Leaflets for the Parent Partnership Service

Please feel free to print these leaflets or contact us to get paper copies. Text only versions are available directly underneath the graphical versions.

• Can we help? - About the Parent Partnership Service (PDF,  934 KB)  Updated February 2012.
  General information about Parent Partnership Service
• Can we help? - About the Parent Partnership service, text only version (PDF, 66 KB)
  General information about Parent Partnership Service
  
• Choosing a New School (PDF,  252 KB)  Updated February 2012.
  Information about where to find details of new schools and what to look out for.  Includes a list of questions you may want to ask when visiting a possible new school (also available separately below). 
• Choosing a New School, text only version (PDF, 111 KB)
  Information about where to find details of new schools and what to look out for.  Includes a list of questions you may want to ask when visiting a possible new school (also available separately below). 
• Choosing a New School - Questions to ask (PDF,  80 KB)
  A list of questions you may want to ask when visiting a possible new school. 
  
• Education in the Early Years (PDF, 1.6MB)  Updated August 2012.
  A guide for parents and carers of children under 5 who have additional needs
• Education in the Early Years, text only version (PDF, 94KB)
  A guide for parents and carers of children under 5 who have additional needs
  
• Meetings go Better When You Prepare (PDF, 1.1MB)  Updated August 2012.
  Tips for parents on going to formal meetings in schools or with other education staff
• Meetings go Better When You Prepare, text only version (PDF, 81 KB)
  Tips for parents on going to formal meetings in schools or with other education staff
  
• Moving up to secondary school (with statement) (PDF, 2MB) Updated February 2012.
  Information for parents whose children are 9, 10 or 11 years old and have a Statement of Special Educational Needs
• Moving up to secondary school (with statement) text only version (PDF, 81MB)
  Information for parents whose children are 9, 10 or 11 years old and have a Statement of Special Educational Needs
  
• Moving up to secondary school (without a statement) (PDF, 2.72 MB)  Updated August 2012.
  Information for parents whose children are 9, 10 or 11 years old and do not have a Statement of Special Educational Needs
• Moving up to secondary school, text only version (without a statement) (PDF, 106KB)
  Information for parents whose children are 9, 10 or 11 years old and do not have a Statement of Special Educational Needs
  
• Your Child's Transition Review (PDF, 1.81 MB)  Updated September 2012.
  A guide to the process in education for parent or carers whose child aged 14 + and in year 9 has a Statement of Special Educational Needs
• Your Child's Transition Review, text only version (PDF, 105 KB)
  A guide to the process in education for parent or carers whose child aged 14 + and in year 9 has a Statement of Special Educational Needs

Department for Education Publications

Special Educational Needs (SEN): A guide for parents and carers

This guide aims to help parents and carers understand what special educational needs are and what they can do if they are worried that their child may be having difficulties at, or before, they go to school.

It also describes what early education settings, schools and local authorities and other services can do to help their child, and what rights they and their children have.

The publication can be downloaded from the DfE website guide for parents

Special Education Needs: Code of Practice

The code of practice became effective from 1 January 2002. From then LEAs , schools, early education settings and those who help them – including health and social services – have been obliged to have regard to it.

The code is designed to help these bodies to make effective decisions regarding children with SEN . It does not (and could not) tell them what to do in each individual case.

This document should help schools and LEAs to obtain the best value from the considerable resources and expertise they invest in helping children with special educational needs.

The publication can be downloaded from the DfE website code of practice