About Parent Partnership Service (PPS)

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Our service is free, confidential and impartial

We offer information, advice and support to parents/carers of children with special educational needs across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.  Go to Who we can help for more details.

You can contact us yourself, most of the people who contact us are parents/carers.

We can help parents/carers with these issues: -

• Special Needs procedures in school
• Statementing and Annual Review
• Exclusions information
• Disability Discrimination.

What are special educational needs?

If a child finds it harder to learn than other children of the same age, or has a disability which makes it difficult to join in, then he/she may have a special education need (SEN).   Many children have SEN at some point, such as difficulty with:

• Developmental delay
• Emotional/social/behavioural issues
• Difficulty with sight or hearing
• Physical disability
• Medical or health condition
• Learning in general, or in one area (such as reading)
• Communication
• Movement/co-ordination.

We can help you if there is a clear concern that your child has SEN, even if there is no diagnosis.

We can:

• offer information and advice
• help you with paperwork
• help you put your views to the right people
• help you to prepare for an education meeting or appeal, and support you if available
• contact other organisations, with your permission, to get more information.

We can work with you by:

• telephone or email
• information and advice sessions
• meeting by appointment.
  

We will not:

• tell you what to do
• discuss you with other people without your permission (unless concerned that you or your child may be at risk)
• assess your child
• offer legal advice (though we can give you information about where to go for this). 

How we work explains more about our way of working and our organisation.