Calderdale Local Offer - ‘Your Local Offer is Our Local Offer’

The Local Offer has two key purposes:

  • To provide clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the available provision and how to access it, and
  • To make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving disabled children and young people and those with SEN and their parents and service providers in its development and review.

The Local Offer should be:

  • Collaborative: local authorities must involve parents, children and young people in developing and reviewing the Local Offer. They must also cooperate with those providing services.
  • Accessible: the published Local Offer should be easy to understand, factual and jargon free. It should be structured in a way that relates to young people’s and parents needs (for example by broad age group or type of special educational provision). It should be well signposted and well publicised.
  • Comprehensive: parents and young people should know what support is expected to be available across it. The Local Offer must include eligibility criteria for services where relevant and make it clear where to go for information, advice and support, as well as how to make complaints about provision or appeal against decisions.
  • Transparent: the Local Offer should be clear about how decisions are made and who is accountable and responsible for them.

To help us create a Local Offer that does everything listed above we need you to providethe Local Authority with up to date and clear information that is ‘straight to the point’.

Please complete the template below and return to:

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For further information about the Local Offer please contactus on 01422 392164, Mobile 07714 922672 or email (address above)

Organisation name
Contact details:
Address
Telephone number
E-mail
Facebook
Twitter
Offer / Make this section clear, straight to the point and jargon free.
Eligibility / This information will feature prominently in the Local Offer.
Parents have said that there is nothing worse than reading about brilliant provision only to find that they do not meet the eligibility criteria.
Age range / The Local Offer will be displayed in sections relating to age.
Early Years, 5 to16, Post 16 and Preparing for Adulthood
How to access provision / This information will feature prominently in the Local Offer.
Times/opening hours / As well as opening hours include length and times of sessions where possible.
Cost / Be clear about costs.
Some parents and young people will be managing their own personal budget and will need clarity on costs and payment methods.
Transport / Detail of any transport you or your partner organisations provide and any support you provide towards transport costs.
Main contact details for information
Databases / Please include details of any databases that your information is currently available on.
Other Information / Please provide other relevant information that is not captured in the table above.

Feb 2016