Webinar with Polly Kerr
Join us for this online event:
Tuesday 21st April, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
This event is open to parent carers across Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos, please choose the ticket for your local area.
Please note this session will not be recorded.
This online session brings together Polly Kerr (from Simpson Millar Solicitors) and local parent carer forums from Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Polly will guide families through the Government’s proposed SEND changes, explaining what is being suggested and what it could mean in practice.
Parent carer forums will also use this session to gather views from families to help inform a collective response to the national consultation.
How your views will be gathered
When you book, you’ll be asked 4 short questions
During the session, we’ll use live polls to gather further views
You can submit a question in advance or during the session, if you want to submit a question, use the form here: A webinar with Polly Kerr explaining the Government’s SEND plans – Fill out form
Due to the number of families attending, not all questions will be answered live, but all questions will be responded to in writing within a reasonable period after the session.
The feedback gathered will be used by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire parent carer forums to help shape their consultation response.
After the session
If you have any further questions about the White Paper, please get in touch with your Parent Carer Forum.
https://www.bristolparentcarers.org.uk
https://www.nspcwt.org/
https://sgpc.org.uk/
About Polly Kerr
Polly Kerr is a Partner and Head of Education and Children’s Rights at Simpson Millar, and a Trustee of SPACE Hertfordshire.
She specialises in education law, including SEND, EHCPs, disability discrimination, exclusions and safeguarding. Polly works with families to protect children’s rights and also supports schools to meet their legal duties.
Polly is also a parent carer, bringing both professional expertise and lived experience to this session.
At SGPC, our role remains the same: to represent the lived experience of parent carers in South Gloucestershire and to ensure that your voices are heard locally and nationally.
We know that system change must improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND. We will work alongside the NNPCF and partners to ensure that reforms lead to positive, meaningful and sustainable change for families.
We will continue to update families as more detail becomes available through our social media, website and members email list:
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