IPSEA

IPSEA

At a glance

Causes

  • Campaigning
  • Children / families
  • Counselling / advice
  • Education
  • Learning disabilities / difficulties
  • Physical disabilities
  • Young people

Other details

Geographical remit: 
National - England

Objectives

Objectives

  1. To provide services for children and young people with SEND and their families/carers, including access to accurate information, advice and tribunal support.
  2. To inform and educate professionals and practitioners within educational, local authority and charity sector settings, to ensure all children and young people with SEND are assessed and obtain the education they are entitled to under the law.
  3. To influence and improve SEND policy development and implementation across England, using evidence from our work with children, young people and their families and carers.
  4. To maximise the skills and capacity of volunteers, and create opportunities for people who want to volunteer to support, develop and extend our service.
  5. To maximise the skills and capacity of staff to deliver IPSEA’s strategic plan and deliver efficient services.
  6. To ensure the appropriate governance, leadership, infrastructure and funding are in place to ensure IPSEA continues to be sustainable, forward looking and provides high quality services that are responsive to the needs of children and young people with SEND, and their families and carers.

Activities

Providing the right educational support to meet a child’s individual needs is life-changing. Our services bring direct benefits for children with SEND including:

  • Securing a place at the most appropriate school to meet a child’s individual needs
  • Securing additional support at school to meet a child’s individual needs
  • Guaranteeing that children’s needs are properly assessed
  • Bringing successful appeals to the SEND Tribunal
  • Resolving unlawful exclusions from school
  • Ensuring that children out of school receive suitable alternative education 

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