✅ Parent Carer groups can be involved in Barnsley SEND Community Consortium as long as they meet the agreed criteria.
What is the Barnsley SEND Community Consortium?
🤝 The consortium is a hub that brings together representatives from parent carer support groups, services and leaders from across the Barnsley Local Area to enable co-production and joint working with all partners.
It is the way that parents and carers of children and young people with SEND have a key role in shaping and influencing decisions made about SEND services across the local area, at all levels including strategic level change.
Click here to see a diagram of the current structure (Opens a PDF)
👨🦳 👩🦰 The consortium brings together 2 representatives from each group to present data, experience and knowledge gathered from members of their respective groups from across Barnsley.
📅 Barnsley SEND Community Consortium accepts new members twice a year. At the start of the spring term (after the Easter Holidays) and in September (at the start of the new school year.) There is an eligibility criteria which can be found in their Terms of Reference
Find out more
You can contact the SEND Participation Team if you would like more information or to discuss how your group can become involved.
📱 SEND Participation Assistant 07733314775
📧 sendworkingtogether@barnsley.gov.uk