Parent Partnership Barnet
Parent Partnership Barnet offers free, confidential, impartial information, guidance, advice and support for parents/carers of children with special and additional educational needs.
The service is available to all parents of children with a special or additional educational need that is between the ages of 0 – 19 years.
What do we get involved with?
- Children who are having problems with learning in school
- Children with behavioural/emotional/social difficulties
- Children at School Action/School Action Plus
- Accompanying parents to meetings at school/with the council
- Supporting parents at and in preparation for annual reviews
- Helping parents to write letters to school/ council
- Applications for statutory assessment
- When the council decides not to commence a statutory assessment
- Exclusions – fixed term and permanent
- Secondary transfer
- Issues around school placement
- Signposting parents to other services
- Help with appeals to Special Educational Needs Disability Tribunal (SENDIST), but not attending tribunals.
We also offer other services:
- Training and information workshops for parents
- Drop-ins for parents at schools and Children Centres
- Providing information guides for parents
- Support in starting parent support groups in schools.
Have your say about the Parent Partnership Barnet
- Evaluation form
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