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Parent Carers' Voice
Parent Carers’ Voice is a way for parent and carers to influence the way services for their children are planned and delivered in Devon.
Parent Carers’ Voice acts as a consultative mechanism between parents and carers of children with special needs and the services their children receive.
Devon's services for children and young people
- Devon schools information database
- DISCplus
- Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Devon Children's Trust
- Devon Family Service Directory
- Education Welfare Service
- Educational Psychology - Parents Information
- AXS Programme
- School complaints - Advice for parents (PDF File)
Family financial and planning
- Devon Welfare Rights Unit
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Face2Face Network - Parents supporting parents of disabled children
- Positive Parenting
- Parents Centre
- Family and Parenting Institute
- Directgov - Caring for someone
- Carers.org - help for carers
Equality
- Devon Racial Equality Council
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Every Child Matters: Aiming high for disabled children
Protection and safety
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
- Kidscape - bullying and child abuse
- Women's Aid
- Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT)
Services for the early years child
- Home-Start - supporting families in local communities across the UK
- Devon Portage
- Devon Early Years and Childcare Service
Moving from primary to secondary school
Moving on from secondary school
- Devon Transitions Protocol - for young people with special needs
- Connexions
- Job Centre Plus
- New Deal for young people
Areas of need
- Communication and Interaction
- Emotional, Behavioural and Social
- Cog and Learning
- Dyslexia Action
- National Children's Bureau
- Contact a Family - for families with disabled children
- Headway - the brain injury association
- Scope - for disabled people achieving equality
- British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC)
- National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS)
- National Blind Children's Society (NBCS)
- Sense - for deafblind people
- The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE)
- Epilepsy Action
- Down's Syndrome Association
- Gifted and Talented
SEN code of practice
- Devon County Special Education Team
- Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
- Information for SENCOs - role and responsibilities of SENCO
- Wessex Mediation - Disagreement Resolution Centre
- Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal
Government services for children and young people
- Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
- The Standards Site: Homework
- Ofsted
- Teachernet
- Teachernet - Exclusion
Sites with a range of information