Family Voice Calderdale Annual Conference

Family Voice Calderdale is the Parent Carer Forum for Calderdale. One of the principles of the Children and Families Act (2014) is working together with parents of children and young people with SEND to co-produce services. Parent Carer Forums are funded by the Department of Education to work together with services to improve outcomes across education, health and social care.

Calderdale has a track record of establishing close working relationships across a number of areas, for example:

• SEND Pathfinder
• Parent representation on SEND workstreams
• Department of Education SEND Implementation Surveys
• Yorkshire and Humberside Peer Support Network of Local Authorities
• Local Offer including Local Offer Live events
• Project Search
• Calderdale’s Statutory Short Breaks Statement
• Short Breaks Panel
• Commissioning

Ofsted/CCG Local Area Inspectors value highly the involvement of children and young people and their parents in planning and reviewing provision across education, health and social care.  They especially value senior leaders’ understanding and being aware of parents experiences and concerns.

Family Voice Calderdale would be delighted to have senior representatives of services to participate in their Annual Conference. The theme of the conference is co-production in Calderdale, and the development of a charter for working together.

Please contact Heidi on 343090 to reserve a place.