Have your say

Hampshire SEND Youth Forum: A forum for young people aged 14-25 who represent wider groups of young people with SEND, they work as a Steering Group, overseeing the strategy and action plan and ensuring the voices of other young people are considered in decision making. They have created a SEND Participation Strategy.

SEND Groups and Youth Forums: There are a range of groups in schools, community settings and partner organisations for children and young people including those with SEND. These group engage with the forum ‘as and when’ to support wider participation and bring forward their views from different lived experiences, representing a wider group of young people.
Young People Sub Groups: The SEND Youth Forum will also stand up ‘Sub Groups’ that will bring together young people with specific interests or to move forward pieces of work. This should support young people to get involved in area that interest them.

Hampshire SEND Youth Forum: A forum for young people aged 14-25 who represent wider groups of young people with SEND, they work as a Steering Group, overseeing the strategy and action plan and ensuring the voices of other young people are considered in decision making. They have created a SEND Participation Strategy.

SEND Groups and Youth Forums: There are a range of groups in schools, community settings and partner organisations for children and young people including those with SEND. These group engage with the forum ‘as and when’ to support wider participation and bring forward their views from different lived experiences, representing a wider group of young people.
Young People Sub Groups: The SEND Youth Forum will also stand up ‘Sub Groups’ that will bring together young people with specific interests or to move forward pieces of work. This should support young people to get involved in area that interest them.

In Hampshire County Council there are a range of opportunities for children, young people and families to get involved and have a say, some group that focus on SEND include:

KIDS and Council For Disabled Children’s Young People’s Participation (South) Making participation work – Kids The Department for Education has jointly commissioned Kids with the Council for Disabled Children to deliver a national participation programme with disabled children and young people, and those with Special Educational Needs.
Hampshire Parent Carers Network (HPCN): Provides opportunities for parents of children and young people with SEND to feedback to the Council, Health and other services. This includes an annual questionnaire that helps shape change in the local area.
Hampshire SENDIASS: An impartial Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) that aims to make a positive and lasting difference for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disability (SEND) and their parents and carers. SENDIASS regularly feedback information and areas of concerns to the Council and our partners.

There are also opportunities for young people to get involved with a range of other Voice activities, the below groups are open for all young people and welcome young people from all backgrounds, including those with SEND:

#BeeWell regularly collects information from children and young people across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. They also host Youth Matters a group for young people to help shape the direction of the #BeeWell programme.
Hampshire Youth Parliament are elected UK Youth Parliament members, alongside a Youth Council who engage with Hampshire County Council on a range of issues, and undertake campaigns based on the UK Youth Parliament Make Your Mark votes.
Hampshire Hospitals Youth Forum allows young people 11-16 years old who are a patient or have used the children's health services at Basingstoke Hospital or Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester to have your say and help us to shape the way children's services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You only need to be able to volunteer two hours of your time, a few times a year.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Youth Commission enables young people to support, challenge and voice young people’s opinions from all across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to help shape decisions about policing and crime.
Youthwatch Hampshire is a network of volunteers aged between 16 and 25 who are passionate about young people’s rights, and keen to make a difference in health and social care.
School Councils: Many schools in Hampshire have School Councils that provide a platform for children and young people to express their views and participate in decision-making process within School. Talk to your school about opportunities.
Equality and Rights Advocate (EARA) groups: Are groups of students from secondary schools across the county who work collaboratively to promote equality and child rights in their schools.

In Hampshire County Council there are a range of opportunities for children, young people and families to get involved and have a say, some group that focus on SEND include:

KIDS and Council For Disabled Children’s Young People’s Participation (South) Making participation work – Kids The Department for Education has jointly commissioned Kids with the Council for Disabled Children to deliver a national participation programme with disabled children and young people, and those with Special Educational Needs.
Hampshire Parent Carers Network (HPCN): Provides opportunities for parents of children and young people with SEND to feedback to the Council, Health and other services. This includes an annual questionnaire that helps shape change in the local area.
Hampshire SENDIASS: An impartial Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) that aims to make a positive and lasting difference for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disability (SEND) and their parents and carers. SENDIASS regularly feedback information and areas of concerns to the Council and our partners.

There are also opportunities for young people to get involved with a range of other Voice activities, the below groups are open for all young people and welcome young people from all backgrounds, including those with SEND:

#BeeWell regularly collects information from children and young people across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. They also host Youth Matters a group for young people to help shape the direction of the #BeeWell programme.
Hampshire Youth Parliament are elected UK Youth Parliament members, alongside a Youth Council who engage with Hampshire County Council on a range of issues, and undertake campaigns based on the UK Youth Parliament Make Your Mark votes.
Hampshire Hospitals Youth Forum allows young people 11-16 years old who are a patient or have used the children's health services at Basingstoke Hospital or Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester to have your say and help us to shape the way children's services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You only need to be able to volunteer two hours of your time, a few times a year.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Youth Commission enables young people to support, challenge and voice young people’s opinions from all across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to help shape decisions about policing and crime.
Youthwatch Hampshire is a network of volunteers aged between 16 and 25 who are passionate about young people’s rights, and keen to make a difference in health and social care.
School Councils: Many schools in Hampshire have School Councils that provide a platform for children and young people to express their views and participate in decision-making process within School. Talk to your school about opportunities.
Equality and Rights Advocate (EARA) groups: Are groups of students from secondary schools across the county who work collaboratively to promote equality and child rights in their schools.

At the bottom of our webpages you will find this:

If you click on either face you will be taken to a short form which allows you to contact us to feedback on the contents of this website.

We want to hear from you!

Have we not included some information that you need?
Could you not find what what you were looking for?
Did we get some information wrong?

Whatever your feedback, good or bad we want to hear it to help make this website the most useful and accurate resource for parents, carers, young people and professionals as we can.

At the bottom of our webpages you will find this:

If you click on either face you will be taken to a short form which allows you to contact us to feedback on the contents of this website.

We want to hear from you!

Have we not included some information that you need?
Could you not find what what you were looking for?
Did we get some information wrong?

Whatever your feedback, good or bad we want to hear it to help make this website the most useful and accurate resource for parents, carers, young people and professionals as we can.

Hampshire County Council regularly launches Public consultations that provide opportunities for members of the public to share their thoughts on Council services

If you have an EHCP, at each annual review young people and parents/carers have an opportunity to have a say about their individual circumstances, there are a range of person-centred planning resources that can support young people to ensure their views are included.

For more information on giving your views, watch this video.

If you have an EHCP, at each annual review young people and parents/carers have an opportunity to have a say about their individual circumstances, there are a range of person-centred planning resources that can support young people to ensure their views are included.

For more information on giving your views, watch this video.

In Hampshire County Council Adult services we want to make sure that people who use services are at the heart of what we do as a department. This means there are a lot of things going on to involve people who use services and carers in designing services and making plans and strategies for the future. There are all sorts of things that you can get involved in; surveys, questionnaires; focus groups; projects; conferences and more.

You might like to join the Personalisation Expert Panel. This is a service-user led group that meets with the departmental management team to guide the direction of the department.

You can see all the ways you can get involved and sign up on out Co-Production website.

In Hampshire County Council Adult services we want to make sure that people who use services are at the heart of what we do as a department. This means there are a lot of things going on to involve people who use services and carers in designing services and making plans and strategies for the future. There are all sorts of things that you can get involved in; surveys, questionnaires; focus groups; projects; conferences and more.

You might like to join the Personalisation Expert Panel. This is a service-user led group that meets with the departmental management team to guide the direction of the department.

You can see all the ways you can get involved and sign up on out Co-Production website.

Ofsted and CQC work together to look at the education, health and social care services for children with SEND in each local area. This is called an area SEND inspection. The views of children, young people and families are vital to these inspections and Ofsted will reach out via survey’s and might ask to meet some people when visiting your hospital, school or college.

Youth Voice in Hampshire