The Birmingham Local Offer website is now launched.  It includes information about the wide range of services that are available to support all areas of a child’s life (0-25 years) especially those with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND).  This includes support with education, physical and mental health, social care, leisure activities and moving towards independence and adulthood. 
 

Every local authority in England has a duty to provide children and young people, (0-25 years) with support if they have Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities - this is known as the Local Offer.  Every local authority has to publish what support is available on a website: this is called the Local Offer Website. 

 

This Local Offer website gives information about the support that the local authority expects to be available across education, health and social care. The information on the website is clear and easy to find. It says who a particular service is for, how to apply, and how decisions are made about who gets that service.

 

The information you should be able to find on a Local Offer Website includes:

• Sources of support, advice and information for children, young people and families including support groups and forums.
• Special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities
• Arrangements to identify and assess children and young people with SEN, including how an assessment can be requested.
• Other educational provision, for example leisure activities, sports or arts provision,
• Information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood including post-16 education and training provision
• Arrangements for travel to and from schools, post-16 institutions and early years providers
• Childcare, including suitable provision for disabled children and those with SEND
• Support available to young people in higher education, particularly the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) and the process and timescales for making an application for DSA
• Arrangements for resolving disagreements and for mediation, and details about making complaints

In Birmingham, we have been updating our Local Offer website to make the information in it clearer and easier to find.

 

Click on this link to go to the Birmingham local offer website. www.localofferbirmingham.co.uk.  

At Water Mill we also have a local offer for all of our SEND pupils. Click on the link below to find out more.

Click on the link below to see how much money we allocate to support our SEND pupils and how it is spent:

We think very carefully about how we can support all children in our school and individual support and challenge is built into all of our curriculum plans. The link below to our SEND Policy statement tells you all about the support we offer to this group of pupils.

Mrs Hoye, our Assistant Headteacher is our SENCO.

 

If you would like to speak to her about the support that we can offer, you can either give her a bell, or she is in the playground most mornings and afternoons and is always happy to chat.