Somerset’s Local Offer pages are a hub of information on supporting children and young people aged 0-25 years old with additional needs in Somerset, and their families. Our Events page is always growing! Keep up to date with SEND events…

Connect Somerset is about all professionals and community groups working together to help families and residents to improve their lives. It is a partnership between Somerset Council, Somerset NHS, Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprises, and Schools, Colleges, and Early…

Somerset Youth Forum is inviting all young people in Somerset aged 10-18 years (or up to 25 years with SEND) to a special session to discuss the final stages of the new Children and Young People’s Plan and its launch.…

In preparation for the upcoming general election, Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has developed a resource specifically designed for children and young people: What is a General Election? Resource for children and young people This resource…

The Fit for Work Program aims to help adults with disabilities get ready for employment. It offers a 10-week program, with sessions lasting 2 hours each week. Coaches will focus on various sports and strength and conditioning training to prepare…

A project to support young people’s wellbeing by discovering what makes them happy has resulted in a new e-zine. 30 organisations and 620 young people in Somerset have taken part in the “What Makes You Happy?” community project. The year-long…

Charting the achievements from April 2023 to March 2024, the new SENDIAS Annual Report looks at the operational functions, support, development, and the difference the team has made. The SENDIAS Team provides free impartial, confidential advice and support about education,…

Excellent, free training available to support hearing the child’s voice. Route1 Advocacy is a service that supports children and young people in care, and those receiving a service from Children’s Social Care. They do this by matching volunteers with young people…

It’s one of the largest volunteer forces in the country – and now you could be a part of it by giving time to become a school governor. Being a school governor is a challenging but hugely rewarding role. It…

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) are launching a new campaign! “SSCP NAI Awareness Week 2024” will be launched in the first week of July (1st to 5th), aimed at raising awareness about non-accidental injuries to babies and support services…

Easy to follow online modules enable children to learn English or over 120 other languages – all for free with a Somerset library membership! Children can now access up to 120 language learning modules via the Transparent Languages Online ‘Kidspeak’…

Local organisations are collaborating to support children and young people and prevent concerns around violence in key town centre locations. While Somerset remains a safe place to live, we recognise the need to engage with young people, parents and guardians…

Do you have questions around SEND and Inclusion? Do you want to share your views on how things are working for your child? We are delighted to announce the first of our three Let’s Talk SEND & Inclusion events for…

                  All the workshops are delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer. Alongside this there will be information workshops held both face to face and online.…

We have created a list of Hard Cases and schools are being notified if one of the pupils in the school needs this additional focus to bring the issues that have been raised to a positive solution.  As we progress…

The day runs from 10am-2pm and will be packed with exciting and inclusive activities run by our providers for children with disabilities and their families to try out. These include drumming, laser tag, badge making, tabletop games, giant Jenga, cricket,…

We’re trying to increase collaboration between professionals and their community, and increase the amount of early help that’s available for families and residents.  So the emphasis is absolutely on the existing brilliant joint working, volunteering, community resource such as hubs…

May’s Unstoppables meeting was full of hard work and laughter. We had a busy agenda to work through with some important topics to have discussions about. The topic for the meeting was the ‘CYPP’ (Children and young peoples plan). Every…

I have recently taken on responsibility for SEND Commissioning, alongside the fantastic Inclusion Commissioning Team currently working to Nathan.  I’ll mainly focus on strengthening our commissioning of Independent Non-Maintained Schools and Alternative Provision, getting data, costs and quality under control,…

What is the purpose of this consultation survey? We want people to have their say on the draft document to create a fully co-produced final version. The draft content in this document has already been developed by various stakeholder groups,…