Together achieving better decisions and brighter futures for Manchester families of children and young people aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Yesterday, we received the following letter from Julie Hicklin, Manchester City Council's SEND Lead, wishing all parents & carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) the very best for the Christmas holidays and the coming year. The local authority
This festive season, we are again looking to develop a virtual card-sending feature on our website, so that our SEND community can send free virtual Christmas cards to family and friends. Can You Help? To be able to do this, we want YOUR help
Today, we received the following letter from Amanda Corcoran, Manchester City Council's Director of Education, thanking all parents and carers who got involved during a Local Area SEND Inspection in November. It is a message for everyone who gave feedback to the inspectors, whether through
This holiday season, we have again partnered with 4CT Limited to deliver the popular "Happy, Active, Healthy (HAH) SEND Packs" to families in Manchester. It's like the paperbag sensory and activity kits that we introduced last year - but with an Explore Manchester and health
Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors will be coming to Manchester next week to assess how effective our local area is at identifying and meeting the needs of children & young people who have Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). The inspection will
Today, we received the following letter from Manchester City Council, where they give an overview of what happens during a Local Area SEND Inspection and ask parents & carers to take part in a survey that Ofsted & the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published as
This was recently shared to us by a fellow Manchester parent-carer who works with the Salford Autism Exercise Project: We have our last set of swimming sessions starting in January and are currently looking for participants. Your child should be between 7-11 years with a
Following the success of last summer's Happy, Active, Healthy Packs, we are again working in partnership with 4CT Limited to deliver activity, information and healthy eating packs to families of children or young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) who receive Free School
We are sorry to say that the Dads' Support Group that we co-host with buzz Manchester Health and Wellbeing Service will now be postponed for the foreseeable future. This decision hasn’t be made lightly; however, with a consistent number of sessions having no attendees over
Over the past few months, we've heard from a number of parents and carers about issues they've encountered with regards to school transport. We raised your concerns, as well as a request to make public the home-to-school transport policy, to strategic contacts within Manchester
