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Public Reading for the Children & Families Bill

    The DfE are trialling “public readings” for proposed legislation. You can feed your views into the public reading of the Children and Families Bill here The consultation closed on 26 February 2013

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Children & Families Bill – published

    The Children and Families Bill was published by the Department for Education on 5 February 2013.  The Bill can be read here or a web version can be read here.   A factsheet to accompany the  Bill from the DfE can … Continue reading

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Parents in Surrey wanted to take part in the Pathfinder

Family Voice Surrey are asking for families to come forward if they wish to be involved in the Pathfinder. Find out more by visiting their site.  Details available here

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How are parents in Hampshire involved with the Pathfinder?

Parents are involved in all aspects of the Pathfinder program in Hampshire, in a variety of capacities.   The main “Change Board” decides on the strategy and direction for pathfinder activity in Hampshire and we have 2 parents reps on … Continue reading

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Where was it?

Trying to find the Green Paper, the draft Legislation, the Scrutiny Committee report and other DfE documents can be time-consuming. All of the documents are in our useful links page, under Legislation and DfE Links

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SE7 Conference

On 12 November, 2012 SE7 held a conference in London to share the learning from their members. Check out the SE7 Conference page to see the slides from the day.

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How are parents in West Sussex involved in the Pathfinder?

In WS we have a parental steering group of 10 to 13 parent carers who look at all the work streams within WS, this group not only attends this meetings/workshops but is a great sound boarding for  other questions and issues … Continue reading

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Did SE7 feed into the select committee?

  All Pathfinders and any interested parties had a chance to write into the Select Committee before November to raise their views on the draft legislation.     SE7 Leads and SE7 Parent Carer Forum group sent in their responses as … Continue reading

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Select Committee publish their recommendations

On 20 December, 2012 the Select Committee published their report with recommendations. A full copy of the report can be found here  

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Pathfinders Extended

On 6 November, Edward Timpson, MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families) announced that the SEN & Disability Pathfinders will be extended by 18 months. The Pathfinders were due to end in March 2013 but they will … Continue reading

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