The SEND Local Offer
About the Graduated Approach in Liverpool
Support for parents
Granby and Dingle Children’s Centre
The centre’s aim is to bring together a wide range of services for children from birth to 5 years of age and their families, and pregnant women and their partners. The Centre is a one-stop shop within the community for parents, providing childcare, education, health and family support. We also provide advice on employment and training. Join us in Granby for sessions with our SEN worker Aysha
Liverpool and Knowsley SENDIASS
Liverpool Parents and Carers (LivPaC)
LivPaC is a group of parents and caregivers who have children and young people 0-25 yrs with special educational needs and/or disabilities, who come together. Their aim to help and support each other, sharing information and advocating for better services for children/young people and their families. LivPaC works closely with schools, health services, and local authorities to ensure that children and young people with disabilities get the support they need and if not, work with the services to improve what is on offer for families within the local area. LivPaC run coffee mornings and training sessions so that parents can share their experiences, get advice and find resources to help them care for their children and young people. We want to empower parents and carer’s to speak up for their children and young people and navigate the systems involved in getting support. They also signpost accessible services and extracurricular activities.
ADDvanced Solutions
They offer a mix of face-to-face and online groups, workshops and learning programmes for parent/carers to access to better understand and support their child.
Autism Initiatives (OSSME)
OSSME Facebook group posts regularly sharing useful information aimed at supporting parents and teaching professionals
OSSME parents group – originally this group met face to face monthly, but now they get together in a virtual private group setting providing peer to peer support and gaining advice from experts. Contact OSSME via Facebook if you are interested in hearing more about this.
OSSME newsletter – issued quarterly, you can sign up to receive this by contacting OSSME on their Facebook page
Young Person’s Advisory Service (YPAS)
YPAS helps with a wide range of difficulties that children, young people and families experience. These difficulties can often impact how we feel, affecting our everyday mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Our therapy service provides a wide range of counselling and psychotherapy interventions designed to help address those issues that impact mental health and emotional wellbeing. Common presenting issues include: anxiety, depression, bullying, self-harm, bereavement, sexual abuse, family-related issues, emotional abuse, neglect, bereavement, grief, loss, domestic violence, hearing voices, etc.
Our wellbeing service provides a wide range of support and low intensity evidence based interventions designed to address the impact of mental health and emotional wellbeing. The service also provides open access groups, drop-in activities and information, advice and guidance. Common presenting issues include: anger, isolation, confidence, self-esteem, family- related issues, education, housing, benefits, etc
Special Education Needs Inclusion Support Service (SENISS)
SENISS are a Local Authority SEND support service. We are a team of specialist advisory teachers who support children and young people with special educational needs. SENISS exists to offer quality support to settings to promote inclusion and enable children and young people to achieve their full potential. SENISS is a setting based service which means that support is accessed through your child’s setting or school and as such all requests/referrals for pupil support must come from the setting. If you think your child needs support from SENISS, you should speak to the school’s SENDCo about this. However, it is important to note that it is the school who make the final decision about which children/young people they refer to SENISS. If school refers your child to SENISS, they must fill in a referral form and ask you as the parent/carer to read and sign it, giving permission for SENISS input. If SENISS work with your child, it may include: observing them in class, working with them one to one, completing standardised assessments, speaking to class teachers who know your child well. Following this, a written record with a summary of involvement and recommendations for the school, will be completed. There may be written updates if the SENISS specialist teacher visits your child again. Schools are responsible for sharing this report and any further information with parent/carers.
https://fisd.liverpool.gov.uk/kb5/liverp ool/fsd/service.page?id=3BH9OC2B4oA
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Free Online Courses
https://liverpool.gov.uk/children-and-families/special-educational-needs-and-disabilities/autistic-spectrum-disorder-training/