Testimonial Submissions

It is great to continue to reflect on our training using feedback from parents and carers, so thank you for sharing this Transitions report with us. It is good to see that in general feedback was very positive and that the workshop continues to be supportive for many parents.

I have enjoyed working alongside you and LPCF. I know that Jenny and Helena will continue that partnership, supporting the invaluable work that you do and the service you provide across the county.

It is so valuable to work in partnership with Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum, we are very grateful for your efforts to actively promote the work of the Lincolnshire Carers Service, always ensuring factual information is shared.
We read your findings from your surveys and have a clear understanding of the priorities of parent carers.
We can refer parent carers to the LPCF website which has so much useful and up to date information on from a broad range of partners.

We would like to further this though and wondered if the parent carer forum would like to become a member of the Carers Steering Group?

Invitation kindly accepted.

As we have progressed through another busy year, Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum continues to be one of our key partners for coproduction, collaborative working, developments, and planning throughout Inclusion.
Their continued involvement across a range of aspects ensures that parent/carers voices are not only heard and listened to, but acted upon and central to decision making.

LPCF’s honest and open working relationship ensures mutual respect remains at the forefront, enabling Lincolnshire as a local area to continue moving forward with developments that are meaningful for parent/carers, and children and young people.

Lincolnshire’s Ofsted and CQC SEND Local Area Inspection, Lincolnshire’s Better Belonging: Inclusion Strategy and Better Belonging: Sufficiency Strategy, and the ongoing development of Hub provision, are just a very small number of aspects that have benefited from this embedded approach in Lincolnshire. As the SEND Reforms are being announced and starting to progress, this relationship has never been more highly valued. Thank you, LPCF, for your continued partnership, which continues to be very much appreciated.”

It is always a pleasure to work with Coralie and the Lincolnshire PCF. Communication and planning is always fantastic.
It is great to see the number of parents that attend and the sessions are always engaging. It is clear from running the sessions how valuable Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum is for the parents that join and attend the events. The sessions have been a place where parent and carers can come together, learn and realise that they are not alone.

Coralie and team are always so welcoming and caring and I can see that it is such a safe place for those that attend. Their hard work and dedication to the parents they support is always clear to see. We have been a part of the Week of SEND event and it is extremely impressive not only seeing the time and effort that must have gone in to preparing and running the event, but also the amount of information available for those that attend.
Thank you for involving us in such inspiring events.

Working in partnership with Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum is invaluable in strengthening how health services are shaped, challenged and assured at a system level- for Children and Young People with SEND in Lincolnshire.
Through ongoing dialogue, meaningful co production and constructive challenge, LPCF acts as a trusted critical friend, supporting better strategic decision making and accountability. This partnership helps ensure that service development and improvement activity remains firmly grounded in lived experience, contributing to more responsive, transparent and sustainable outcomes for children, young people and their families.

I just want to say a massive thank you to you for your time and efforts at the Business Support Away Day last week. In total we had 24 representatives from our partner services and agencies working within and alongside the Family Hubs.

The whole team really valued your time sharing your knowledge and expertise, offering advice and information on your service and importantly, how we connect Lincolnshire Families to this support.

This collaborative way of working is key to us all coming together to effectively support our Lincolnshire Families and offer support in achieving better outcomes for our Lincolnshire Children.

Again, thank you all for your support with this event and I look forward to us working together in the new year.

I wanted to say a massive thank you to you and all your volunteers for doing interviews with our students. It was great for me to see how all the students switched into being professional, and it sounded like really good conversations were going on. After the session, several of the students were incredibly indignant on your behalf, asking me how they could change the system to help support your carers and their loved ones better so it obviously inspired them.

I particularly want to thank your volunteer with lived expereience herself, who was incredibly kind and spoke to 2 different groups.

Thanks for getting in touch
I do appreciate you looking into the difficulties I found accessing your website.
I use your site so often to support parents that I needed it!
Keep up the fab work you do.

Thank you for your email about the Week of SEND, I can hear the disappointment within it.

I am sad to hear that this will not be going ahead. I am relatively new to present at the SEND week, but I have found it to be a valuable opportunity to get to know other services in Lincolnshire.
It’s such a shame you have not had the uptake from parents.

So sorry to read the news that you are not holding the Week of SEND this year. Such a difficult decision for you all to make and such a shame regards the decline in parent participation as all of those speakers sharing all of that valued information such a wasted opportunity for families who would have benefited if had attended.

You do such amazing work.

Dear LPCF
Just wanted to say thank you for all your support to children and their families, as well as all your valuable input to LCC, the PCF do an invaluable job.
I retire tomorrow and the new TM for CWD will assist if needed.

I just wanted to pass on my thanks to John Chambers who came and supported our SEND parent coffee morning yesterday; we really appreciate this and our parents really valued the information and support he provided.

Please can you let him know how much we appreciate his support and indeed the wider LPCF.