Get involved
Join Us – our strength is in our numbers
You can become a Member of Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice if you have a child age 0-25 with any Special Educational Need or Disability (whether they have a diagnosis or not) and you live in or access services for your child in Warwickshire.
Membership is FREE – join by completing our membership form
Why be a member?
- Receive our newsletter for local, regional and national SEND news and updates
- Tell us your views and ideas via surveys and consultations
- Access WPCV events and training
We also offer an associate membership for professionals and support group contacts who are not eligible for individual membership but who are interested in supporting our work – sign up here to get our newsletters.
You can also choose to get more involved on Facebook and Twitter
We run entirely on volunteers, for our Steering Group, our Parent Reps and any other volunteers who help us out at events or coffee mornings, or with admin. We need you to help us build Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice into an organisation that can make a difference in shaping co-produced services taking into account the needs and preferences of parent carers of children and young people with SEND.
Join us here and tick the volunteer check box to help us in our mission.
Become a WPCV Rep
WPCV Reps work with the Steering Group to ensure that parental views are fed back to those who provide local services. They do this by talking to local families to gather information and by attending meetings with service providers.
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Join the Steering Group
The role of the steering group is to help shape the direction of the forum. The steering group meets at least once every half term to review the work plan and set the future work. The steering group also makes financial decisions and authorise any expenditure inline with the finance policy of the forum. Steering group members act as representatives attending meetings and events.
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Give us your feedback
We have a feedback survey where you can share your experiences or feel free to complete the form below.
feedback form
About us
We are a voluntary group of parent carers, all experts by experience, with a lived understanding of how challenging life can be raising a child with additional needs and / or disabilities.
Our aim is to gather the voices of Warwickshire parent carers and let these be heard to ensure that services meet the needs of our children and our families.
Join Us
You can become a Member of Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice if you have a child age 0-25 with any Special Educational Need or Disability (whether they have a diagnosis or not) and you live in or access services for your child in Warwickshire.
OUR STRENGTH IS IN OUR NUMBERS
Volunteer
We run almost entirely on volunteers, our Steering Group, our Parent Reps and those who help out at events or coffee mornings or with admin. We need you to help us build Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice into an organisation that can make a difference in shaping co-produced services, taking into account the needs and preferences of parent carers of children and young people with SEND.
Links & Support
Help us build this into the ultimate signposting resource so that the parent carers in Warwickshire can find all the information they need quickly.
What We've done
Find out what your Parent Carer Forum is up to and what’s been happening for families of children and young people with SEND in Warwickshire.
News & Events
Pilot SEND AREA Inspection
This briefing is to give parent carers a guide to what the pilot inspection is about and what will happen as part of this process. What is a SEND Inspection? Area SEND Inspections are jointly carried out by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who inspect...
Continence service
Hope the poo emojis catch your attention and make you smile but this is a serious request Following feedback received through our feedback form https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/WPCVGeneralFeedback/ we raised the issue of the lack of Continence Services for Children and...
SEND AND ALTERNATIVE PROVISION GREEN PAPER
We are working with Solihull Parent Carer Voice and Birmingham Parent Carer Forum to put on a session about the SEND Green Paper at 10am on Tuesday 14th June - if you want to know more, have any questions etc please do come along. To register please scan the QR code...
Carer’s Week
This week is Carer's Week and the theme is about making caring visible, valued and supported. So this is our 'big shout out' to all the parent carers in Warwickshire.
mileage rates
We are pleased to hear that following our enquiries into mileage rates paid to parents for home school transport the offer was increased to 45p per mile with effect from the start of the summer term, applied to everyone in receipt of travel payments.
Together with autism conference
We had a great time meeting parents at the Act for Autism Conference on Saturday. We asked parent carers what they wanted people to know about their autistic children and have gathered this in this graphic which we have shared with the commissioners.
Home School Transport
29th March 2022 10.30am-12pm Online (zoom) FREE Book here Find out more about your child's rights to home to school transport (including for post-16 and post-19)
SEND Survey
Our 2022 SEND Survey is now live. Local education, health and social care services work together to provide services for children and young people who have special education needs and / or disabilities (SEND) and their families. Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice wants...
SEND law for parent carers
We are really excited to be offering this IPSEA course for parents - scan the QR code to book your place.
Written Statement of ACtion
Following the Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC) local area inspection of Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) in July 2021, Warwickshire County Council and Coventry and Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group in conjunction with Warwickshire...