1. The 'State of Waltham Forest'

This survey is for parents and carers in Waltham Forest of children and young people aged 0-25 years with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).
 Waltham Forest Parent Forum are gathering evidence from parents which will shape the work we are involved in in the coming year. We would like to know your experiences in a range of areas: how well the LA/Health identify children's special educational needs and/or disabilities, how well they meet those needs and how effectively they improve outcomes for those children and young people.  This survey will help us to reflect the views of a wide group of parents.Please answer the questions about how things are at the moment for your child or young person.
If you have more than one child with SEND (special educational needs and/or disabilities) then please complete a new survey for each child/young person. The survey should take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete and the information you give us is confidential and anonymous. We will not pass names on.
However if you would like to be entered into a prize draw for completing the survey please add your email address at the end of the survey
There will be one prize of a £100 voucher on offer for anyone who wishes to enter the draw. The winner will be chosen at random from those who at their names at the end of the survey after the closing date.
If a question is not relevant to your circumstances, please tick the' Not applicable box'. Please add additional comments as these are as important, if not more so than the individual answers.

Deadline is 5PM on 19th May

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* 1. What age  is your child or young person?

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* 2. What type of education setting does your child/young person go to?

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* 3. What type of needs has your child been assessed as having? Tick as many as apply.

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* 4. Which of the following apply to your child/young person?

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* 5. If you are going through the EHCP process, or have been through it in the last 12 months,what worked well? (please select all that apply)

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* 6. What hasn't worked well through the EHCP process so far? (please select all that apply)

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* 7. If your child has an EHCP, do you think it is a good quality plan- e.g are all your child's needs identified, is it specific, are provisions quantified, does it have reasonable outcomes?

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* 8. Please tell us how well you think your child/young person's needs have been identified by

  very well Quite well Not very well N/A
Education
Health
Social Care

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* 9. Please tell us how well your views were taken into account when your child/young person's needs were identified by

  Very well Quite well Not very well N/A
Education e'g nursery, school, college
Health e.gGP, Hospital specialist,
wheelchair services, SALT, OT, Continence
services, CAMHS
Social Care e.g social worker,g. Early Help, short breaks,
respite services, residential and supported
living

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* 10. How satisfied are you with the ongoing monitoring and assessment of your child/young person's needs by education, health and social care?

  Very Satisfied Fairly Satisfied Not satisfied Not Applicable
Education
Health 
Social Care

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* 11. If your child is on SEN Support (i.e the stage before a child gets an EHCP)does the school review the support plan at least 3 times a year?

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* 12. Have you had an annual review of your child's EHCP that took place within a year of the previous review or within a year of the plan being written?

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* 13. How well do you think your child/young person's needs are met by the
following service areas?

  Very well Quite well Satisfactory Poorly Don't Know
Education
Health
Social Care

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* 14. If your child struggles to attend school,does their school make reasonable adjustments for them to be able to attend school and reach their potential?

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* 15. If your child has an EHCP, do you know who your SEND Officer is?

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* 16. How do you rate communication with the SEND team?

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* 17. How could communication with the SEND team be improved?

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* 18. How do you rate the SEND provision provided locally  by each area?

  Excellent Good Poor Inadequate
Education
Health
Social Care

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* 19. Do you think there are enough leisure activities for children or young people with SEND in Waltham Forest?

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* 20. Does your child access short breaks?

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* 21. If you have accessed short breaks, how could the service be improved?

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* 22. Overall, how well do the services your child/young person uses help them to do the best they can in-

  Very well Quite well Satisfactory Poorly Don't Know
Educational Progress
Taking Part in community activities
Leading a healthy life
Getting ready for adulthood

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* 23. How easy do you find it to get information about services that are available and what they do?

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* 24. Have you heard of the 0-25 SEND Local Offer?

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* 25. Can you please tell us of any positive experiences you have had with
any SEND Service?

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* 26. Can you please tell us of any negative experiences you have had with
any SEND Service?

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* 27. FORUM DEVELOPMENT:
Based on parental feedback in 2020/21, there are several areas we feel we should concentrate on over the next year.
Which do you think are the most important? Tick all those you think should be priorities
We are already involved in work on Preparing for Adulthood, the Autism Strategy , the Therapies review and an ADHD strategy so we haven't included these areas in the list

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* 28. Part of the forum's on going strategy is to make contact with more families every year.
To do this we are hoping to introduce a 'Parent Champion' role where parents can talk to other parents either in their school or within their particular community( Mosque, Church, Synagogue etc) about the forum and to gather parental feedback about services- this may involve arranging coffee mornings in schools or taking groups of parents to coffee shops to gather feedback and then to feedback to the steering group. 
If you feel this is something you would like to do please leave your name and contact details below and we will get back to you

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* 29. Do you have any suggestions as to how we can reach more communities?" 

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* 30. Parents forum reps attended 688 hours of meetings over the course of 2020/21 and we expect that this year there will continue to be a high number of meetings where parental inclusion is needed. So that we have the capacity to cover all the meetings where we feel it is important to feedback parental concerns, we would like some additional parents to join our 'pool ' of reps to be used in a variety of meetings. It would involve attending meetings, workstreams , usually with at least one other parent on a topic of interest. The reps who attend would be expected to feedback a short paragraph of the content of the meeting and any actions for the forum. How many meetings you attend would be dependent on the project you are working on- most are time limited so it may be one meeting a month or a term. 
If you would like to be a forum rep, please add your name and email address below and the areas you are interested in i.e education, health, social care, early years, mental health, CAMHS, short breaks etc

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* 31. How can the forum communicate with you better?

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* 32. Are you already a member of Waltham Forest Parent Forum?

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* 33. If you are NOT already a member and would like to join, please complete the membership form on our website: www.walthamforestparentforum.com or add your details below and I will add you to our database

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* 34. And finally......What is your ethnic background ?
The information you provide will be used only for statistical monitoring. You do not have to provide this information but please let us know this by ticking the 'Prefer not to say' box

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* 35. Thank you for completing the survey, the results of which we will use in our work this coming year and will be shared with the LA and health partners.
All responses will be anonymous.
However, if you would like to be entered into a prize draw for completing the survey, please add your name and email address below
The survey will remain open until  5PM 19th May

 
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