Making sure the voice and needs of Kingston SEND families are heard
Kingston SEND PCF is made up of local parents and carers who work to ensure children with special educational needs and disabilities and their needs are heard and understood by local services and decision makers.
We also make sure parents and carers have access to events and information that they might find useful as a SEND family.
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We love this introduction to autism by amazing things. It aims to raise awareness among young non-autistic audiences, to stimulate understanding and acceptance in future generations. It is intended to be viewed, discussed and shared widely by anyone but especially teachers and parents.
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Last week the Kingston SEND Parent Carer Forum met to discuss the SEND reforms and how we want to respond to the consultation, listening to local parents and also impacting the SEND Reform plan locally
We identified five key areas we want to discuss and in the next five weeks we will publish five questions that we will ask you to answer
Our priority areas were as follows
What Inclusion Looks Like (When it is expected most young people will be in local mainstream)
Family and School Relationships (Working in coproduction on Individual Support Plan)
Transition to Secondary
Meeting Mental Health Needs
Accessible Environments (For example, how schools look and feel, but also policies like behaviour policies_)
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What is FUEL? 🔥🍎
FUEL (which stands for ‘Feed Ur Everyday Lives’) is the name for the holiday activity and food programme (HAF) in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is funded by the Department for Education 📚 and run by Achieving for Children 🤝.
We make free places at holiday clubs available during the Easter 🐣, summer 🌞 and Christmas 🎄 holidays for young people who receive benefit-related free school meals. Young people can attend 4 sessions over Easter, 16 sessions over the summer and 4 sessions over winter ❄️.
The aim of the FUEL programme is for young people to:
🥗 Eat healthily and understand nutrition
🏃 Be more active through engaging and enriching activities
🛡️ Be safe and not be socially isolated
🏘️ Learn more about the different services families have available in the local area
Young people will get their lunch provided at the club 🍽️. There are lots of clubs and activities to choose from, and they run across a range of dates, times and locations 📍.
Clubs and activities include: 🚴 cycling; 🎬 film-making; 🧘 yoga; 💻 technology and coding; 🛹 skateboarding; 🎨 art and crafts; 👩🍳 cooking; 🧗 indoor climbing; and lots of sports such as 🏏 cricket, ⚽ football, 🏐 netball and 🏉 rugby.
We hope that there will be something that every young person will want to try 🌟.
Who can take part? 🤔
Priority places will be given to young people aged 5 to 16 years (including 4-year-olds if they are in reception) who are receiving benefit-related free school meals.
📧 Email: fuel@achievingforchildren.org.uk
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SEND Parents Help is a free AI assistant that covers:
DLA 💷
EHCPs 📄
Blue Badges ♿
school transport 🚌
Carer’s Allowance ❤️
and more than 100 other topics 📚.
It’s built on a curated knowledge base drawn from official government guidance and trusted charities like IPSEA not the open internet. When it doesn’t know something, it says so rather than guessing.
It's completely free, no sign-up, nothing commercial behind it, and private by design.
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