2. Parents and carers can contact their local Parent Carer Forum to request details of how they can attend to the discussions held between parents and carers and the Ofsted/CQC inspection team. 3. Parents and carers can email their contributions to . 4. Details the local area SEND inspection will be available on your local authority’s website and distributed through the local area’s Clinical Commissioning Group/s (CCGs). Information about how children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities can share their views about the local area’s effectiveness should be included in the local offer. While we understand that many parents and carers may have views on their experience that extend before the implementation of the reforms in September 2014 it important that this date is used as the start for the judgements made under the new inspection remit. We would also like parents and carers to understand that we will not be able to follow up or comment upon individual cases. During this inspection, the inspectors will collect information about children and young people in the area. They will be looking at local area records, speaking to area officers and leaders at educational settings, and speaking to children, young people and parents or carers. No names will be recorded, but some of the information collected may be capable of identifying a particular child, young person or adult. Ofsted and CQC will use this information to prepare their report, and for the purposes set out in their privacy notices. No information will be published that identifies any individual in the inspection report. More information is available in the Ofsted and CQC privacy notices which can be found here: . Ofsted’s Data Protection Officer is the Director, Digital and Information who may be contacted at . CQC’s Data Protection Officer is the Head of Governance and Legal Services who may be contacted at Information on local area duties toward children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities can be found on the Department for Education’s website: Yours sincerely Jen Southall Her Majesty’s Inspector
2. Parents and carers can contact their local Parent Carer Forum to request details of how they can attend to the discussions held between parents and carers and the Ofsted/CQC inspection team. 3. Parents and carers can email their contributions to . 4. Details the local area SEND inspection will be available on your local authority’s website and distributed through the local area’s Clinical Commissioning Group/s (CCGs). Information about how children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities can share their views about the local area’s effectiveness should be included in the local offer. While we understand that many parents and carers may have views on their experience that extend before the implementation of the reforms in September 2014 it important that this date is used as the start for the judgements made under the new inspection remit. We would also like parents and carers to understand that we will not be able to follow up or comment upon individual cases. During this inspection, the inspectors will collect information about children and young people in the area. They will be looking at local area records, speaking to area officers and leaders at educational settings, and speaking to children, young people and parents or carers. No names will be recorded, but some of the information collected may be capable of identifying a particular child, young person or adult. Ofsted and CQC will use this information to prepare their report, and for the purposes set out in their privacy notices. No information will be published that identifies any individual in the inspection report. More information is available in the Ofsted and CQC privacy notices which can be found here: . Ofsted’s Data Protection Officer is the Director, Digital and Information who may be contacted at . CQC’s Data Protection Officer is the Head of Governance and Legal Services who may be contacted at Information on local area duties toward children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities can be found on the Department for Education’s website: Yours sincerely Jen Southall Her Majesty’s Inspector
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