Becoming A Member Of The Forum
This is open to all parent carers of a child or young person who is living with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), whether diagnosed or not from 0-25 years and who live in, or receive services from the county of Lancashire.
Being a member of a Parent Carer Forum means joining our community and receiving newsletters and updates via email. We would encourage and welcome your feedback through surveys, consultations and events. Our work in the forum aims to collect your voice by sharing your experiences, with a goal to influence improved services for children and young people with (SEND).
It's about collaborating with our local authority and other services and organisations to ensure services are effective and meet the needs of families.
How Can I Help?
Everything we do is currently voluntary and done by a very small group of dedicated parent carers. A lot of hard work is going on in the background to transform LPCF but we can’t do this alone!
We need lots of help to ensure we can effectively communicate the work we are doing, signpost you to support networks and to share your voice, experience and knowledge at relevant meetings with senior managers. This includes directors responsible for services in education, health and social care. This will ultimately allow you to directly highlight the challenges families are facing and help pave the way for better quality, easier and fairer access to provision
Here's a none exhaustive list on how you can help
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Spread the Word
Share our website and Facebook community with others.
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Engage on Social Media
Join conversations on Facebook and help develop and grow our social media platforms, we want to hear your views!
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Website Support
Assist with the ongoing development and maintenance of our website.
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Administrative Support
Help with tasks such as updating the website, taking meeting minutes, or creating posts for the SEND newsletter and local news/events.
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Become a Member
Attend our events (online or in person) to represent parent voices.
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Become a Volunteer
Become a Volunteer within the forum, there are many roles to fill! .
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Event Support
Attend local events and if you're a keen photographer, help us capture those moments.
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Support Special Projects
Get involved with initiatives like the Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) project.
Volunteering To Help The Forum
We have established a small group of enthusiastic volunteers to help with the running of the forums work. We are working on a volunteering induction and training pathway and are going to need lots of help moving forwards with exciting projects involving the forum. We have launched a new project involving a number of Family Hubs, SEND roadshows and virtual Let's Talk sessions.
Volunteering is open to all parent carers of a child or young person who is living with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), whether diagnosed or not from 0-25 years and who live in, or receive services from the county of Lancashire.
Being on our team of Volunteers involves getting involved in the work of the forum, sharing your experiences and helping to influence improved services in our community.
It's about collaborating and coproducing with our local authority and other services and organisations to ensure services are effective and meet the needs of families.
Got something to say?
Write your feedback on our Graffiti Wall.
Building a graffiti wall of feedback for services - making sure your voice is HEARD and SEEN too on our Graffiti wall.
If you would like to write on our wall click on the image below and complete our google form version.
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