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BEXLEY's LOCAL OFFER
www.bexleylocaloffer.uk Phone: 0203 045 5677 Bexley's 'One Stop Shop' for all your SEND age 0-25 needs. The local offer provides information for children and young people with special educational needs (SEND) and their parents or carers in a single place including:
Please see below for your chance to give feedback to Bexley about the Local Offer website design and content. |
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Would you like to know more about Bexley's Local Offer? Are you having trouble finding the information you need? Can you help us to provide feedback to Bexley Council? If you would like to know more, please email Rachel Medhurst at rachel.bexleyvoice@hotmail.co.uk and be part of the team helping improve Bexley's 'one stop shop' for everything you need to know about SEND services and providers in Bexley. |
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BEXLEY LOCAL OFFER 'MY GUIDES' Bexley Voice are co-producing with Bexley LA a series of guides for parents and carers on various subjects, taken from the most common questions searched for on the Bexley Local Offer. Including:
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What is the local offer?
There are significant potential benefits from a well-articulated, accessible, available, up-to-date and well publicised local offer. The local offer has the potential to:
• provide clarity and confidence for parents;
• support earlier intervention;
• reduce the need for assessment: a number of local authorities will make a minimum level of short breaks provision readily available and without costly assessment processes. This meets the needs of many families;
• identify need and gaps in provision;
• provide an evidence base for improving progress and securing better outcomes, at school and local level.
The local offer provides information on a number of things, including:
· special educational provision (every school must provide 'SEND PROVISION' information to the local offer);
· health provision;
· social care provision;
· other educational provision;
· training provision;
· travel arrangements for children and young people to schools, colleges and early years education; and
· preparing for adulthood, including housing, employment and leisure opportunities.
The vision for the local offer:
• It envisages a multi-agency approach with joint commissioning to meet the needs of children through the local offer, and through individual Education, Health and Care Plans where necessary;
• It holds the potential for other services to enhance the local offer, for example leisure and housing;
• Keeping the local offer under review will be important to its development, improvement and the engagement of all parties.
Please watch the video below by young people explaining what the Local Offer is all about.
There are significant potential benefits from a well-articulated, accessible, available, up-to-date and well publicised local offer. The local offer has the potential to:
• provide clarity and confidence for parents;
• support earlier intervention;
• reduce the need for assessment: a number of local authorities will make a minimum level of short breaks provision readily available and without costly assessment processes. This meets the needs of many families;
• identify need and gaps in provision;
• provide an evidence base for improving progress and securing better outcomes, at school and local level.
The local offer provides information on a number of things, including:
· special educational provision (every school must provide 'SEND PROVISION' information to the local offer);
· health provision;
· social care provision;
· other educational provision;
· training provision;
· travel arrangements for children and young people to schools, colleges and early years education; and
· preparing for adulthood, including housing, employment and leisure opportunities.
The vision for the local offer:
• It envisages a multi-agency approach with joint commissioning to meet the needs of children through the local offer, and through individual Education, Health and Care Plans where necessary;
• It holds the potential for other services to enhance the local offer, for example leisure and housing;
• Keeping the local offer under review will be important to its development, improvement and the engagement of all parties.
Please watch the video below by young people explaining what the Local Offer is all about.
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Our thanks go to over 50 parents, carers, children and young people that came to our 'Bexley's Local Offer' Event in September.
Everyone was busy using the Local Offer website, searching for information and completing feedback forms. The event was also attended by over 20 local service providers, giving parents an informal opportunity to gain information. If you would like to give your feedback on the LO website, please see below. |
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BEXLEY'S LOCAL OFFER - YOUR FEEDBACK REQUIRED!
Dear Bexley Voice member,
Bexley Voice met with the Local Authority this week to review how the development of Bexley’s Local Offer was going. The Local Offer should provide a 'one stop shop' for information and services that support children and young people with special educational needs and disability aged 0-25 years old.
What will the Local Offer do for me?
· Give you information about Education, Health and Care services
· Give you information about leisure activities and support groups
· Hold all the information in one place
· Be clear, comprehensive, accurate and accessible
· Make it easier to find out what you need to know
· Help you to find the nearest and most suitable services
· Make service provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations
This is where we come in – it would be great if each parent could think of at least one question that you need the answer for, or may already know, and go into the Local Offer site and see
a. If you can find an answer
b. If it is a useful answer!
c. How easy it was to find
Whatever the outcome – if you could then use the feedback email to let the developers know what you think:
· Of the information you found
· What you could not find
· How easy you found it to navigate the site
The site is very much a work in progress and changes can and will be made in response to our input – I am sure they will welcome good feedback as much as constructive criticism.
This is potentially an incredibly powerful tool for parents, professionals and the Local Authority as it enables up to date information to be available to everyone and feedback to shape future commissioning – we urge you to get involved, have a look, search for some information (or several pieces of information) and feedback to the developers – there is an email to use.
If you would rather let us know what you think – that is fine, we will forward it on – but the quickest way is to use the direct email address on the website.
This is a great opportunity to help shape a major service for the future so please do have a play and feedback.
Best regards, the BV Team
Dear Bexley Voice member,
Bexley Voice met with the Local Authority this week to review how the development of Bexley’s Local Offer was going. The Local Offer should provide a 'one stop shop' for information and services that support children and young people with special educational needs and disability aged 0-25 years old.
What will the Local Offer do for me?
· Give you information about Education, Health and Care services
· Give you information about leisure activities and support groups
· Hold all the information in one place
· Be clear, comprehensive, accurate and accessible
· Make it easier to find out what you need to know
· Help you to find the nearest and most suitable services
· Make service provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations
This is where we come in – it would be great if each parent could think of at least one question that you need the answer for, or may already know, and go into the Local Offer site and see
a. If you can find an answer
b. If it is a useful answer!
c. How easy it was to find
Whatever the outcome – if you could then use the feedback email to let the developers know what you think:
· Of the information you found
· What you could not find
· How easy you found it to navigate the site
The site is very much a work in progress and changes can and will be made in response to our input – I am sure they will welcome good feedback as much as constructive criticism.
This is potentially an incredibly powerful tool for parents, professionals and the Local Authority as it enables up to date information to be available to everyone and feedback to shape future commissioning – we urge you to get involved, have a look, search for some information (or several pieces of information) and feedback to the developers – there is an email to use.
If you would rather let us know what you think – that is fine, we will forward it on – but the quickest way is to use the direct email address on the website.
This is a great opportunity to help shape a major service for the future so please do have a play and feedback.
Best regards, the BV Team