Parent Partnership
Supportive
Parents provides the Parent Partnership Service for North
Somerset. This service is confidential and provides support to
parents of children with special educational needs.
We offer information and support by means of a telephone
information and support line, face-to-face support at meetings and
help with written information, to enable parents to play a more
active and informed role in their child’s education.
Our Information and Support Line is available Monday,
Wednesday and Friday 10.00 am - 2.00 pm during term time. An answer
phone is available at all other times. Tel: 0117 989 7725
Support Groups - these are held each month alternating
between Weston -super-Mare and Portishead. We often arrange for
speakers to be at the meetings and further details can be
found on our
website.
For more details or to contact us please ring the Helpline Team
on 0117 989 7725 or go to our
website.
Disagreement Resolution
Wessex Mediation
provides a Mediation Service specifically for children and young
people with Special Educational Needs.
The service provides independent and impartial mediators to help
when parents/carers and the education authorities, including
schools, cannot agree on how to meet a pupil's special educational
needs. It is a process that gives the parties involved in the
dispute a way to find a resolution that they can live with. The
mediator provides the opportunity to resolve disputes but does not
influence the outcome.
Their leaflet
Special Educational Needs: Resolving
Disagreement (pdf, 107MB) gives more information
about the service.
