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SEND Local Offer online

The SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) Local Offer is the name used to describe the provision available locally for children and families with SEND. This includes everything the Local Authority provides, services, facilities, funding, schemes etc. as well as everything provided by other groups and organisations in the borough - everything ‘local’ for families with SEND.

Each Local Authority must provide access to the information online resource (website).


Ealing's Local Offer online includes:

  • Early years and childcare provision
  • Links to SEND provision within all schools
  • How to request an Education, Health & Care (EHC) Assessment & Plan
  • Health services
  • Leisure activities
  • Social care services, including short breaks
  • Training opportunities
  • Travel for children and young people to places of education
  • Preparing for adulthood (new section design in progress)
    This is what the Local Offer home page looks like
    The website is easy to navigate and all the content can be switched to an alternative language using the ‘Google Translate’ feature top right of the screen.

It also has accessibility settings (top right) where you can increase the size of the text and change colours to accommodate any sight impairments.

As part of our SEND Local Offer, we also run a Facebook page called
Enable Ealing Families

You will find current, up-to-date information on a range of social events, news, top tips on making your home safe, and specialist equipment shops, inspirational ideas on keeping your child entertained/days-out, disability friendly places of interest and more.

Please tell us how relevant each desired outcome is to you. You can change the wording or suggest something else … use the right hand column to comment.

Desired outcome / Content / Parent Feedback
Is this something you want to see on our Local Offer website?
I would like my child to be assessed for Special Educational Needs.
/
  • What to do if you have a concern about a child’s development, speech and language.
  • How to access an assessment i.e. for Autism.

What support is available for my child specific to their needs? /
  • Services in place, what they do and how to access them under condition headings such as Autism, Hearing difficulties, Visual difficulties etc.

Understand and access an EHC Assessment & Plan /
  • What they are
  • How to access the assessment
  • Process and stages – what to expect
  • Reviews etc

SEN support for my child in education /
  • What support is in place and how it works, how it is reviewed, participation and rights

Support for Preparing for Adulthood /
  • What should be happening /what needs to be achieved at different age groups.
  • Support for work, higher education, getting housing, living independently

I am concerned about my child’s development /
  • What to do about a concern in terms of a physical disability
  • Learning disability
  • Special Educational Needs

What am I entitled to in terms of benefits and other funding /
  • Direct payments
  • Personal budgets
  • Carers Allowance & other benefits

Housing & Adaptations /
  • Who to contact for what in terms of getting housing
  • How to request adaptations
  • And how the system works

Get special offers and find out about specialist equipment /
  • What special offers exist within the council
  • What is provided by external partners
  • Suppliers of specialist equipment

Participate in the development of Ealing’s Local Offer /
  • Result from previous consultations
  • How to feedback
  • Current consultation offer

What leisure activities are available for my child? /
  • What activities and providers exist locally?
  • What support through short breaks?
  • Financial assistance

5 Minutes 5 Questions
SEND Local Offer Online

Please help us to improve our information delivery in support of children, young people and families with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), by completing this short questionnaire. SEND Local Offer link:

  1. About your family
/ What is the age of your child?
What is the main additional need or disability they have?
  1. Awareness
/ Have you heard of the SEND Local Offer Online? Have you used it?
  1. Information needs
/ Please think back to the last time you needed some information to support your child / young person in terms of SEND needs.
What did you need to look up?
  1. Access
/ Did you go online to look for information?
If you used Ealing’s SEND Local Offer – how was it? Please mention good points and room for improvement.
  1. Developing the system
/ What information would you most like to see / find out about / be able to access online?