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Open letter from Liz Mills – Education and Health Care Plans (EHCP) – Additional Needs and Disabilities Strategy

Education and Health Care Plans (EHCP) - Additional Needs and Disabilities Strategy Following my previous update in September 2023 - Open letter from Liz Mills: Additional Needs and Disabilities (AND) Strategy update- September 2023 | Surrey Local Offer - and in line with my commitment to provide regular updates, I [...]

Time for our Family Voice Autumn Surrey Survey on Home to School Transport!

Time for our Family Voice Autumn Survey on Home to School Transport! Last year all of our Home to School Transport Survey recommendations were endorsed by the Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture Select Committee. The committee enthusiastically welcomed our report and one of their recommendations was that this survey [...]

SEND Local Area Inspection Update & Presentation for Ofsted Inspection

Update 13th October 2023 We understand that the comms regarding the parent carer meeting video might not have been clear enough, causing some concerns. To clarify, what we meant by 'Unfortunately, we did not receive consent from all participants and therefore we were unable to share the recording' is that [...]

FVS & PC open forum online tomorrow 26th September at 12pm

Family Voice Surrey will be holding an open forum online tomorrow 26th September at 12pm for any Parent Carers that would like to attend. During this update our CEO, Claire Poole, will focus on the current SEND Inspection and the process to date. We will also be answering any questions [...]

Local Area SEND Inspection update 21st September

We promised to keep you all up to date regarding the PCF inspection meeting this morning. Please find below todays update. FVS began with a 15 minute presentation and this was followed by questions directed to FVS by the Inspectors. The inspectors are happy for us to share the slides [...]

Surrey’s Local Area SEND Inspection Update

Surrey's Local Area SEND Inspection Update If you haven’t already done so, please complete the parent carer survey to help the inspectors understand more about the help and support that children and young people with SEND in Surrey receive. Inspection Survey link We have been receiving emails and comments on [...]

Family Voice Surrey Short Breaks Survey Results

Our FVS summer quarterly quantitative data survey was based on the Short Breaks Offer in Surrey. Our aim was to highlight the importance of the Short Breaks Play and Leisure Schemes for children and young people (CYP) and their families, and identify the challenges they have been facing since April [...]

Announcement on the Local Area SEND Inspection

This morning Ofsted and Care Quality Commission notified Surrey County Council of the start of Surrey's Local Area SEND Inspection. The inspection will look at education, health and care services for children with additional needs and disabilities (otherwise known as SEND) in Surrey, to assess their experiences and outcomes. You can find [...]

Update on Surrey County Council Local Area SEND Inspection

Please see below the communication from SCC on the Local Area SEND Inspection... Surrey County Council is expecting its Local Area SEND Inspection that will be carried out by OFSTED and CQC.    The inspection will take place over a three week period and during that time you will have the [...]

Home to School Transport update 25th Aug 2023

Home to School Transport update, 25/08/2023 FVS have been hearing from many families who still haven’t heard about their child or young person’s travel arrangements for the new academic year. Earlier this week we ran a poll on Facebook to gather more information. We met with the transport team yesterday [...]

FVS Summer Survey on Attendance, Alternative Provision and Education Other Than At School

At Family Voice we hear a great deal about barriers and challenges to school/college attendance faced by children/young people with additional needs. This survey is for any child young/person with any level of attendance issues, including those getting in but struggling with difficulties unseen/unacknowledged by their school/college. We need to [...]