Welcome to the all new Northamptonshire’s Parent Partnership Service website

 On this site you will find information about the main strands of our service:

  Choosing a School

  Special Needs Educational Advice

  Parent Participation

  Exclusions

You will also find information about us and links to other relevant sites, news and events, a glossary and much more.

If you have a child with a special educational need or have concerns over any aspect of their education e.g. transfer to secondary school, support arrangements in school or if they are at risk of exclusion and you would like to speak and discuss this with someone confidentially, then our service is there to help.

We have designed this site for you, please use the feedback form to let us know what you think and if we can improve the content and information in any way.

   SEND Pathfinder  
 
  The DfE have published today (15th May) their next steps
  document following the Green Paper publication in March 2011.
  To see this document click on the link below:

  Support and aspiration: A new approach to special
  eductional needs and disability - Progress and next
  next steps

What is the Pathfinder?

Northamptonshire is now part of the national pathfinder programme for the Green Paper about Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) with Leicester City.
As part of our Pathfinder we have been asked to test the integration of education, health and social care, including:

• a co-ordinated approach to Single Assessment
• a Single Plan for age 0-25
• Personal Budgets
• support to parent carers and young people
• support to vulnerable children, including children in care and children with complex
  health needs up to the age of 25.

We are really excited that we will have this opportunity to take forward this important initiative, which is crucial in raising our ambition to provide a more transparent and integrated process for families.

We need to design something that can provide all this to families in a simple and effective way possibly from a variety of sources including schools, voluntary and community providers and education, health and social care providers.