Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum
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2025
Workshop on Toilet Skills
with the LCC Continence Service
23rd April 2025
LPCF invited the LCC Continence Service to present a workshop around toilet skills to help parents and professionals address the issues around this often sensitive topic.
One parent commented " It was an amazing workshop. The woman who gave information in the workshop was great and answered any questions given! I would highly recommend.
Another parent commented "Very interesting and useful session, lots of tips for me to take away and put into practice. Lots of time given at the end to ask questions and receive answers.
A big thank you to Amy for presenting this informative and helpful workshop.
LPCFs Week of SEND 2025
Monday 27th January to Friday 31st January 2025
A successful fifth virtual "Week of SEND" was held in January.
The aim of the yearly event is to provide as much information as possible on as many subjects as possible and to give organisations the chance to showcase the enormous amount of support available in Lincolnshire.
The sessions were held throughout the day, during the evening and at the weekend to ensure that as much flexibility for attendance was given to parents and professionals.
There were 15 sessions in total, including 70, 10 minute presentations from a diverse range of organisations showcasing their offers of support over the week.
The accessible Zoom platform was utilised so participants could access sessions from the comfort of their own home.
One participant commented "Hope it is going well. It really is a great opportunity for parents and carers to find out more about the various
support that's available across Lincolnshire for CYP & adults with SEND."
Participants were asked to complete an evaluation to provide feedback to LPCF about the event, which has been collated in the report herewith for your information.
Any resources, presentations or publicity flyers were uploaded onto the parental resources page of the LPCF website.
LPCF would like to thank the parents and professionals who attended throughout the week and everyone who was involved in making the event a success. We couldn't have done it without you.
LPCF Excellence Award Winners
July to Dec 24
Congratulations to Marie Tiwari, SENCo, who was awarded first place in the LPCF Excellence awards.
Laura Leighton, OT was awarded second place and Kayley from Bearhugs Nursery was awarded third place.
A special excellence award for Bebright Pre School for being nominated by 4 parents in the six month award period was also presented.
The awards are voted on by the Trustees and volunteers of LPCF every 6 months.
Well done to all nominations for going above and beyond for families of children with SEND. For full details of all the listings click on the blue link to see the July - Dec nominations.
The Role of Liaise and the Graduated Approach (SEN Support)
with Liaise
30th January 2025
As part of the LPCF “Week of SEND” LPCF invited Liaise to talk about The Role of Liaise and the Graduated Approach(SEN Support).
Liaise were invited as they are the information,advice and support services for Lincolnshire for families of children with SEND and trained to help parents navigate SEND law.
This virtual workshop gave an introduction to Liaise, the law and the
2015 SEND Code of Practice, information about the SEND funding schools receive and highlighted the importance of early Identification of SEND.
25 parents & professionals booked themselves onto the session, with 15 attending.
4 people gave their apologies before the event started.
One parent commented "I didn’t know about Liaise and the support they offered and it’s good they help with young people up until 25. Independence from the local council is good.
Another parent commented "I have armed myself with all the advice and feel more able to support my child’s learning or at least know where to go for more advice.
Promoting Positive Behaviour
with Aspens
30th January 2025
As part of the LPCF “Week of SEND” LPCF invited Chris from Aspens to talk about Promoting Positive Behaviour. This virtual workshop explored:-
· What are behaviours of concern.
· The types of behaviours that may be displayed (such as verbal and physical aggression, breaking objects, escape and avoidance and self-neglect).
· What happens physically to a child when displaying these behaviours.
· How to establish what the behaviour may be telling us.
· Why they may happen.
· How to put a plan into place, as well as some strategies that may help reduce such behaviours and promote positive ones.
38 parents & professionals booked themselves onto the session, with 23 attending.
7 people gave their apologies before the session started
One parent commented "I have learnt lots of useful information in last nights zoom session ‘promoting positive behaviour’
I found particularly helpful the different strategies that I can use to help my daughter calm quicker and prevent / pre plan for to help the reduction in negative behaviours. It was also very interesting to lean about the fight flight freeze and how it works in relation to the build in behaviours.
I found this particularly helpful. I will also be purchasing some emotion cards for my daughter and better explain the different feelings we might have with her and how she can let people know around her how she’s feeling in a safe way."
Another parent commented "Thank you so much,found the session really useful and already I feel as though I have more understanding to deal with certain situations, it's given me a lot to think about. The 'assault cycle' was interesting as well as talking about pro active strategies."
One professional commented "As a professional I found the session very interesting and will certainly signpost more of my parents to join the group.
The links to resources was very useful and will be used in my sessions with parents."
Anxiety
with LPFT
29th January 2025
As part of the LPCF “Week of SEND” LPCF invited LPFT to talk about Anxiety.
This virtual workshop explored supporting children and young people with their worries.
There was a whistle stop tour of how anxiety may present in children and some helpful hints and tips on how parents and carers can support the child/young persons toolkit for managing those big feelings
48 parents & professionals booked themselves onto the session, with 29 attending.
1 person gave their apologies before the event started.
One parent commented "Interesting to read the comments from other parents and carers and see the strategies that they have used with their child.
Obviously, not all will work with my child but it's worth trying some of them".
Another parent commented "This was the best LPCF session I have attended, all credit to the speakers. Thank you"
One professional commented "I found it useful to learn about the different ways anxiety can look in children. Being a SENCo in an early years setting I come across a wide variety of different children.
I liked hearing about the different approaches in supporting the children and I appreciated that others on the course sharing their own personal experiences and what works for them as I have minimal experience in supporting children with anxiety myself".
Transformation in SEND
with LCC SEND Team
29th January 2025
As part of the LPCF “Week of SEND” LPCF invited the LCC SEND Team to talk about the Transformation in SEND.
LCC were invited to discuss the exciting initiatives being developed which included:
Discover the achievements so far and delve into exciting plans for the next phase.
47 parents & professionals booked themselves onto the session, with 25 attending.
10 people gave their apologies before the event started.
One parent commented "A really helpful session and it was good to hear about the changes happening to try and provide better provision for our children.
Another parent commented "Many new initiatives being explored by LCC which is exciting and very creative.
Lots of investment too at a time when other authorities are going bankrupt".
Please see the report published on the library page of the website
Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum
Find out what we do
28th January 2025
As part of the LPCF “Week of SEND” LPCF gave parents and professionals the opportunityto find out more about LPCF.
By attending the workshop, attendees gained an insight into the role and remit of LPCF,found out about how LPCF gather the views of the membership and the ways in which they use them to inform practice.
Attendees were also given guidance on what signposting and support LPCF could offer and information about what LPCF were not able to support with.
One parent commented "Learnt everything about what LPCF is about and has to offer and that it is a central hub that is in harmony with organisations which takes information from parents and helps fills the gaps of what services are missing.
Another parent commented "So pleased that this was raised to my attention and I now know this whole new world that is available to me. I was not aware of at all. The hosts were lovely".
Please see the report published on the library page of the website
Workshop on Working with schools to support your child
with the Specialist Teaching team, Inclusion Team & Dyslexia Outreach
27th January 2025
As part of the LPCF "Week of SEND" LPCF invited the Specialist Teaching Team, Inclusion Team & Dyslexia Outreach to present a workshop around working with schools to support your child's learning.
This workshop was designed with STT as a result of feedback from the recent Pins project.
By attending this workshop, parents gained the confidence to support their child's learning journey effectively and also gave them the opportunity to ask the experienced team any questions they had.
One parent commented " I have definitely learned that cooperation with the school is very important, that we should really support our children at home. These workshops showed me what to pay attention to, where I can turn for help. The workshops showed me that I shouldn't be afraid to ask questions, especially when I don't understand something. I should definitely prepare for meetings, write down the questions that we want to ask, e.g. Senco. I learned a lot from this and I thank you for your help.
Another parent commented "I have learnt more about the importance of a positive school/ parent partnership and the support available for parents during transitions and the provision of access arrangements.".
Please see the report published on the library page of the website
LPCF Parents' Voice
October to December 24
Our extensive quarterly round up of what parents have been saying about Health, Education, Transport, EHC Plans, Leisure, Social Care etc.In this edition of parents' feedback we have changed the format slightly with sections for Education , Health & Social Care separated to hopefully make it easier to read.
A section at the beginning of the report has been dedicated to professionals who have kindly commented on your views directed to them, in the previous edition of the parents' voice.
In this edition we have lots of comments on the following:-
We have again used our "Feedback Friday" polls to gather more information from our closed parents only Facebook page. This simple polling system means that more people can give us their feedback.
We also have selected a few comments from our latest workshops.
The October to December report can be found here.
For other Parents Voice reports please have a look in our extensive library or check back through our Achievements pages or our library page.