Children and young people in Warwickshire’s SEND programme

Parents and carers have been regularly working with local Education, Health and Social Care professionals at the highest levels of Warwickshire’s SEND Programme for over a year. Having a regular working relationship in the workstreams (working groups) means that those who use SEND services have a say in how those services are designed and commissioned.

The next step this year has been to make sure that children and young people with SEND will have the same opportunity to do this and to make their voices heard at this level.

Since April, we have been working with young people to:

• Look at ways to regularly work with young people – exploring options such as face to face meetings, social media and working with local service providers who already work with young people.
• Co-design new Twitter and Facebook pages to help support this work, and share information for young people, parents/carers and professionals:
  www.twitter.com/WarksCoPro
  www.facebook.com/WarksCoPro
• Review the SEND Voice newsletter from young people's perspectives and working together on ideas to make it more appealing and accessible for young people.
• Test and review the Local Offer website, which provides information on SEND services for people aged 0 – 25, and working together on ideas to make it more accessible - www.warwickshire.gov.uk/send 

For more information on how children and young people with SEND can take part, please contact:
Laura Musgrave  
Co-production Officer
Warwickshire County Council
01926 742906 
lauramusgrave@warwickshire.gov.uk