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)
It's been five years since MPCF launched in March 2017 and four years since the launch of the SEND Co-production Charter back in 2018. Please click this image to view the SEND Co-production Charter in full. Manchester has come quite a way towards
Manchester Day, the annual celebration of "everything great about the city," is back this year after two years of hiatus due to the Covid pandemic. As part of Manchester's Our Year programme, this year's celebration will focus on our city's children and young people.
Please see below a letter explaining some changes to the Social Communication Pathway (SCP) referral process. In summary, the changes are: For Early Years children (aged 3 to 5): The SCP will only accept referrals for those who have had exposure to community group
As part of the Our Year campaign, Manchester City Council, in partnership with Blachere Illumination, are running a competition for children and young people to design a new Christmas motif. The competition offers a fantastic creative art project capturing the imagination of Manchester’s children
Manchester City Council is undertaking a service review of Talbot House Support Centre and they would like to hear from families who have accessed service. If you have accessed or have been supported by Talbot House within the past 3 years, please either book for
We are pleased to share that there are plenty of FREE activities that Manchester's SEND families can access over the Easter holidays. This is part of a packed SEND Community Offer for families living in the Manchester City Council area. Cycling & Egg Hunt
Below is a message from the co-chairs of Greater Manchester (GM) Parent/Carer Workstream for the GM Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP): Hello, Parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) are an often overlooked group of
We recently received the following message from Sarah Maunder, who is the Fundraising Officer for Stockdales: Hello I work for Stockdales in Sale, we are a Charity who support Adults & Children with Learning Disabilities and we are re-launching our Dream Days Project. Dream
Over the past few months, there has been an effort in Manchester to reform services for children with disabilities (CWD) and their families. As part of this wider reform, it has been proposed that the specialist social work services for CWD will be de-centralised from
Back in October 2019, a group of parents and carers got together to form an EHCP moderation panel that looks at the quality of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) in Manchester. We received training from Manchester City Council and have since met a couple
