Influence, Include, Inform
“Co-production happens when people receiving services work in partnership with the planners, commissioners and providers to imagine, design and deliver better services"
- We promote Parent Carer Participation with Wokingham Borough service providers to co-produce services.
- We gather families’ views through surveys and consultations and share them with service developers and commissioners.
- We hold Coffee Mornings and Evening Drop-Ins across the Borough to understand parent carers' concerns and where services are working well.
- We attend regular meetings about the planning and development of services to ensure families' voices are heard.
- We are part of working groups on specific projects, such as revising a document or devising a diagnostic or care pathway.
- We help partners produce clear, useful information for families
- We organise the Local Offer Live, an annual family information and fun day, bringing together families and services to share information and support.
- We offer parent carers training opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge and participation
- We publish an annual report and provide half-termy updates on the work we are involved with to our mailing list.
Take a look at the UPCOMING EVENTS we currently have planned. Come and JOIN US.
Meetings We Attend
SEND Voices Wokingham attend a number of different meetings representing a range of topics, here are some we attend:
- Pan Berkshire SEND Joint Implementation Group
- Wokingham Area Strategic SEND Partnership Board
- Local Area SEND working groups eg Local Offer, SEND Sufficiency, EOTAS and Alternative Provision, SEND Support
- Local Offer review & development meetings
- EHCP review audits
- Coffee mornings
- CAMHS
- SEND Providers Forum
- Short Break Steering Group
- SENDIASS Steering Group
- Health, including neorodiversity pathways support, LD CAMHS and ICB meetings
- Autism Strategy
- SEND early Years Partnership
- NNPCF SE19 SEND Forum
- Wraparound Care Working Group
Our AGMs & Annual Reports
2024 Annual Report (Report and Accounts January 2023 to March 2024)
2023 Presentation & Financial Report
WBC/Health SEND Innovation & Improvement Presentation ~ Q&A's SEND Innovation & Improvement Update
2022 Presentation & Financial Report ~ EHWB Presentation (including focus group feedback) ~ Approved Minutes from 2021
2021 Presentation & Financial Report~ Question Time Q&As ~ Approved Minutes from 2020
2020 Presentation & Financial Report ~ 2020 Ofsted 1 Year on Q&A's
Our Newsletters
What We Can't Do
SEND Voices Wokingham works on issues that affect a number of families by representing the views of parent carers in the local area. Unfortunately, we are unable to undertake individual issues that parents and carers have about their own child and are unable to offer a 1-1 advocacy service.
SEND Voices Wokingham is not a campaign group. The role of parent carer forums is to promote parent voice through participation and co-production. We acknowledge the important role that campaign groups have in helping to get parent voice heard. SEND Voices Wokingham are happy to work with campaign groups by providing them information and feeding back the issues they raise.
However, please contact us with any concerns or issues, as other parents may well have the same issues which we can then represent or we will signpost you to other relevant organisations. We can also use your experiences (anonymised and with your permission), as case studies to highlight issues and best practice.
