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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. [...]
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 [...]