WPCF are pleased to be involved in today’s quality assurance visit to ‘deep dive’ the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) service here in Worcestershire. This visit was initiated following extensive feedback from parent carers to WPCF and Healthwatch.…
This week we attended the Local Area Partnership SEND ‘Deep Dive’ chaired by The Department for Education with support from The Care Quality Commission. Senior officers from Worcestershire County Council and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust were quizzed about their…
This week, 14 representatives of Worcestershire Parent Carer Forum met with senior officials from Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Attendees included Adam Johnston (Director of Children’s Services), Daniela Carson (Director of All-Age Disability),…
Yesterday Worcestershire Parent Carer Forum attended the ‘Senior Officials’ meeting chaired by Naomi Sharp from the West Midlands Vulnerable Children’s Unit, Department for Education. Also present were senior representatives from NHS England, Worcestershire County Council, Worcestershire Children First, Herefordshire and…
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…
