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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:
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The purpose of the local offer is to enable parents and young people to see more clearly what services are available in their area and how to access them.
The offer will include provision from birth to 25, across education, health and social care and should be developed in conjunction with children and young people, parents and carers, and local services, including schools, colleges, health and social care agencies.
The offer will include provision from birth to 25, across education, health and social care and should be developed in conjunction with children and young people, parents and carers, and local services, including schools, colleges, health and social care agencies.
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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.