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Employment Works for Autism
It has been identified during the Surrey Autism Consultation that some autistic people struggled to find appropriate help to find work, particularly for those people not eligible for support from adult social care. Thanks to funding from the All-Age Autism Strategy 25 autistic or neurodiverse people across Surrey will be [...]
Home to School Transport: Update Following Survey
We are pleased to be able to share with you the outcome of our survey on Home to School Transport which we ran in October and November 2022. We want to thank all of our members who took the time to fill in the survey and to share their experiences. [...]
Children’s Services Guide
Surrey’s Local Offer team, Family Voice Surrey and Surrey County Council have collaborated on a visual guide to Children’s Services in Surrey. This document has been created to raise awareness and understanding of what support is available from Children’s Services, in a quick and easy to understand way. ‘At Family [...]
**HOME TO SCHOOL TRANSPORT**
You may be aware that we ran a survey in October and November this year on home to school transport. This was in light of the extreme challenges that many families were encountering with the home to school transport service. We are very pleased to announce that the outcome of [...]
Surrey Inclusion and Additional Needs Partnership Cooproduction
The Surrey Inclusion and Additional Needs Partnership is seeking to raise the level and quality of co-production taking place through the creation of a charter that defines what co-production means and how we will co-produce. They want to know: • What does co-production mean to you? • How do you [...]
2021-22 Satisfaction Survey
In 2021 we ran a satisfaction survey to find out what our members and partners thought about what we were doing. We want to thank all those of you who took the time to complete the survey. We have taken a lot of that feedback on board and will be [...]
Response from IPSEA to SEND Green Paper
Response from IPSEA to SEND Green Paper SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER – in addition to response to consultation questions July 2022 (IPSEA) Independent Provider of Special Education Advice IPSEA Supplementary Paper (PDF)
Surrey Short Breaks
What are Short Breaks? Short Breaks offer a range of creative, flexible, fun play and leisure activities in local communities for children and young people who have additional needs and disabilities (AN&D). The purpose of Short Breaks is to: Develop the skills, confidence, independence and readiness for adulthood of children [...]
**Home to School Transport **
We are aware that many families are having severe challenges with transport and many have not got transport in place for the start of term. We have been receiving an unprecedented amount of emails from families in this incredibly stressful situation. As parent carers ourselves we fully appreciate how difficult [...]
FVS Response to the SEND & AP Green Paper (July 2022)
You may be aware of the recent launch of a Green paper on SEND and alternative provision. We really encourage all parents to fill out the consultation, but it's also important that FVS also respond. We have worked with partners in the Surrey SEND partnership to create a partnership response, [...]
Surrey Choices Summer Schemes
Vocational Taster Days For people with Special Educational Needs and disabilities (young people with SEND aged 18 plus), a chance to learn new skills, make friends and have fun this summer! Whether you love the idea of being outside in the countryside or producing content for their podcast radio station, [...]
EBSNA Survey Results
We have been working with Surrey Youth Focus who have been absolutely incredible at analysing the data from the survey we ran earlier this year. We are delighted to now be able to share these findings with you. We would like to thank each and everyone of you who took [...]