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Family Voice Summer Survey focusing on the Short Breaks Service
Our Family Voice Summer Survey focuses on the Short Breaks Service. This will quantify how critical Short Breaks are to children/young people and their families and shine a light on why it is essential to get the right services in place, in the right places, at the right times. It [...]
The Role Of The Case Officer – Survey Results And Next Steps
The Role of The Case Officer FVS survey results, Surrey County Council response, and next steps... FVS survey, report and recommendations In March 2023, Family Voice Surrey's quarterly quantitative data survey was based on the role of the Case Officer. This was following concerns raised with us by families [...]
Home to School Transport Parent Guide
Family Voice Surrey have been working with the home to school transport team at Surrey County Council to develop a parent guide which details the process for accessing travel assistance for your child or young person from eligibility right through to delivery. We hope that it will be useful for [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week 15th – 21st May 2023
Anxiety is something we can all experience from time-to time. There are lots of reasons why we get this feeling. It can be connected to a job, school, a relationship, social situations, how we feel about ourselves, or a change in our life. If we don’t know how to cope [...]
Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI)
On Monday 20 February, Ofsted notified Rachael Wardell, Executive Director of Children, Families and Lifelong Learning at Surrey County Council, of the start of a multi-agency Joint Targeted Area Inspection into Surrey’s Early Help arrangements. The Early Help JTAI as it is known, is a multi-agency, multi-inspectorate inspection which entails [...]
Your voice matters!
With our Winter Survey now closed and the data being analysed it’s time to build our Spring Survey. These surveys really do have an impact and your input is vital at every stage. Our Autumn Survey influenced transport policy improvements, including the move for parents to be reimbursed for all [...]
Butterflies of Hope Project
A Catalyst for hope Local Surrey mental health and wellbeing charity, Catalyst have teamed up with Surrey County Council to help spread hope and awareness across the county. Hope can mean something different for everyone, whether it be going for walks, shopping trips, or crocheting - these are all activities [...]
Free training and advice for Surrey’s unpaid carers on looking after their backs.
Action for Carers Surrey have a unique service, their ‘Moving and Handling’ team. Their role is to help Surrey’s unpaid family and friend carers look after their backs – ensuring that if they have to help their loved one move (eg into the car, or up from bed) they can [...]
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
What are developmental disabilities? Developmental disabilities refer to a group of conditions. These are due to an impairment in one of four areas: physical, learning, language or behaviour. These conditions begin during a child’s developmental period, and typically before a person is 22 years old. They usually last throughout a [...]
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. [...]