What is the Local Offer?
The local offer can help you find out more about support and services for:
- your child
- you
It will also tell you:
- who to contact to get more information
- how to contact them.
You can find your local offer on your local councils website.
If you do not use the internet, you can ask your local council on telephone - 01484 221000 or your Local Offer team - 01484 416 919 for information that is written down.
Your local offer tells you what services and support you can get. This will include information for you and your child about:
- Childminders, nursery’s, schools and colleges
- Transport
- Preparing for adulthood
- Support to get a job
- Housing options
- Support with taking part in sport and other activities
- Looking after your health
- Local groups, like parent carer forums
- How your child will be assessed to see what support they need.
How can you be involved?
What you think about the local offer is important to your local council.
We would like to know from you:
- What information you think should be in your local offer
- Is there anything missing from the local offer
- How good are existing services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and their families
- How easy is it to find the information you are looking for in the Local Offer better.
How can you tell us what you think?
- Fill in our online feedback form, found in the News, views and reviews section of the local
offer website - Take part in a survey, consultation or user testing
- If we are running a survey, consultation or need people for user testing details can be found in the News, views and reviews section of the local offer
Important words
Children are aged between 0 and 16.
The Local council is the group of people who look after things in a local area like services to support children and young people who have special educational needs and disabilities.
A person who has disabilities:
- may have problems with their health
- may find it harder to do things than other people
The Local Offer service is where children, young people and parents can go to find out more information about special educational needs and disabilities and how to get the support they need.
A child or young person who has special educational needs may:
- find it harder to learn than other people of their age
- face challenges that make it hard to go to school or college
- need different or extra help to learn.
Young people are aged between 16 and 25.