Barnet PPS

Parent Partnership Barnet offers free, confidential, impartial information, guidance, advice and support for parents/carers of children with special and additional educational needs.

The service is available to all parents of children with a special or additional educational need that is between the ages of 0 – 19 years.

What do we get involved with:

• Children who are having problems with learning in school
• Children with behavioural/emotional/social difficulties
• Children at School Action/School Action Plus
• Accompanying parents to meetings at school/with the council
• Supporting parents at and in preparation for annual reviews
• Helping parents to write letters to school/ council
• Applications for statutory assessment
• When the council decides not to commence a statutory assessment
• Exclusions – fixed term and permanent
• Secondary transfer
• Issues around school placement
• Signposting parents to other services
• Help with appeals to Special Educational Needs Disability Tribunal (SENDIST), but not attending tribunals.

We also offer other services:

• Training and information workshops for parents
• Drop-ins for parents at schools and Children Centres 
• Providing information guides for parents
• Support in starting parent support groups in schools.

For more information please see our website:

http://www.barnet.gov.uk/a-z/index

Contact:

Parent Partnership Service
North London Business Park (NLBP)
Oakleigh Road South
London
N11 1NP

Tel:
020 8359 7637

Text Number (SMS):
07781 473279

Fax Number:
020 8359 2480

Typetalk:
18001 020 8359 2040

Email:
parent.partnership@barnet.gov.uk

Website:
http://www.barnet.gov.uk/a-z/index