SEND Local Offer
Welcome to Middlesbrough’s Local Offer
The Local Offer is where we have brought together useful information for children, young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.
It is here to help you find information, advice and guidance about the types of services and support available to you in our local area. We have worked in partnership with Parents4Change and young people to develop our offer and will continue to do so to ensure you can access the right support at the right time.
Come along to the Virtual Drop In Sessions with the Inclusion and Specialist Support Service.
These sessions will be held via video conferencing
- Wednesday 17th March – 10am to 11am
- Thursday 15th April – 1pm to 2pm
- Monday 10th May – 1pm to 2pm
- Wednesday 9th June - 10am to 11am
We would like to set up a Middlesbrough wide Parent Partnership. This partnership will lead on key discussions and developments within the local area to support children and young people with SEND.
If you would like to be part of this partnership please can you respond to Lisa_Cowley@middlesbrough.gov.uk who will send you an invite to the meeting. The first meeting will take place via WebEx Video call on Wednesday 12th May from 10-11.30.
Read the recent open letter from Vicky Ford, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), their families and carers and those who work to support them.
Read the updates and all the letters from Minister Ford on our Coronavirus - Education Updates page
The Inclusion and Specialist Support Service (Formally the SEN Assessment Team and Alternative Provison team) can be contacted 5 days a week via our duty/ Single point of contact number. The team will be available:
Monday to Thursday - 9am to 5pm
Friday - 9.00am to 4.30pm.
Anyone requiring information should contact the SEN Single Point of Contact/SEN Duty Number on (01642) 201831 or via email sen@middlesbrough.gov.uk
We are constantly receiving updates to guidance from the government around Coronavirus and the impact to children with SEND. For more information, take a look at our 'Coronavirus - Education updates' page
We have also set up a text alert service to keep families updated. Please contact the SEN team on 01642 201381 or email sen@middlesbrough.gov.uk if you would like to sign up to this.
Please encourage those who do not have internet access to contact the team and sign up too.
We are now on Facebook!
Join our Facebook group 'Local Offer - Middlesbrough' and keep up to date on anything SEND.
From 1st March 2021, Barnardo's are now providing the South Tees SENDIASS offer across Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland.
SENDIASS is for parents and carers of children and young people 0-25 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the South Tees area - and for their children too.
SENDIASS - Information, Advice and Support Service | FIS Middlesbrough
Great News!! £10 million to help disabled or seriously ill children in England during Coronavirus.
Family Fund has received extra funding worth £10 million from the Department for Education to provide grants for families on low incomes raising disabled or seriously ill children in England this year.
Apply at the Family Fund Website
Read the joint ketter to parents and carers from the Director of Education and Partnerships and Joint Director of Public Health.
Joint Letter from Director of Education and Partnerships and the Director of Public Health
Our Participation team worked together with young people who have been supported by Childrens social care to bring together a new vision of how Chldrens Services can support young people.
What is the Local Offer?
These pages provide information and advice about the services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families living in Middlesbrough. This is described as the Local Offer.
You will see that we have divided the different services into useful categories. If they have our Local Offer (LO) icon in the top right hand corner, it means they either provide a specialist service or have told us about how they can meet the needs of children and young people with SEND.
There are also advice and guidance pages within the website which we hope you will find useful.
We would love to hear what you think about this website. All feedback is viewed and will be used to enhance our website. View the Compliments, Comments, Complaints & Concerns page.
What if someone doesn't have access to the internet?
If you do not usually have access to the Local Offer website, for example if you or someone you know does not have the internet, you can contact us by telephone on 01642 727598 and we will help you find the information you need, we can also print pages out for you.