of winning:
An Apple iPad
£100 Amazon Voucher
£50 Amazon Voucher
We can’t wait to hear their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and creative solutions.
The survey is organised into topics asking our children and young people to think about each one carefully and answer questions on this. The topics are;
Your home – Wherever they are living whether that is in foster care, in a residential home, with family or friends etc.
Your education – This could be their school, college, university or declaring that they are not in education
Your health – Including both physical and mental health support
The team around you – This includes whoever they recognise as the team around them such as, social worker, family support worker, foster carer, birth family, teacher etc.
Your independence – Including free time, independence skills and spending time with family.
It will only take 10 minutes and is a simple online form here.
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