SEND East Riding Local Offer Bulletin

East Riding of Yorkshire Council sent this bulletin at 29-05-2025 09:00 AM BST

Thursday 29 May 2025

News Articles

For the attention of parents and carers that have used the FISH service

The Families Information Service are currently in the process of renewing their Families First Quality Assurance Award. As part of the assessment process the external assessor would like to speak to parents and carers regarding their experience of using the FISH service. This may have been at previous events held by FISH or information you have received via the helpline. If you or anyone else you may know might be interested in providing feedback, please contact FISH via fish@eastriding.gov.uk.

The feedback process will involve a 15 minute telephone call with the assessor on either Monday 7 July and Tuesday 8 July. If you require any further information please contact us.

Lifestyle 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Humberside Police’s summer youth engagement project is back for 2025!

Lifestyle is our longest-running youth engagement event, inspiring young people since 1989 to make a positive impact in their communities through innovative, fun-filled, and inspiring projects during their summer holidays. Each year, we witness incredible dedication from young individuals who strive to improve their neighbourhoods, showcasing exceptional organization and teamwork to achieve their Lifestyle goals. From awareness campaigns to cleaning up public spaces, from raising money for charities to supporting community centres, from creating memorials to leaving Kindness Rocks, from raising money for a defibrillator to helping out at care homes, from road safety campaigns to donating care packages – the list of young people’s amazing summer actions is humbling.

Lifestyle is open to 10-16 year olds, either in small teams of 2-5 members or as larger youth teams representing youth clubs. This programme offers Humberside’s young people the chance to fill their summer with enjoyable activities that benefit their communities. You can find out more about Lifestyle on our new dedicated website: Humberside Police Lifestyle – Making a Difference, where registration will open soon. The website also features a promotional video that you can share with your young people. Additionally, you can discover the fantastic prizes for winning teams, including the chance to win a trip to Paris or £500 for a youth club!

Final opportunity to contribute to our SEND and Inclusion Strategy

Since the launch of our Big Listen Consultation in October 2024, we have been gathering feedback on our SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) and Inclusion Strategy. We want to give you one last chance to share your thoughts and ensure that the strategy fully reflects the needs and aspirations of children and young people in the East Riding.

A summary of what’s happened so far:

Round 1 (October – January)
We launched ‘The Big Listen,’ our SEND and Inclusion Strategy Consultation, on Monday, 14 October 2024. Throughout the consultation, we’ve worked hard to reach as many people as possible, including parents, carers, and local community members, to learn about the issues that matter most. We’ve used a variety of methods to gather views, including local events, meetings with community groups, and an online consultation.

Alongside the online survey, we’ve held co-production events with parents, professionals, and young people with SEND. These sessions have been well attended, with over 100 participants. During our first co-production session, attendees identified six key priorities to be included in the strategy:

Six Priorities Identified:

Transitions
Culture and Communication
Governance
Partnerships
Timely Support
Learning, Development and Impact
From November 2024 to January 2025, we continued to explore these priorities in further sessions. We’ve also shared local strategies and discussed how we can address these key areas.

The ‘Big Listen’ survey closed on 31 December and received over 600 responses. The top three priorities identified by respondents were:

Early identification of needs
Strong transitions and preparation for the future
Ensuring the right number of settings in the right locations

Comments from respondents highlighted the importance of strengthening support for parents and carers, ensuring adequate funding, early intervention, and joined-up services, as well as providing workforce training.

Voice of Children and Young People
We’ve made sure that the voices of children and young people are heard through school visits, including primary, secondary, and specialist settings. This will continue as the strategy develops. If you have a group of children or young people we can visit, please get in touch by emailing localoffer@eastriding.gov.uk

Round 2 (February – April)

Following the co-production sessions in January, we’ve continued to build on the feedback we’ve received. We’ve attended additional events across the county and offered virtual sessions. We’ve also continued visiting schools and groups to ensure that as many voices as possible are heard.

Share Your Views – Make Sure Your Voice Is Heard!
We now invite all families, carers, and community members to share any additional thoughts or feedback. Your input will help us ensure that the final strategy reflects the true needs of children and young people in the East Riding.

Please send your comments and ideas to localoffer@eastriding.gov.uk by Friday, 6 June.

We truly appreciate the valuable insights shared so far, and we look forward to finalising a strategy that will make a real difference for SEND and Inclusion in our community.

Solihull Parenting Approach

Here at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, we’re committed to strengthening family relationships and improving the wellbeing of children and young people. With this in mind, our family help team has launched the Solihull Parenting Approach offer.

The Solihull Parenting Approach provides all families with high-quality, evidence-based parenting guidance.

The online guides offer accessible, expert-led advice to help parents and carers understand the emotional health and brain development of children and young people. This will be complemented by face-to-face group sessions, delivered by our family help teams in partnership with schools and other groups.

As a council, we are dedicated to supporting parents, carers, and professionals in nurturing confident, emotionally aware children. The introduction of these guides is an important step in our redesigned family help model, ensuring families across East Riding have the right support at the right time.

Simply use your East Riding postcode and enter the access code PUFFIN to create your account.

Events

Developing a Framework for Co-Production in East Riding

On the 26 March 2025, we jointly hosted the RISE Partnership workshop, ‘Developing a Framework for Co-Production in East Riding’ alongside the East Yorkshire Parent Carer Forum (EYPCF). Guided by experts from the National Children’s Bureau – Council for Disabled Children and insights from Andrea Greenwood (POINT Oldham), we explored meaningful ways to strengthen co-production efforts.

Now, it’s time for the next steps. Help us shape the future framework by sharing your thoughts on what you think our updated charter should include and look like. Your insights will directly influence how we strengthen collaboration, clarify responsibilities and ensure more effective co-production moving forward.

Join us at our upcoming in person workshop:

Date: Monday, 16 June

Time: 10am – 2pm (Drop in anytime or stay for the full session)

Location: Warton Arms, Hull Road, Woodmansey, Beverley, HU17 0TH

RSVP: Please confirm attendance by emailing localoffer@eastriding.gov.uk

East Yorkshire Parent Carer Forum

EYPCF – Volunteering Opportunities

Are you a parent/carer of a child 0-25 with SEND and want to share your experience and knowledge to help improve lives for families across the East Riding?

Being a volunteer of the Steering Group involves representing the PCF at meetings with the local authority, health, and other external organisations alongside other PCF Steering Group members, attending and helping at EYPCF events, check-in and chats, and workshops around the region.

Clearly time is an important element, our experience shows that those who have children linked into local SEND provision are passionate about getting the best care, not only for their own children, but for others too. So many of the parents who come to us for advice are happy to pass on their own experiences in meetings and in consultations.

If you are interested in finding out more, please email admin@eypcf.co.uk.

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