Surrey’s 3rd Sector Additional Needs and Disabilities Network seeks to enhance partnership working and the sharing of information between charities and community groups with statutory partners to help inform the decisions and support provided to children with additional needs and disabilities and their families. Dates of the next work can be found in our events pages, and if you would like to discuss this group please do contact us.

Surrey Youth Focus, Family Voice and Emerge amongst other partners have been supporting the mobilisation and co-production of the new Surrey Keyworker Service for autistic young people and/or those with learning disability who have a mental health need – watch this space for details.

As partners we are supporting Surrey County Council in their work on the New Inclusion and Additional Needs Strategy 2023-26 | Surrey Local Offer  which amongst other work includes the co-production charter, action cards and support in the community.

We are supporting Surrey County Council in their work on the All Age Autism Strategy. This work brings together the thoughts and needs of autistic children and young people, autistic adults, family carers and Surrey SEND professionals to achieve an autism-friendly approach across the county, spanning education, health, social care, work and communities. The aim is that services have a more joined-up, proactive, timely and autism-accessible offer, and to promote a cultural shift so that community and service settings are understanding and welcoming for autistic children and adults.

Graduated response refers to the way in which services in Surrey work together with parents/carers, schools and other settings to improve the outcomes for children and young people with SEND. We are supporting Surrey County Council to ensure that there is a wide and diverse SEND offer available, that children and young people’s needs are identified at the earliest opportunity, and that the most appropriate support is put in place.

• Family Voice – familyvoicesurrey.org
• Local Offer – surreylocaloffer.org.uk
• ATLAS Surrey – surreyatlas.uk
• SEND Advise Surrey – surreycc.gov.uk/syas
• Neurodevelopmental Services – mindworks-surrey.org/our-services/neurodevelopmental-services
• Neurodevelopmental Services Out of Hours Advice Line – mindworks-surrey.org/our-services/neurodevelopmental-services/out-hours-advice-line
  An out-of-hours phone line provides advice to parents and carers who are struggling with behaviours or difficulties which could be related to neurodevelopmental need, such as autism or ADHD. Our skilled and friendly advisors will talk carers and families through ways of calming down difficult situations and remind them of their coping strategies. It runs from 5.00pm until 11.00pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Please call 0300 222 5755.