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Your views, our future

As Surrey enters a period of significant change, your voice as a parent carer is more important than ever.   📍 What’s happening? Surrey is going through some changes in how local services are organised, which might lead to new Unitary Councils. While it's still early days, Family Voice Surrey has [...]

Important update about Family Voice Surrey and forthcoming changes

📣  We Want to Hear From You! We're responding to funding pressures and changes in local services by reviewing how Family Voice Surrey, your Parent Carer Forum works. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be speaking with staff and parent carers to understand what really matters to you. Please feel free to [...]

Share your feedback on Surrey County Council’s (SCC) proposed improvements to the Personal Budgets guidance and training program.

Personal Budgets Share your feedback on Surrey County Council’s (SCC) proposed improvements to the Personal Budgets guidance and training program. Thank you to everyone that has taken part in the personal budget sessions over the last year that were run by Jo McSherrie, Service Manager for Policy and System Development [...]

Share your feedback on Surrey County Council’s (SCC) proposed improvements to the Education, Health and Care needs assessment (EHCNA) process.

Share your feedback on Surrey County Council’s (SCC) proposed improvements to the Education, Health and Care needs assessment (EHCNA) process. Over the last few months, we have been working in collaboration with the SCC Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) team and parent carers to understand how the EHCNA process [...]

Do you know of any professionals in Surrey who would be interested in and benefit from some training on Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)?

Do you know of any professionals in Surrey who would be interested in and benefit from some training on Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)? If so please share the below with them: Two in-person training events targeting ALL professionals working directly with and supporting children and young people and their families are [...]

FVS response to the SEND Inquiry Call for Evidence

As you may be aware in December 2024 a major new enquiry focused on finding solutions to the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision was launched. The below link provides some more information about new enquiry- Solving the SEND crisis – Education Committee launches major inquiry - [...]

Invitation to Participate in the SEND Improvement Review

Invitation to Participate in the SEND Improvement Review   Following the Area SEND inspection of Surrey’s Local Area Partnership in 2023, the Additional Needs & Disability (AND) Partnership published an updated strategy and improvement plan. An independent SEND advisor from the DfE is carrying out a review of our improvement [...]

The parliamentary inquiry “Solving the SEND Crisis”

The parliamentary inquiry "Solving the SEND Crisis"   As you may be aware the Education Committee has launched a major new inquiry focused on finding solutions to the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision.  The Committee would like to hear from parents and carers, early years settings, schools, local [...]

Action Card Update

Tribunals Action Card 008 (including the formal response) FVS Action Card 008 Tribunals   ND Action Card 009 FVS ND Action Card   Separate formal ND Action Card response   FV ND Action Card Response Final Response.

Work opportunity for young people with lived experience

The All-Age Autism Strategy has been working on relaunching the School Autism Friendly Review in 2025 following the project's success over the last year. The team are looking for young people to support the project by carrying out school reviews and contributing to data analysis and report writing. The aim [...]