SENDIASS
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service or SENDIASS is a free, confidential and impartial service for parents and carers, children and young people (up to 25 years). The type and range of support offered includes:
* Information regarding the local offer, local policy and SEN/ disability law from independently trained staff
* Advice for paren
t/carers, children and young people on gathering, understanding and interpreting information
and applying it to their own situation
* Personalisation of personal budgets
* Information on the local authority’s processes for resolving disagreements, its complaints procedures and means
of redress
* Signposting children, young people and parents to alternative and additional sources of local and national
information, advice and support
* Individual casework and representation where needed including support in attending meetings, contributing to
assessments and reviews and participating in decisions about outcomes for the child or young person.
* Support for parents and young people in managing mediation and appeals to the SEND Tribunal
