Get Involved, Help us Enhance, Shape and Co-produce our SEND Local Offer Website

We want your idea's, your views and your help! Young People, Parents/Carers please get involved, help us Enhance, Shape and Co-produce our SEND Local Offer Website. To get involved with our online meetings. to sign up, please email andrew.jennings@sefton.gov.uk or call/text 07989 223937. If you…

Care at the Chemist service extended in Sefton

Sefton’s ‘Care at the Chemist’ scheme has a new extended service, providing treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs), better known as water infections, directly from local pharmacies without the need to be seen by a GP. Women between the ages of 16 and 65 years…

An Important update from Alder Hey Hospital

We want to remind parents/carers that our A&E is still very much open for illness and injury  We are, as always, focusing on delivering emergency care, so if your child does NOT have symptoms in the red/amber sections below, please consider other options. Thank you.…

Service update from the Continence Service in Sefton for Children & Young People (4-19 years)

                                                                            November 2022. Dear Colleague We are writing to inform you of a few updates to our Sefton Continence Service.   From Friday 18th November 2022, we will no longer be accepting paper or telephone referrals. We would ask that you complete the attached referral…

Warm spaces network opens for Sefton residents

Sefton residents facing a difficult winter because of soaring fuel bills and rising prices in the shops, now have a network or Warm Spaces available across the Borough where they can go without the fear of what they are spending on gas and electricity. From…

Sefton Council warns loan sharks circling as cost of living crisis bites

Sefton Council is warning people not to turn to loan sharks as the national Cost of Living Crisis takes hold. Circling Loan sharks are circling, knowing that many local people are going to be facing difficult choices between feeding their family and heating their home,…

Check out the lastest edition of the Aiming High Newsletter

Please click below for the latest edition of the Aiming High Newsletter.     Please click here to view the previous edition of the Aiming High Newsletter.   We are always looking at improving Sefton’s SEND Local Offer, please click here to give us feedback.…

SEND Parent/Carer Survey 2022 outcome report

In March this year parents and carers of children/young people with SEND had the opportunity to take part in a fourth survey on what is going well and what could be improved in our local area.  This was a similar survey to that of Spring…

‘COVID and I are both still here,’ warns Sefton Health Chief, Margaret Jones

Margaret Jones, Sefton Council’s Director of Public Health Sefton Council’s Director of Public Health Margaret Jones said today that she hasn’t gone away and neither has COVID. With levels of COVID infections in the Borough at the highest level for 15 months Margaret Jones said…

Sefton Complex Needs Parent/Carer Survey

Please click here to complete the Survey https://yourseftonyoursay.sefton.gov.uk/strategic-support/c99fe549/ Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.  The feedback you provide will be used to help shape and develop services for children with complex needs in the future.  The survey closes on the 5th…

Preparing for Adulthood Guide, check it out!

Please click here to view the “Preparing for Adulthood Guide” The guide has being co-produced with staff from Sefton Council, Buddy Up, Health and Sefton Carers Centre in partnership with young people and the Sefton Parent Carer Forum. Click here to open a Print Version…

Young Person's Next Steps Annual Transition Event

In February 2022, local Special Schools participated in the annual Transition Event. This gives young people with additional needs an opportunity to see what life might look like as they take their next steps in education. Local Further Education Colleges and School 6th Forms were…

Developmental Language Disorder Awareness

Welcome to RADLD.ORG, created to Raise Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder or ‘DLD’. (Previously RALLI campaign). Here you will find resources that explain what DLD is, the impact it can have, how to get help and how to raise awareness. Have a look, tell us…

New, ‘Ask for ANI’ domestic abuse codeword scheme providing help through pharmacies

Independent pharmacies and Boots stores are now offering a codeword scheme to support victims of domestic abuse. The scheme means those at risk or suffering from abuse can discreetly signal that they need help and access support by Asking for ANI at any of the…

Universal Services Guide

The Universal Services Guide has been produced for families and individuals who want to find out about and access services that will support them.  The guide is split into age ranges; however information in earlier or later age sections may be useful. The Sefton Directory has…

EHCP Journey - told by Sefton young people!

This animation presents the EHCP journey from a young persons perspective and young people have been involved at all levels in creating the content including artwork, voiceover and script design. We have co-produced with young people affected by SEN and disability across Sefton.

Meet Emily! - How does SEN support work for her?

Emily has shared with us a glimpse of life at school. The film captures some of the support Emily receives to enable her to succeed alongside her peers at Forefield Junior School. We have co-produced with young people affected by SEN and disability across Sefton.…

Sefton's SEN support pathway - animation

We are beginning to showcase some work we have co-produced with young people affected by SEN and disability across Sefton, in partnership with Atomic Productions and Rix Wiki. This animation explains how the SEN pathway in Sefton works.

Please give us SEND Local Offer Feedback

Please click here to complete a short SEND Local Offer Survey. Thank you for taking part and helping us improve Sefton's SEND Local Offer together.

Ofsted SEND revisit outcome information

Sefton Council wants children and young people across the borough to reach their full potential and fully recognises that services for those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) need improvements. An action plan has been developed and agreed by the Department for Education (DfE)…