SEND IASS

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The SEND Information and Advice Service provided by The Rose Road Association aims to empower children and young people with special educational needs/disabilities and their parents/carers to make informed decisions about education, health and social care.

We provide a broad range of factual and impartial information about SEN and disability including:

    • Local policy and practice.
    • The Local Offer.
    • Personalisation and Personal Budgets.
    • Law on SEN and disability, health and social care, through suitably independently trained staff.
    • Advice for children, young people and parents on gathering, understanding and interpreting information and applying it to their own situation.
    • Information on the local authority’s processes for resolving disagreements, its complaints procedures and means of redress.
    • Individual casework, representation and support in preparing for and attending meetings.
    • Help in filling in forms and writing letters/reports.
    • Support on exclusions.
    • Support in resolving disagreements, including mediation and tribunals.
    • Signposting to local or national sources of advice, information and support.
    • Links to local parent support groups and forums.