Worcestershire’s Autism Umbrella ☂️pathway is being scrapped and replaced with a new children’s joint Autism and ADHD diagnosis pathway. Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust are looking to gather parent carers’ feedback on the proposed new pathway and…
This week 3 reps from Worcestershire Parent Carer Forum met with Cllr Emma Marshall (Chair of the Worcestershire County Council Children and Families Overview and Scrutiny Panel) and Cllr Steve Mackay (Cabinet Member with Responsibility for Children and Families) to…
The result & findings of the OFSTED & CQC inspection align with the perspectives shared by our members and ourselves, which makes them unsurprising. As representatives of the Parent Carer community, we are deeply troubled by the findings of the…
We have now submitted our evidence to the DfE and CQC inspectors. A very sincere thank you to everyone that shared their child or young persons’ experiences of SEND provision in Worcestershire over the last 6 months. The inspection is…
A sincere thank you to everyone that attended the Families in Partnership Annual General Meeting for the financial year 2022 to 2023. Congratulations to Berni Louise and Hazel Shaw for being elected as Interim Co-Chairs and to Iona Walton on…
As a stakeholder in Worcestershire’s education provision for SEND Children aged 0-25, Families in Partnership (FiP) had the privilege of being copied into an extremely significant letter sent by the Chair of Governors at Fort Royal Community Primary school to…
SENDIASS are the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information and Advice & Support Service for Worcestershire and fufils the statutory duty of the Local Authority to make arrangements for a service to meet the minimum standards outlined in Special Educational…
We promised you a much needed FiP rebrand, and we’re making progress. 💪Thank you to everyone that messaged, emailed, commented, voted or proposed a name for FiP. Overwhelmingly Worcestershire parent carers preferred the traditional, ‘does what it say on the…
FiP are contributing to the ‘Children and Young People’s Neurodevelopmental Care Pathway’ work that the ICB are currently undertaking. In simple terms, they are looking to redeisgn the 0-25 years Autism and/or ADHD diagnosis process in Worcestershire. We’d love to…
Calling All FiP Members! Last month your new FiP Steering Group (Berni, Hazel & Iona) set out our immediate priorities for FiP and these included updating our constitution. A working party was created and opened up to FiP members and…
