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 via telephone or face-to-face meetings.
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.
We get involved with:
- children who are having problems with learning in school
- children with behavioural/emotional/social difficulties/school anxiety/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- children at School Action/School Action Plus
- accompanying parents to meetings at school/with the council to mediate and provide a solution focussed approach
- 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 within and outside the council
- 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
- run Dyslexia support groups
- run school anxiety support groups
- providing information guides for parents
- information workshops on how to apply for statements
- support in starting parent support groups in schools.
Children, young people and families
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