Essex SENDIAS service

A confidential and impartial information, advice and support service on SEND issues.
Age: 0 to 25
Areas: Essex
Cost: Free

Service description

They can help by:

  • listening to your concerns and explaining what options are available
  • explaining how education settings can support children and young people with special educational needs/a disability
  • giving you information about what the law is and what your choices are, to help you make your own decisions
  • supporting you where required at meetings and helping you to get your views across
  • finding voluntary groups and other agencies that can also support you, with the help of the Essex Local Offer
  • guiding you through the Education, Health and Care Needs assessment process
  • supporting you in discussions with education settings and the local authority where a child or young person is at risk of exclusion or has been excluded
  • advise you on processes for resolving disagreements, SEND Tribunal processes and means of redress
  • consulting parents, children and young people and ensuring your views influence the development of local policy and practice for children and young people with special educational needs and disability
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