Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum
Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum
admin@lincspcf.org.uk LPCF, PO Box 1183,
Spalding, PE11 9EE
Registered Charity No. 1141060 * ICO Registration Z1810966
PARTNERSHIPS FOR INCLUSION OF NEURODIVERSITY IN SCHOOLS (PINS)
Partners In Lincolnshire - ICB, LA, WTT & LPCF
What is PINS?
PINS WILL BRING HEALTH AND EDUCATION SPECIALISTS AND PARENT CARER FORUMS INTO MAINSTREAM PRIMARY SETTINGS TO:- Help shape whole school SEND provision.
- Provide early interventions at a whole school level.
- Upskill school staff.
- Support strengthening of partnerships between schools and parent carers, through the support of Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum.
The Working together Team and LPCF are committed to delivering the project in Lincolnshire.
Primary schools in Boston and South Holland have been invited to take part in the project, which will run until March 2025.
Parents at participating schools are encouraged to contact LPCF to find out more about how they can be involved.
Parents can see the slideshow from the PINS Introductory session for parent here
Contact the LPCF team Send email
List of Future LPCF Meetings with Parents - Face to Face (F2F) or Zoom (Virt)
Various Dates - For Parents - In Person
Various Dates - For Parents - Virtual
Various Dates -
School Staff Team - Virtual
List of School involved in PINS (Boston & South Holland)
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Boston Pioneers Free School Academy
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Boston St Mary's R C Primary School
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Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed Church of England Primary
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Deeping St Nicholas Primary School
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Fishtoft Academy
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Gedney Hill Church of England Primary School
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Gosberton Academy
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Gosberton Clough & Risegate County Primary School
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Hawthorn Tree School
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Holbeach Bank Primary School
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Holbeach Primary School
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Monkshouse Primary School
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Old Leake Primary & Nursery School
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Park Academy
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Pinchbeck East C of E Primary School
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Quadring Cowley & Browns Primary School
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Shepeau Stow Primary School
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South View Primary School
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Spalding Parish Church of England Day School
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Spalding Primary School
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Spalding St Paul's Primary School & Nursery
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St John the Baptist Primary School
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St Nicholas CE Primary Academy in Boston.
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St Thomas' Ce Primary School
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Staniland Academy
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Sutton St James Community Primary School
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The John Harrox Primary School
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Tydd St Mary C of E Primary School
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Weston Hills C Of E Primary School
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William Stukeley Church of England Primary School
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Wrangle Primary School
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Wyberton Primary School
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Wygate Park Academy
School websites and SEND page - a parents perspective
During PINS LPCF have explored with parents the information provided by schools on their websites and many parents indicated that they find the school SEND page can be useful but in some cases NOT.A key component they identified was that whilst some were OK and a parent can go to the school SEND page, they often have to go to several parts of the site to get key SEND information.
Taking this feedback LPCF wanted to investigate the variety of SEND pages schools have, and found them to be extremely variable.
To analyse the variations, LPCF identified what a parent might be able to reasonably expect from a school SEND page and came up with 12 measures.
8 of these were simple yes or no if the information is included on the Website (wherever that may be) and the other 4 measures were a more subjective measure about plain English language, ease of discovery, signposting to key agencies etc.
Each PINS settings website was checked and scored.
Notes about the location or difficulty of discovery or broken links etc. were all noted. Each setting has been invited to see the rational framework, their scores and the analysis notes.
Progressing through the analysis LPCF concluded that many websites did have key information, however it was often scattered over many pages making discovery difficult for parents.
LPCF are of the belief that if the information is accessible then why is it not all in one place on the SEND page as direct information or links to the information.
Meeting with some SENCo’s they felt that the premis was interesting and could see the logic of having a standardised structure for school SEND pages to adopt. Further work is may be undertaken to move this forward and a number of schools have already taken their results and made changes.
For participating schools, if you have not already done so, please feel free to contact LPCF for your feedback sheet.