The Parent Partnership Service provides parents of children with additional needs, aged 0-19 years, with impartial information, advice and support. This Service is available to parents of all children with additional needs (including disabilities and learning needs) who live in Bath & North East Somerset. Your child does not need to have a Statement of Special Educational Needs for you to use the service. Our aim is to empower you by providing you with information on national and local policies which will help inform your decisions.
The Parent Partnership Service offers impartial and confidential support to the parents of children and young people aged 0-19 when a child or young person has either been permanently excluded or fixed term excluded sufficiently to be called to a Governor's meeting.
We work in partnership with you and we encourage schools and local authority staff to work in partnership with you as well.
To contact us, please telephone 01225 394382 or e-mail parent_partnershipservice@bathnes.gov.uk.
Helpline Hours
10.00am - 3.00pm Monday - Thursday term-time only
The Parent Partnership Service is a Statutory Service that is provided in-house at Bath & North East Somerset Council. The Service provides impartial assistance and operates at “arms length” from the Local Authority.
Our aims
To ensure that parents/carers of children with Additional and Special Educational Needs have access to information, advice and guidance in relation to the educational needs of their children so that they can make appropriate, informed decisions.
Core activities of the service
- Working with parents.
- Information and publicity.
- Helping schools to work with parents.
- Training, advice and support.
- Networking and collaboration.
- Helping to inform and influence local SEN policy and practice.
- Exclusion Support
Key principles
Parents/carers of children with Additional/Special Educational Needs should feel they are treated as equal partners, able and empowered to:
- Play an active and valued role in their children’s education.
- Have difficulties identified early with appropriate intervention to tackle them.
- Have a real say in the way in which their child is educated.
- Have knowledge of what they can expect for their child as of right.
- Have access to information, advice and guidance during assessment and any related decision making process about educational provision, including transition planning.