Thursday 27 May
All events are hosted online. To join an online session, please register your place.
Transition from Children’s to Adults Community health services – a focus group
9.15am to 10.15am
A session to gather feedback from parents / carers of young people with SEND about the Transitions process at 19 years / adulthood and more specifically to look at current perceptions of transfer of health services in the community.
Session lead: Gillian Hardy, Leicester Partnership Trust
Length of session: 1 hour
Number of places available:12 delegates
Stories with Symbols
10.30am to 11.30am
What if you could access high quality videos all about well known children's books made accessible to children with speech, language and communication needs? What if those videos were designed entirely around those children - in structure, in layout, even with communication symbols to support the meaning? What if those videos were completely free?
Session lead: Alex Rowe, Stories with Symbols
Length of session: 40 minutes
Annual Health Check
11.45am to 12.45pm
A question and answer session on health checks for 14 years upwards who people of who have learning disabilities
Session lead: Lindsey Heald, Leicester Partnership Trust
Length of session: 30 minutes
Number of places available: 20 delegates
This is Homefield College
1.30pm to 2.30pm
An overview of what life is like at Homefield College, hear a curriculum manager and a student perspective. An opportunity to ask question about our application processes
Session lead: Homefield College
Length of session: 1 hour
Big Mouth Forum Education and Housing Live meeting
4.15pm to 5.15pm
A live meeting with Directors from education and social care, Cllrs responsible for education and housing and Heads of Service for SEND. It will be an opportunity for the young people to share their messages to managers and for the young people to ask questions to councillors, directors etc. Young People and Parents will be able to listen to the conversations and discussions and at the end of the meeting the parents and young people can ask forum members what its like to be a forum member, roles and responsibilities of forum members etc
Session leads: BMF and Senior Leadership, Leicester City Council
Length of session:1 hour
Number of places available: 50 delegates
Welcome to Leicester’s Early Years Service
5.30pm t0 6.30pm
An overview of who the Early Years Service are and how they can support children with additional needs aged 0 – 5 years.
Session lead: Sarah Mounsey
Length of session: 1 hour