IASS April 2023 E- Bulletin

Transition Tips

This workshop will be particularly helpful for parents and carers who have a child transitioning to secondary school or any other change in school or college setting.

We will explore tried and tested tips to help a smooth transition and use Person Centred Planning tools to explore different ways for you to plan transition and identify the things that are important for your child’s transition.

Thursday 18^th May 09.45am – 11.15am

Low Hill Strengthening Families Hub

26- 28 Fourth Avenue, WV10 9LZ

Book your place via Eventbrite

Demystifying the EHCP
Annual Review Process

This workshop is particularly for parents and carers who have a child with an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP).

We will explain the EHCP Annual Review process, who is responsible for the Annual Review,  help you understand timescales, what happens in the process, and what the outcomes could be following an Annual Review.

Wednesday 5^th July 09.45am – 11.15am

Low Hill Strengthening Families Hub

26- 28 Fourth Avenue, WV10 9LZ

Book your place via Eventbrite

SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan Roadmap

In March the Government published its roadmap for improving SEND and Alternate provision in response to the SEND Review: Right support, right place, right time. In the Green Paper which was published last year the Government set out its vision for a single, national SEND and alternative provision system that will introduce new standards in the quality of support given to children across education, health and care. The SEND and alternative provision roadmap - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) sets out how the Government proposes to do this over the next two years.

For more information read: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan (publishing.service.gov.uk)

There is also an Easy Read version: SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan (councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk)

Watch this short animation to find out about the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan.

Princes Trust:
Personal Development Programme

The Prince's Trust alongside City of Wolverhampton College are recruiting for 16-25 year olds currently not in education, employment or training, to join their exciting 12 weeks’ programme.

The 12 week personal development programme gives young people a chance to gain new skills, take a qualification and meet new people.

Register by Monday 24 April here. 

Family Fund:
Your Opportunity

If you are the main carer of a disabled young person aged 18-24 years old, who lives at home, you could be eligible for a Your Opportunity grant.

The funds can support personal care, access to social activities, further training, communication tools, therapies, medical treatments and specialist resources.

To discover if you are eligible and apply click here.

National Deaf Children's Society: Upcoming events

The National Deaf Children's Society is hosting a number of virtual family sessions over the coming months including online family sign language courses and weekly Happy Hands (0-4 years).

Find their full list of events and book your place here.

Speech and Language UK: Ages and stages guides

Speech and language UK offers its Ages and Stages guides to help parents, carers an professionals understand the typical language and communication milestones in babies, children and young people. 

View here.

Childline Anti Bullying

Childline has created a page which explores and gives advice regarding appearance-based bullying.

Advice includes: talk to someone you trust, like a parent or teacher about what's happening, talk to a counsellor for support & get support from other people on our message boards. To view click here.

ADHD Foundation:
Live streaming training for education professionals

The ADHD Foundation is delivering live streaming training sessions for education professionals to develop their understand of supporting pupils with ADHD.

Topics include multi sensory approaches, supporting executive functioning, sensory circuits, dual diagnosis, attachment and trauma, presentation in females and creating an enabling environment.

To find out more and book your place click here. 

Winston's Wish:
Childhood bereavement training
for education professionals 

Are you an education professional wanting to develop your abilities on supporting children that have experienced the loss of a loved one?

Winston's Wish offers its free introductory training to education professionals supporting childhood bereavement.

The module covers what childhood bereavement is, how grief affects a child and dealing with a bereavement in school.

To register click here.

IPSEA free webinar: The SEND journey and your rights as a parent/carer

IPSEA is offering Parents and carers access to its webinar recording of
'The SEND journey and your rights'.

The session is delivered by IPSEA's legal team and discusses
support available and what your child is legally entitled to.

To request click here.

Share your news

We aim to share uplifting stories and good news events from around our wonderful Wolverhampton area! 

If you run services or activities for children with a Special Educational Need or Disability or support their families, we would love to hear from you! 

Also, if you have a happy news story or wish to celebrate the great work of an organisation, please email ias.service@wolverhampton.gov.uk. Please attach a photo or videos and a short blurb to feature. 

We send out the e-bulletin monthly around the first Monday of the month, so we would appreciate this being sent to us by the middle of the previous week.

Our next e-bulletin will be shared on 1 May so please send any inserts by 26 April 2023.