Hull SEND Information, Advice & Support Service

We are still open!

It may be the summer holidays but Hull SENDIASS is still open to provide information, advice and support around SEND around your rights, SEND Law and local policy.

You can contact us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Hull SENDIASS Telephone Advice Line

Our information & advice line provides an opportunity to seek information and advice, ask questions and check information with an independently-trained, impartial practitioner.

For more information on about our Advice Line - check out the leaflet below.

You can get in touch with us via:

Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

This morning we attended Biggin Hill's SEND Coffee Morning.

We had a great time chatting to the parents and the other services that were there.

Hull SENDIASS is available to attend SEND coffee mornings so please do get in contact with us if you would like us there.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Check out the Kids SENDIASS Webinar for key information about SEN Support at School.

Kids SENDIASS Information Webinar - SEN Support in School A training webinar explaining SEN Support in Schools with an emphasis on law and legislation.Written and presented by Olivia Mohr-Barker, Hull SENDIASS Pract...

Its International Disability Awareness Day!

International Disability Awareness Day takes place on the 14th of July.

"Disability Awareness Day is a pan disability event which promotes a can do culture focusing on what disabled people can do throughout life and work". See more here:

For more information, please see the below links:
• https://www.disabilityawarenessday.org.uk

One of the features of Hull SENDIASS is that we are impartial; this is set out in the SENDIASS Minimum Standards.

For more information on how Hull SENDIASS remains impartial - check out the leaflet below.

Here's the link for the Kids SENDIASS policies as well should you want more information - https://www.kids.org.uk/sendiass-policies/

Kids SENDIASS Webinar on the EHCP Annual Review Process.

For those of you who missed out on our Annual Review training over the last year - fear not, our webinar has been released on YouTube.

This webinar will walk you through the statutory elements of the annual review process.

Check out the video below!

Kids SENDIASS Webinar - EHCP Annual Review Process Kids SENDIASS Webinar on the statutory EHCP Annual Review process. Links to Kids SENDIASS resources relating to the EHCP Annual Review:• https://www.kids.org...

Hull SENDIASS is the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Information, Advice and Support (IAS) Service for Hull.

We are statutory service that provides free, confidential and impartial information, advice and support on SEND law, local policy and processes across Education, Health and Social Care and on the rights of families of children and young people with SEND.

There are two video's linked below which give you more information about SENDIASS services in general and specifically the Hull SENDIASS -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjdkWyXo2c&list=PLH9gGlqF_yZSWH3bTkijSlIwYrhJCWjur&index=2 - What is an Information, Advice and Support Service?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQDv4UMH8o - Introduction to Hull SENDIASS

What is an Information, Advice and Support (IAS) service? IAS services provide information, advice and support to children and young people with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (also known as SEND) an...

It's Disability Pride Month!

Disability Pride Month is celebrated during July every year and promotes people in the disabled community being proud and unapologetically themselves.

Disability Pride Month stands to recognise the obstacles that individuals with disabilities overcome. You can find out more below:

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/66256333
• https://livingmadeeasy.org.uk/about-us/news-and-events/disability-pride-month

We receive lots of enquiries about supporting at meetings. Please see below for more information about our attendance at these meetings.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Deafblindness is having both sight and hearing loss that affect your everyday life.

Some people are born deafblind. This is called congenital deafblindness. Others become deafblind later in life. This is known as acquired deafblindness.

▪️ https://www.sense.org.uk/deafblind-awareness-week/

Autistic Pride Day is celebrated on June 18 of every year and is a day dedicated to individuals with ASD for them to be autistic and proud and celebrate who they are.

▪️ https://www.myautism.org/news-features/autistic-pride-day

What is Hull SENDIASS' Focused Support?

Focused support is where you are supported by an allocated practitioner around a specific SEND issue relating to education, health and/or social care. Focused Support usually involves supporting you to understand and exercise your rights around a particular issue; and/or express your views and take part in discussion.

For more information on Focused Support, please check out the leaflet below.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things throughout their life. A learning disability is different for everyone. No two people are the same. A person with a learning disability might have some difficulty:

▪️ understanding complicated information
▪️ learning some skills
▪️ looking after themselves or living alone

https://www.mencap.org.uk/learningdisabilityweek

Face to Face Consultations

Our face-to-face consultations are an opportunity for you to have a one-hour face-to-face meeting with a SENDIASS practitioner. These session focus on supporting you to understand, interpret and/or complete relevant SEND paperwork (excluding DLA forms).

For more information on our Face to Face Consultations check out the leaflet below.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Tourette's Syndrome is an inherited neurological condition, affecting 1/100 children in the UK. Find out more below:

▪ https://www.tourettes-action.org.uk/7-about-ts.html
▪️ https://tic-yorkshire.co.uk/

We have had a few questions over the past number of weeks about our role in meetings. The SEND Information Advice and Support Service (IASS) minimum standards states

'The IASS provides advocacy support for individual children, young people, and parents that empowers them to express their views and wishes and helps them to understand and exercise their rights in matters including exclusion, complaints, SEND processes, and SEND appeals.'

The word advocacy used here is not used in the traditional or statutory sense. The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) uses the Mind definition of advocacy which states

'Advocacy means getting support from another person to help you express your views and wishes and help you understand and exercise your rights.'

For more information on SENDIASS minimum standards and the relating definition of advocacy, please follow the link below

https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/resources/all-resources/filter/inclusion-send/minimum-standards-sendias-services

It may be half term, but Hull SENDIASS are still here to give you independent, impartial information, advice and support relating to Education, Health and Social Care for families of children and young people with SEND aged 0-25 who live in Hull.

Contact us on:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO COMPLETE OUR SURVEY

SENDIASS would like to hear your views about your experiences of their care and support services.

Here is the link to an anonymous online survey. It should take you just a few minutes to complete:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/sendiass2

The survey is open from 22 April to 10 May 2024.

If you have any questions about the survey or would like help completing it, you can contact us via:
Email - [email protected]
Telephone - 01482 467541

Thank you from Hull SENDIASS

Hello.

There is only 2 more days to have your say in our survey.

SENDIASS would like to hear your views about your experiences of their care and support services.

Here is the link to an anonymous online survey. It should take you just a few minutes to complete:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/sendiass2

The survey is open from 22 April to 10 May 2024.

If you have any questions about the survey or would like help completing it, you can contact us via:
Email - [email protected]
Telephone - 01482 467541

Thank you from Hull SENDIASS

Hello.

SENDIASS would like to hear your views about your experiences of their care and support services.

Here is the link to an anonymous online survey. It should take you just a few minutes to complete:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/sendiass2

The survey is open from 22 April to 10 May 2024.

If you have any questions about the survey or would like help completing it, you can contact us via:

Email - [email protected]
Telephone - 01482 467541

Thank you from Hull SENDIASS

Hello.

SENDIASS would like to hear your views about your experiences of their care and support services.

Here is the link to an anonymous online survey. It should take you just a few minutes to complete:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/sendiass2

The survey is open from 22 April to 10 May 2024.

If you have any questions about the survey or would like help completing it, you can contact us via:
Email - [email protected]
Telephone - 01482 467541

Thank you from Hull SENDIASS

Hull SENDIASS offers of Focused Support to parents/carers and young people where they are experiencing a specific SEND issue relating to education, health and/or social care.

Focused Support usually involves supporting you to understand and exercise your rights around a particular issue; and/or express your views and take part in discussion.

Check out the leaflet below for more information on our Focused Support offer.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Our face-to-face consultations are an opportunity for you to have a one-hour face-to-face meeting with a SENDIASS practitioner. These session focus on support you to understand, interpret and/or complete relevant SEND paperwork (excluding DLA forms).

Check out the leaflet below for more information on our consultation.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Hull SENDIASS operates an Information and Advice Line. Check out the leaflet below for more information.

You can get in touch with us via:
Telephone - (01482) 467541
Email - [email protected]
Online - https://bit.ly/HullSENDIASScontactform

Update on our summer term information sessions

All sessions are now FULLY BOOKED!

For the summer term we have
• Added a new session - Draft to Final EHCP
• Increased capacity of our online sessions

We understand these sessions are in high demand.

We are restricted in the number of sessions we are able to deliver each term due to capacity within the team as our training offer (which includes our information sessions) is only a small part of our total offer.

We have to limit the number of places available each session due to due to room capacity within our offices and to ensure as parents and carers you receive the best quality of information and advice to your situation within these sessions.

At current these session on average have a below 50% attendance rate. We politely ask if you are unable to attend or wish to cancel your place, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or 01482 647541 or cancel through Eventbrite as soon as you can. This way we are then able to start operating a waiting list, whereby these spaces can be offered out to other parents.

Thank you from the whole Hull SENDIASS Team.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support (SENDIAS) services provide free, impartial advice on matters relating to SEND.

SENDIAS services can support children, young people and their families on a range of issues including:

- School exclusions
- EHC Needs Assessments
- Representation at SEND tribunals
- Supporting conversations with a school or local authority.

To find out about how your local SENDIAS service can help you, watch the animation here: https://buff.ly/3MN8yqD

You can find your local SENDIAS service here: https://buff.ly/3tQyha8