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Consultations

Please see below a list of all current and closed Royal Greenwich consultations within Children Services for you to keep up to date with.

Documents and Downloads are available to the right of the screen.

OPEN - Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Partnership Strategy for 2024-27

We are in the process of developing the Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Partnership Strategy for 2024-27. This is a key part of how we set local priorities when it comes to supporting children and young people with SEND and their families in Royal Greenwich.

The views of parents and carers are key to shaping this strategy and to help us gather these we have developed a brief survey together with Greenwich Parent Carer Participation Forum. We are also separately consulting with children and young people to ensure their voices are heard as well.

Parents and Carers- Please take a few minutes to complete the survey below to help us understand your experience and your views.

https://form.jotform.com/240172813952051

The survey will be open until Monday March 4th at 12pm.

There will also be an “in person” session at the Eltham centre on 05/03/24 to support any families that ay need help in completing the questionnaire. Some SENCOs will also be having sessions in school to do the same. We really want to hear from you to inform our future plans.

SEND Strategy - Consultation with Young People

We had in total 428 individual responses from children and young people for the SEND strategy survey, which reflect the whole range of provision we have here in Greenwich, from mainstream to specialist schools and across the age range including some of our youngest children. We developed questionnaires to suit the children attending the school and their age etc..

The final report can be seen below which we will use to support the development of the SEND strategy, but also many other initiatives as there is such a lot of information included.

 

There are some great quotes from the young people which are so insightful and support the areas we know need to develop. We will create an “easy read” report for the young people who have contributed, so they can also see what others have said, and will put this here when it is completed. Once the strategy is written we will do the same for that so they can see how what they said has shaped the document. Thank you Bannockburn for sending us some pictures of you completing the questionnaire.

SEND Strategy - Consultation with professional staff

We are having workshops with teams within Greenwich across health and the Council to gain staff views and will also be sending out questionnaires to schools and early years settings.

CLOSED: Short Breaks Strategy 2023-2027

The Royal Borough of Greenwich will be commissioning our new short break provision for children aged 0-25 to start from April 1st,2023.

As part of the Short Breaks recommissioning from April 2023, the RBG Short Breaks Strategy has been put together to outline how we intend to develop short break provisions between 2023 – 2027.

We would like to invite feedback and comments on the Greenwich Short Breaks Strategy.

CLOSED: Proposals to change the way Education, Health & Care Plans (EHC Plans) are funded.

Dear Parent/Carer

Royal Borough of Greenwich would like your views on proposals to change the way we currently fund EHC Plans.

A letter with all proposed changes as well as the proposed banding breakdown can be found to the right of the screen as a downloadable document.

We aim to for the new funding arrangements for children with an EHC Plan to be published on the Local Offer Website on 31/06/2020, and will come into effect on 01/09/2020

Once you have read the proposed changes (to the right of the screen), you can let us know your views and comments via the online survey, in writing by post/ email or at one of our engagement events. 

TELL US YOUR VIEWS

  • You can complete the on-line survey by 27/3/2020
  • You can write to the Local Authority by 27/3/2020

Nicole Allwood

Participation and Projects Officer: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

1st Floor

The Woolwich Centre

35 Wellington Street

SE18 6HQ

  • You can email the SEN department via the department in box by 27/3/2020

Special-Needs@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

 

  • You can attend a parent meeting, on any of the days/times below:

 

Date

Time

Venue

 

Monday 27th January 2020

 

 

12:00 - 13:30

 

PDC

1 Waterdale Road

SE2 0XT

 

Wednesday 29th January 2020

 

 

18:00 – 19:30

 

 

The Gallery

The Woolwich Centre

35 Wellington Street

SE18 6HQ

 

 

Monday 3rd February 2020

 

 

18:00 – 19:30

 

 

The Gallery

The Woolwich Centre

35 Wellington Street

SE18 6HQ

 

 

Friday 7th February 2020

 

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

PDC

1 Waterdale Road

SE2 0XT

 

 

Consultation on proposals for Special Educational Needs funding Document avalible to the right of the screen

 

CLOSED: Royal Borough of Greenwich home to school travel

Royal Borough of Greenwich is revising the home to school travel assistance policy. In preparing the revised policy and practice – we have taken note of the DfE statutory Guidance (2014), Local Government Ombudsman’s reports, complaint and appeals, legislation, and the SEND Code of Practice 2015.

There are few changes to the actual policy but we are also clarifying how we make decisions about agreeing to providing assistance and when and how we will provide it.

UPDATE: 

Home to school Travel Assistance Policy consultation March 2019   - response from Royal Greenwich

We have reviewed all comments and concerns about the proposed implementation of the travel assistance policy and recognize it has raised anxiety amongst some parents.

We want to reassure parents that for those whose children or young people we consider to have the most complex needs, there is unlikely to be any change. Changes for others will be brought in gradually – starting with all new applications for travel assistance, and at each stage, parents likely to be affected will be invited to a meeting to discuss what it means for them and to address any concerns.

There is a report attached that sets out what we will do and when. Please see link to the right of the screen.

CLOSED: Early Years SEN Inclusion Funding Consultation

The current early years funding system, which has been in place for some time, is out of date and despite changes in other areas of Early Years SEND funding has not been reviewed.

It is therefore vital that we review this to ensure it is fit for purpose and aligned with changes within both the national and local context and responds to the needs of children and families in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

As part of this consultation we would like your feedback to shape the final plan.