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Wandsworth Autism Advisory Service (WAAS)

1        Wandsworth Autism Advisory Service – overview 2        Educational Settings 3        Parents and Carers 4        Children and Young People 5        What’s On   WAAS – Overview       Who we are? Our service is a multi-agency team with professionals from education, teaching, SEND, Speech and language therapy, multi therapy team,…

High Needs Provision Capital Allocation

The Government is supporting local authorities to deliver new places and improve existing provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and / or Disabilities. This funding has been provided to local authorities through a new grant called the High Needs Provision Capital…

Relationships, Sexual Health and Education

Relationships and Sex Education Practitioners who have experience of teaching Relationships and sex education to young people with learning disabilities realise that on-going support over time and life stages is needed.  What is most important is that information on topics is given in honest and…

Wandsworth Strategy for Children and Young People with SEND aged 0 – 25, 2020-2024

Wandsworth Children’s Services, NHS South-West London Clinical Commissioning Group (SWLCCG) and Positive Parent Action as the Local Area partners, offer a warm welcome to the readers of our SEND Strategy 2020 – 2024. This strategy marks a significant point along our improvement journey in the…

Children's Services Commissioning Strategy 2020-2022

Commissioning is the strategic activity of identifying need, allocating resources and procuring a provider to best meet that need, within available resources. Effective and intelligent commissioning enables us to procure services that deliver the priority outcomes set out in our strategic plans: those that meet the…

Bereavement Information and Support

Losing someone important to us can be emotionally devastating - whether that be a partner, family member, friend or pet. It is natural to go through a range of physical and emotional processes as we gradually come to terms with the loss.   Grief doesn’t have…

SEND Local Offer Annual Report to September 2021 - August 2022

Our SEND Annual Local Offer Report covers most of the activities we undertake throughout the course of the year in relation to our Local Offer these include; - Regular activities that we undertake, such as maintaining the Local Offer web pages.- Changes that we have…

Where do I start?

Have you just found out you or your child has or may have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)?  Have you recently moved to Wandsworth with a child or young person with SEND or who may have SEND? Either way, Wandsworth's SEND local offer is here to help.  On…

GDPR and the DCR, WAND and WAND+ card holders

The General Data Protection Regulation or "GDPR" – what does it mean for the information we hold about DCR, WAND and WAND+ members? Organisations (like the Local Authority) must manage data that we hold about individuals, keep records about what information we have, why we…

Personal Budgets

Personal budgets are available for support which is individual to the child or young person. They allow parents and young people more choice and control over the support they receive. Personal budgets (some of which can be taken as a direct payment) are available to…