Enfield Parent Partnership Service
As a Parent Partnership, we are committed to supporting parents/carers by providing information advice and advocacy on special educational needs and exclusion policies and legislation. In doing this we enable parents/carers, by giving them the ‘tools’, to become active participants in their children’s education. Whilst we work closely with schools and the LEA we are completely independent and impartial.
WE SUPPORT CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS/CARERS SO THAT THEY ARE EMPOWERED AND ENABLED BY:
- Helping parents/carers to voice their concerns and communicate with their child’s teachers and other educational personnel
- Helping parents/carers contribute to Statements of Special Educational Needs, placements and annual reviews, or help with any other educational issues.
- Having an understanding of the exclusion process – from looking at the range of support/preventative strategies and the stages atwhich these are implemented - to life after permanent exclusion and helping families to come to terms with this.
- Providing a service that the families of children with Special Educational Needs and/or whose with children who have been/are at risk of exclusion can rely on.
Enabling parents to become effective partners involved in their children’s education.
WE PROVIDE ADVOCACY, MEDIATION, ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION SERVICES BY:
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Offering advice parents/carers and children on the various options available and support in decision making and action.
- We offer representation and advocacy when parents/carers meet with statutory bodies.
- Encourage effective communications between early years settings, schools, parents and pupils, where all concerned can work co-operatively, and ensure that the parents’ voice is always considered in the planning for their child’s education.
INFLUENCING POLICY AND LAW
Informing policy makers in the local authority and nationally about parents/carers concerns and difficulties, in order to influence policy and bring about positive change.
REMAINING INDEPENDENT, IMPARTIAL AND PROMOTING EQUALITY IN ALL OUR ACTIVITIES
The skills that we need to undertake our work are diverse but include a good knowledge of current legislation and policy relating to special educational needs, exclusion, disability awareness, conciliation skills as well as an ability to work in partnership with parents/carers, schools, LEAs and other agencies.
We encourage teachers to invite us into their schools at every opportunity.
Promoting inclusion, wherever possible, in the implementation of children’s individual needs.
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
- Promoting home-school partnership and close working relationship with those involved with the child.
- We are committed to working with schools, providing information on special education needs and exclusion policy and legislation, especially to those parents who are not confident about coming into schools.
- We are also committed to working in partnership with schools, LEA and other statutory/voluntary agencies in the interest of children with special educational needs and those at risk of exclusion and/or excluded.
- Encouraging schools to work in partnership with the parents/carers in the decision making which will help the child ‘realise their potential’.
- Our service is free and open to all children who live in or go to a school in the Borough of Enfield. We work with children age 0 - 19 years old.
- Please call us to talk through any problems you or your children may have and let us support you to find a way forward that benefits everyone involved. We all work part time and are often with parents at school meetings, so please leave your name, telephone number and a short message on the answer phone and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Please refer to the EPPS Fact Sheet Index for more information
If you are a new service user and have not yet completed our evaluation form, please download the form here and email it back to us at enquiries@enfieldparents.org.uk.