London Region Parent Carer Survey

Parent Carer Forums in London have come together to identify key areas of focus in the Department for Education's (DfE's) SEND Reform Consultation. We have concentrated on proposed reforms that have a corresponding question in the DfE's online consultation and there are free text fields for you to share your views on any aspect of the proposed SEND reforms.

Your responses will inform the NNPCF London Region response to the DfE consultation. Collective data and direct quotes from survey responses may be used to feedback parent carer views on SEND Reform to Parent Carer Forums in London and other regional and national partners.

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* 1. How have you accessed information about the Schools White Paper and SEND Reform Consultation (e.g. NNPCF London webinar, Special Needs Jungle Facebook page, the Department for Education website)?

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* 2. What are you most concerned about in the Schools White Paper and proposed SEND Reforms?

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* 3. What are you most hopeful about in the Schools White Paper and proposed SEND Reforms?

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* 4. An 'expert panel' will develop guidance that will underpin many aspects of SEND Reform. These will include:
  • National Inclusion Standards (these will create clear expectations for schools and college and inform updates to the SEND Code of Practice)
  • Specialist Provision Packages (these will determine the provision and placements that can be included in an Education, Health and Care Plan or EHCP)
How would parent carer representation on the expert panel affect your confidence in the resulting standards and guidance?

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* 5. Is there anything else you would like to tell us about the involvement of parent carers in creating National Inclusion Standards and Specialist Provision Packages?

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* 6. Every child with identified SEND will have an Individual Support Plan (ISP) under the proposed reforms. This will include children and young people who also have an EHCP. An Individual Support Plan will set out the day to day support and provision a child or young person needs in school or college.

How should disputes be resolved if there is disagreement about:
  • whether an ISP is needed?
  • what support should be included?
  • if support is being delivered?

  Yes Maybe No I'm not sure
Through the school’s internal complaints process
The SEND team from different school or Multi Academy Trust should mediate the dispute
By making an appeal to the Schools Community Trust (a group of schools in the same local area working in partnership with Local Authority, health, social care and parent carers)
The Local Authority should resolve the dispute

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* 7. The Experts at Hand initiative is intended to enable faster access to specialists like speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and educational psychology services for children and young people with SEND. It is backed by £1.8 billion of funding from central government. Parent Carers often have valuable expertise in supporting children and young people with SEND. How can this expertise support the development of the local Experts at Hand offer? Please select all that apply

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* 8. What support would help you to become actively involved in developing and delivering the Experts at Hand offer in your local area (e.g. childcare, being paid, training)?

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* 9. If you needed help to understand the new SEND system, to ensure that your child was getting the right support or to resolve a dispute, where would you want that help to come from? Please select all that apply.

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* 10. There are proposals to update the four ‘areas of need’ in the SEND Code of Practice to five new ‘areas of development’. Mental Health is no longer included under the proposed changes.

The current areas of need are:

• Cognition and Learning
• Sensory and Physical
• Communication and Interaction
• Social, Emotional and Mental Health

The proposed new ‘areas of development’ are:

• Executive Function
• Motor and Physical
• Sensory
• Language and Communication
• Social and Emotional

Do you think the 'areas of need' should be updated? Please tell us more about the reasons for your answer if you can.

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* 11. Is there anything else that you want to tell us about your views on the proposed SEND Reforms or Schools White Paper?

Thank you very much for sharing your views on the proposed SEND Reforms. We have a few more questions about you to help us ensure that we're representing parent carers with a variety of experiences.

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* 12. Which London Borough do you live in?

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* 13. What are the age ranges of the children and young people with SEND that you care for? Please select all that apply

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* 14. Do the children and young people with SEND that you care for have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)? Please tick all that apply

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* 15. What type of education, training or work are your children and young people accessing? Please tick all that apply

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