Welcome to SENDIASS Oxfordshire

Free, impartial information, advice and support for parents with children who have special education needs and/or disabilities.

Resources

We have collected together for you answers to the questions which SENDIASS Oxfordshire gets asked most often. We hope you will find the suggestions and information useful.

My child is struggling at school

Have you noticed a challenge for your child which their school hasn’t? Or has a teacher mentioned something which they are particularly struggling with? It...

My child has an EHCP – or I think they need one

Parents often ask about getting an EHCP for their child. Here we explain that the first step is requesting an assessment of their child's Special...

Suspended or Permanently Excluded

There is a very clear process that schools must follow when deciding to suspend or permanently exclude a pupil and there is government guidance which...

Post 16

In this section you will find information on what happens at the end of Year 11. Bear in mind, that the Children and Families Act...

Constructive Conversations and Routes of Redress

It is always in a child’s best interests when people can work together. Even when communication between parents and schools, or parents and the Local...

What parent carers say about us

I am extremely grateful for the professional help and support which I received. I believe that our case will end well for my child and me. We received invaluable advice without which we would never have achieved such a positive outcome for our daughter.

I found SENDIASS an invaluable service. The help I received was fast and informative . The ladies I spoke to were helpful polite, friendly ,also very supportive . Nothing was too much trouble .I would like to thank everyone from SENDIASS for the wonderful and vitally needed job they all do . They have been extremely helpful for the understanding of my situation. Given great support and help when I’ve had nowhere else to go.

I have already recommended Sendiass to parents at school and a work colleague who haven’t heard of you and they have already shared their relief at knowing there is someone ‘there’ who knows what we are going through as parents and can support ultimately our child but us as well. It’s also amazing that this invaluable service is free.

I really appreciate all the information and advice I have received. It has been a huge help as it has helped me mentally after having many sleepless nights about everything to know exactly what I have to do.  Thank you so much, amazing service.

Both of the SENDIASS Advisers who supported me were incredibly knowledgeable, reassuring and calming. I was completely overwhelmed by the appeal process, it felt like we had no chance to change the decision made. They guided me through and I am very grateful.

My SENDIASS Adviser was absolutely fantastic, patient, kind, compassionate and extremely knowledgeable. She made a very challenging and difficult time more bearable

Absolutely perfect: – advice was specific, timely, accurate and practical. If only you ran the whole system!

I can’t praise my SENDIASS Adviser highly enough – knowledgeable, understanding, prompt, helpful in exactly the right ways at the right times. She was the rock of support I needed

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