Parent Participation: Making It Happen
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April 2009 - Anna Gill and Karen Wooddissee from Norfolk Family Voice talk about their experiences in setting up a parent forum - the aims, achievements and challenges they faced and where the forum is now.
Parent Participation is about empowering parents and helping them to become involved in shaping the services that their disabled children need. Parents have strong views about the services they get; whether agencies are working together and most of all, whether the needs of their children are truly being met.
A great deal of recent legislation and guidance on health, education, social services and the early years requires the involvement of users in planning services.
Increasingly professionals are involving parents in shaping services because they recognise that it benefits everyone and can lead to a more cost effective service.
Parent Participation is about empowering parents and helping them to become involved in shaping the services that their disabled children need. Parents have strong views about the services they get; whether agencies are working together and most of all, whether the needs of their children are truly being met.
A great deal of recent legislation and guidance on health, education, social services and the early years requires the involvement of users in planning services.
Increasingly professionals are involving parents in shaping services because they recognise that it benefits everyone and can lead to a more cost effective service.
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The Department for Children, Schools and Families has appointed the Together for Disabled Children partnership to support the Aiming High for Disabled Children short breaks programme and development of parent participation forums.
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For more information about parent participation contact:
Liz Ranger - Parent Participation Manager
Tel: 020 7608 8784
e-mail: liz.ranger@cafamily.org.ukOr visit:
http://www.togetherfdc.org/Topics/ParentalParticipation.aspx - 2 years ago
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