SEND Annual Parent/Carer Survey 2024

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This survey is for parents and carers of children or young people between 0 to 25 years old with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (SEND), being educated or receiving support or services in Gloucestershire.

If you have more than one child with SEND you can use the same link to complete a separate survey for each child.


Welcome 

From Kirsten Harrison, Director of Education at Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) and Helen Ford, Deputy Director of Integrated Commissioning, NHS Gloucestershire (ICB).

We co-chair the Local Area SEND and Inclusion Partnership Board (SILAP) and are pleased to share our 2024 survey with parent carers. We want all children and young people in Gloucestershire to have the right support at the right time to ensure all children and young people in our county can thrive and live lives of choice and opportunity, progressing successfully into adulthood irrespective of their learning needs or abilities.

The Partnership is working hard on our areas for development, looking to make services and the offer even better for families. Working together as a Partnership, we are listening and learning from your feedback and experiences. We have developed our local area improvement plan from your feedback and the SEND Inspection. We have included a link to the improvement plan so you see the current priorities and progress.

Your valuable insights and feedback are helping us to understand what and how we can do better. Your views also help the Partnership to measure how our improvement work is making a difference. Working collaboratively and co-productively with parent carers, children and young people on these developments is a key priority, and we want to thank you for helping and working with us.

We value the time your are giving to complete this survey which we will use to help monitor our progress as a Partnership year on year.


A message from Gloucestershire’s system

Leaders for children and families

Ann James, Director of Children’s Services, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire County Council and Mary Hutton, Chief Executive Officer, NHS Gloucestershire.

Paul Shallcross, Director of Childrens Safeguarding and Care, Gloucestershire County Council and Benedict Leigh, Director of Integrated Commissioning, GCC & NHS.

As system leaders, holding the statutory responsibility for children, our commitment and responsibilities must match those of parent carers.

We know that co-production can be demanding of people’s time, energy and commitment, but the potential rewards are great. We know we are better together and more able together to create a system that will help all our children and young people.


Further information about this survey 

Throughout this survey you will find terms such as special educational needs and disabilities or SEND. The following explanations are included to clarify what is meant by SEND and Inclusion for our children and young people.

What is meant by Special Educational Needs (SEN) 

A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:

  • has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
  • has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions.

SEN is a legal term derived from s.20 of the Children and Families Act 2014. A detailed description can be found in the SEND Code of Practice: 0 – 25 years. SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we mean by Inclusion is education that includes everyone, with non-disabled and disabled children and young people (including those with “special educational needs”) learning together in mainstream schools, colleges and universities. Towards this we all need to:

  • Be aspirational for all children, enabling them to access high quality education and learning opportunites suitable for their needs and phase of development.
  • Support and work in partnership with schools and other settings to develop a highly skilled workforce that keeps children and young people safe and enables them to reach their potential.
  • Work in partnership with schools, other settings and partner agencies to identify the inclusion needs and priorities year on year.


How to respond 


Take Survey


The survey will remain open until Sunday 8th December 2024, at 5pm.

The survey can also be made available as a hard copy. To request a Word version of the survey please contact localoffer@gloucestershire.gov.uk

If you need additional support in completing this survey, you can contact Gloucestershire Parent Carer Forum at info@glosparentcarerforum.org.uk or by messaging their Facebook page.


Privacy Notice

Gloucestershire County Council provides the below services through its Children's Directorate and in partnership with several organisations. We need to collect information about you in order to provide these services. Depending on the service we may collect information about your family and other people associated with your case. We will retain your personal information in line with our Records Retention and Disposal Schedule, or as long as we are legally required to.

There may be reasons for us to keep your information for longer than is stated, such as if you have an open complaint about the services received, for evidence to defend a legal claim or if we are required to by law. We will keep anonymised data about you indefinitely for data analytical purposes to ensure that we can assess, evaluate and plan our services for the future.

Children's Services often works with external services and partners to deliver our services. Sometimes some of the information held by social care staff will need to be shared with external partners as well as staff working in other Council departments, this is to ensure you receive proper care, support and treatment. Sharing this information also helps avoid you being asked for the same information more than once.

For further information, please visit our Children's Services Privacy Notice.


This survey is for parents and carers of children or young people between 0 to 25 years old with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (SEND), being educated or receiving support or services in Gloucestershire.

If you have more than one child with SEND you can use the same link to complete a separate survey for each child.


Welcome 

From Kirsten Harrison, Director of Education at Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) and Helen Ford, Deputy Director of Integrated Commissioning, NHS Gloucestershire (ICB).

We co-chair the Local Area SEND and Inclusion Partnership Board (SILAP) and are pleased to share our 2024 survey with parent carers. We want all children and young people in Gloucestershire to have the right support at the right time to ensure all children and young people in our county can thrive and live lives of choice and opportunity, progressing successfully into adulthood irrespective of their learning needs or abilities.

The Partnership is working hard on our areas for development, looking to make services and the offer even better for families. Working together as a Partnership, we are listening and learning from your feedback and experiences. We have developed our local area improvement plan from your feedback and the SEND Inspection. We have included a link to the improvement plan so you see the current priorities and progress.

Your valuable insights and feedback are helping us to understand what and how we can do better. Your views also help the Partnership to measure how our improvement work is making a difference. Working collaboratively and co-productively with parent carers, children and young people on these developments is a key priority, and we want to thank you for helping and working with us.

We value the time your are giving to complete this survey which we will use to help monitor our progress as a Partnership year on year.


A message from Gloucestershire’s system

Leaders for children and families

Ann James, Director of Children’s Services, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire County Council and Mary Hutton, Chief Executive Officer, NHS Gloucestershire.

Paul Shallcross, Director of Childrens Safeguarding and Care, Gloucestershire County Council and Benedict Leigh, Director of Integrated Commissioning, GCC & NHS.

As system leaders, holding the statutory responsibility for children, our commitment and responsibilities must match those of parent carers.

We know that co-production can be demanding of people’s time, energy and commitment, but the potential rewards are great. We know we are better together and more able together to create a system that will help all our children and young people.


Further information about this survey 

Throughout this survey you will find terms such as special educational needs and disabilities or SEND. The following explanations are included to clarify what is meant by SEND and Inclusion for our children and young people.

What is meant by Special Educational Needs (SEN) 

A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:

  • has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
  • has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions.

SEN is a legal term derived from s.20 of the Children and Families Act 2014. A detailed description can be found in the SEND Code of Practice: 0 – 25 years. SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we mean by Inclusion is education that includes everyone, with non-disabled and disabled children and young people (including those with “special educational needs”) learning together in mainstream schools, colleges and universities. Towards this we all need to:

  • Be aspirational for all children, enabling them to access high quality education and learning opportunites suitable for their needs and phase of development.
  • Support and work in partnership with schools and other settings to develop a highly skilled workforce that keeps children and young people safe and enables them to reach their potential.
  • Work in partnership with schools, other settings and partner agencies to identify the inclusion needs and priorities year on year.


How to respond 


Take Survey


The survey will remain open until Sunday 8th December 2024, at 5pm.

The survey can also be made available as a hard copy. To request a Word version of the survey please contact localoffer@gloucestershire.gov.uk

If you need additional support in completing this survey, you can contact Gloucestershire Parent Carer Forum at info@glosparentcarerforum.org.uk or by messaging their Facebook page.


Privacy Notice

Gloucestershire County Council provides the below services through its Children's Directorate and in partnership with several organisations. We need to collect information about you in order to provide these services. Depending on the service we may collect information about your family and other people associated with your case. We will retain your personal information in line with our Records Retention and Disposal Schedule, or as long as we are legally required to.

There may be reasons for us to keep your information for longer than is stated, such as if you have an open complaint about the services received, for evidence to defend a legal claim or if we are required to by law. We will keep anonymised data about you indefinitely for data analytical purposes to ensure that we can assess, evaluate and plan our services for the future.

Children's Services often works with external services and partners to deliver our services. Sometimes some of the information held by social care staff will need to be shared with external partners as well as staff working in other Council departments, this is to ensure you receive proper care, support and treatment. Sharing this information also helps avoid you being asked for the same information more than once.

For further information, please visit our Children's Services Privacy Notice.

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    Survey: SEND Parent/Carer

    Throughout this survey, we are asking a range of questions to understand you and your child’s experiences over the last 12 months. This timescale is important so we can measure progress when we run the same survey next year. 

    Where invited to consider ‘Would be better if..’ we are keen for you to share your ideas and thoughts about what we could do better. This might include where you feel there needs to be more, less or different services.

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