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Summary and Guidance
19 Jul 2019
Template- Joint commissioning SLA
Template for a joint Service Level Agreement (SLA) between Local Authorities (LA's) and Clinical Commissioning Groups…
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Report
09 Jul 2019
IASSN- Phase two Data Report 20-21
This National Information Advice and Support Service's (IAS) Measures Report contributes to an overview of IAS service…
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Comment
03 Jul 2019
NCB's trip to Parliament: Raising awareness of the gap in services for young people
On the 30th of April, the National Children's Bureau left their East London office for Parliament, to raise awareness…
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News & Opinion
Toolkit and Multi-Media
30 Apr 2019
Statistical neighbour bench-marking tool
A tool developed by the IASSN to find and compare services that are ‘statistical neighbours' and therefore are simil…
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Report
30 Apr 2019
IASSN - Phase one Data Report 18-19
This National Information Advice and Support Service's (IAS) Data Report contributes to an overview of the range and n…
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IPSEA - Resources
In the Summer of 2018 IPSEA launched their Legal Resources Portal, this contains a range of IPSEA briefings and case l…
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02 Aug 2018
Updated - local area SEND inspection outcome letters published
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Redbridge now added.
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Toolkit and Multi-Media
16 Jul 2018
IAS Services - what they are/how they can help? (short films)
A couple of videos looking at what IAS services are, what they can do, and how they can help. The aim of the videos…
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Summary and Guidance
12 Jul 2018
Minimum Standards for IASS
The Minimum Standards for Information Advice and Support Services (IASS, sometimes known as SENDIASS) were finalised i…
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East Midlands
Minutes from the Regional Meeting on 22nd March 2018
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09 Apr 2018
A new partnership funded by the Department for Education to deliver a new Information, Advice and Support Programme
CDC and Contact the preferred bidder.
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Summary and Guidance
23 Jan 2018
IAS Services - Commissioning Guidance
In 2017 the IASS Network gathered together a working group to support the development of guidance for commissioning/es…
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07 Mar 2019
FLARE Social Media Week: Rights Session Plan
The Council for Disabled Children ran a social media week on 8th April 2019. They wanted to encourage young people to…
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05 Feb 2019
CDC Winter Digest 2019
Welcome to your CDC winter Digest. A snapshot of this quarter's digest: CDC's conference on getting relatio…
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10 Dec 2018
Factsheet #7: Monitoring and Evaluation
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20 Jul 2021
A post card from (virtual) Serbia
Phillipa Stobbs, Assistant Director, Education, Council for Disabled Children
A recent piece of work by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (the Agency) reviews a range o…
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08 Jul 2021
Next Steps on the SEND Review: A Blog from CDC
The cross-Government SEND review was launched over two years ago. Since then a huge amount of work has taken place, ev…
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01 Jun 2021
Lessons Learnt From Lockdown: The highs and lows of the pandemic's impact on disabled children and young people
Between February and March 2021, as part of the Making Participation Work programme which is funded by the Department…
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