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Spotlight on SENDIASS advisers - Karin
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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.
In this edition, we introduce Karin.
Karin is a very knowledgeable adviser having been with SENDIASS since 2015 and an adviser with the Parent Partnership Service before that. Karin has seen many changes over the years and has experienced the service as both an in-house and outsourced service.
Before she joined SENDIASS, Karin held various roles within the County Council including as an adviser with the Family Information Service, as well as a role within the Legal Services Team.
Karin 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.
In her spare time, Karin enjoys travelling, cooking, gardening and spending time with her family including four grown-up children and two grandchildren.
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 Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (IPSEA)-trained adviser 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 Education Health and Care Plan (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. For more information, visit Gloucestershire’s Local Offer, Support for Families with SEND and contact SENDIASS today if you need guidance.
