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Spotlight on SENDIASS advisers
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SENDIASS (SEND Information Advice and Support Service) Gloucestershire provides FREE, CONFIDENTIAL and IMPARTIAL ADVICE and support on matters relating to children and young people (0-25) with special educational needs and disabilities and their families. Young people 16+ can also access the service by themselves.
In every newsletter, we will be focusing on one member of the hardworking experts at SENDIASS, who provide confidential, impartial advice and support on SEND – for FREE to parent carers in Gloucestershire.
In this edition, we introduce NIta.
After leaving university Nita joined the Civil Service. She had a variety of roles in both the Home Office and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, including representing the UK at our British High Commissions in Ghana and Pakistan and representing the Home Secretary in Tribunal hearings.
Nita is trained in IPSEA SEND Law Levels 1, 2 and 3 and is a member of the Council for Disabled Children Information, Advice and Support Services Network. She has also undertaken further professional training through SOS SEN. As an adoptive Mum, and parent carer, Nita is passionate about the rights of care-experienced children and young people.
When she has time. Nita likes to cook and is studying to be a yoga teacher. Nita loves to travel and advocates for social change through volunteering.
More about SENDIASS - Like every local authority, Gloucestershire has to provide such a service that is free, easy to access and confidential.
SENDIASS is accountable and legally obliged to have regard to the minimum standards based on the requirements relating to support that SENDIAS services must provide, as set out in the Children and Families Act (CFA) 2014, the SEND Code of Practice.
This means that the information, advice and support that SENDIASS offers is firmly based in the law and the SEND Code of Practice. SENDIASS Gloucestershire provides unbiased information and advice about the local authority’s policies and procedures and about the policy and practice in local schools and other settings.
You will be speaking to an IPSEA Level 3-trained adviser (like Nita) with many years of previous professional experience in SEND.
SENDIASS can offer advice on topics including how schools can support children with SEND, the Gloucestershire Graduated Pathway, the EHCP process and more. The service can help you understand and/or complete official documents and help you to prepare for and even accompany you to meetings, appeals and tribunals, as well as signpost you to other organisations that may be able to help.
SENDIASS - Expert, confidential, impartial advice and support on SEND – for FREE. Contact SENDIASS today if you need guidance.
