Type of service: Parent partnerships, Parent partnerships, Family support and information services

Service URL: http://www.localoffer.southwark.gov.uk

The Southwark Information Advice and Support (SIAS) team is an arms-length service which offers impartial advice to parents and young people. The SIAS team believes that every journey counts and therefore ensures our services provide parents, children and young people with the information and support necessary. The SIAS team has been established to ensure that parents, carers of children and young people aged 0 to 25 years old with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have access to information, advice and guidance to allow them to make informed decisions about their education and 16 plus choices. .

The Southwark Information Advice and Support team (SIAS) offer parents support, training and advice on topics including:.

• Special Educational needs

• Communicating with schools and other agencies

• Transition from nursery to primary school

• Transition from primary to secondary school

• Advice for all parents on applying for a school place

• Age 16 Plus education and Career choices

• How to request for an Education health care plan

• Helping parents and young people understand tribunals

• Support parents, carers and young people complete an appeals process

• Attend school meetings

• SEND exclusions .

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Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of a young person, Young person