SEND Advice Surrey - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities information, advice and support

SEND Advice Surrey

Providing impartial information, advice and support to parents of children with special educational needs (Formerly known as 'SSIASS' and 'Surrey Parent Partnership')

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  • COVID-19
    • Qwell: Online Emotional Wellbeing Support for Surrey Parents and Carers
    • How To Use Microsoft (MS) Teams
    • Child-friendly explanation of the coronavirus
    • All About Me In Lockdown (resource)
    • Update from Global Mediation – March 2020
    • Who is Who in Early Years and Useful Information for Providers
    • Guidance on Tribunal Hearings
    • Educational Psychology offer during COVID-19
    • SEND Tribunal – Update for volunteers, parents and carers
    • COVID-19 – Not enough support from the LA / School during COVID-19 by IPSEA
    • Template Letters: Complaining when the LA / School is not using reasonable endeavours to secure special educational provision in an EHCP during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Government Guidance during COVID-19 IPSEA guidance – March 2020
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    • Schools
      • Academies
        • Academy Funding Agreements
        • Funding agreements
      • Access Arrangements
      • Bullying
      • Choosing a school
      • Exclusions
        • Factsheet (PDF)
      • Funding for SEN in mainstream schools
      • Having difficulties or not making progress
      • Help in exams / access arrangements (IPSEA)
      • Individual Education Plans (IEP)
      • Information that should be available to you
      • Out of school/no school place?
      • Preparing for the move to secondary school
      • Role of the SENCO
      • SEND support arrangements
      • SEN Support in mainstream schools
      • Special arrangements for pupils taking tests in KS1/2
      • Transport
        • School transport (LGSCO information sheet)
    • Advocacy
    • Annual review
      • EHC plans: Worries about choosing a secondary school
      • Flow chart
      • Refusing to attend school due to mental health needs
      • Timeframes
      • What is an Annual Review?
    • Appeals, tribunals and mediation
      • Appeals – After lodging your appeal
      • Appeals – email from Tribunal after a new appeal (SEND 35)
      • Appeals – Flow Chart
      • Appeal – How to complete the SEND 35a form (for a Refusal to Assess Appeal)
      • Appeals – Mediation
      • Appeals – Refusal to Assess
      • Appeal Process – Consent Orders
      • Appeals Process – Position Statement OR Chronology List / Timeline
      • Appeal Process – Refusal to Issue an EHCP
      • Appeal Process – Terminology
      • Appeal Process – Working Document and a Tribunal Bundle
      • If you don’t agree with a decision
      • Legal Aid for educational law matters
      • Mediation
        • Advice
      • One-page guide to challenging an EHCP decision (PDF)
      • Refusal to Assess pack (IPSEA)
    • Compliments, comments and complaints
      • Compliments, comments and complaints
      • Judicial Review from IPSEA
      • Adult social care complaints
      • NHS England – making feedback, concerns and complaints easier
      • What if I do not agree with decisions about SEN provision?
    • EHCPs
      • After you have checked a Plan (PDF)
      • Banding, special educational provision and EHC plans
      • ‘Best Endeavours’ duty
      • Ceasing an EHCP
      • Checking an EHCP
      • Concerns about an education, health and care plan
      • Changing an EHCP
      • EHCP and the section contents (PDF)
      • EHCP Planner (PDF)
      • EHC plans
      • EHC needs assessments
      • The duty to specify
      • Requesting Reassessment
    • Early Years
      • Early Years SEND Advisors
    • Meetings
    • Moving to Surrey
    • Out of school
      • Educating your child or young person at home – Elective Home Education (EHE)
      • Getting temporary education put in place
      • Support from the LA if my child is out of school for any other reason
    • Personal Budgets
      • Benefits and tax credits (contact.org)
      • Contact information sheet (PDF)
      • Local Offer guidance
      • Personal budgets for SEND
    • Post 16
      • Apprenticeships
      • Education entitlement for post 16
      • Employability
      • Extra help in education (Contact)
      • Employability (CfDC)
      • Life skills
      • Moving to adult social services
      • Moving to adult social services (CfDC)
    • SEN Support process
      • How it’s funded
      • In mainstream schools
    • Social care
      • If your child isn’t getting the right social care support
      • If your child’s care package is reduced
  • Model Letters
    • Asking for an early review of an EHC plan (template letter)
    • Asking for help in exams (template letter)
    • Chasing a final EHCP (template letter)
    • Complaining about failure to make provision in an EHCP (template letter)
    • Complaining when an LA refuses to consider the school you want in your EHC plan (template letter)
    • Complaining when the LA does not respond to assessment request (template letter)
    • Complaining when the assessment is not carried out properly (template letter)
    • Complaining when annual review not completed (model letter)
    • Complaining when you do not receive your draft or final plan on time (model letter)
    • Chasing a final EHCP (template letter)
    • Bullying first contact and formal complaint (template letters)
    • Making a request for an EHC needs assessment (template letter)
    • Objecting to proposed amendments to EHC plan (template letter)
    • Requesting an EHCP to be finalised (after 15th Feb)
    • Requesting a re-assessment (template letter)
    • Responding to your draft EHC plan (template letter)
    • Right to subject access request (template letter)
    • School refusal letter to school (template letter)
    • Template Letters: Complaining when the LA / School is not using reasonable endeavours to secure special educational provision in an EHCP during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Policies & Legislation
    • Surrey policies
      • Children, Schools and Families privacy notice
      • Complaints
      • Corporate privacy notice
      • Policy for dyslexia
      • Right Provision at the Right Time
      • Surrey Short Breaks for Disabled Children
      • Travel Assistance Policy: 0-25 years
    • Privacy notice
    • Legislation
      • Children and Families Act 2014, Part 3
      • The ‘Best Endeavours’ duty
      • The Equality Act 2010 (Disablity) Regulations 2010
      • SEND Code of Practice 0-25 years
      • SEND Regs 2014
      • What is the SEND Code of Practice?
  • Links
    • SEND information and advice providers
    • Ambitions About Autism toolkit
    • Cerebra
    • Contact (charity)
      • Overview (WORD)
    • Council for Disabled Children (CDC)
    • Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
    • National Autistic Society Surrey Branch
    • (Early Years) SEND Advisors
    • SEND Team contact details
    • Family Information Service
    • Family Voice Surrey
    • Special Needs Jungle
    • IPSEA
    • Local Offer Guide (CDC)
    • Surrey Local Offer

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