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Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum

admin@lincspcf.org.uk Tel 07925 232466 LPCF, PO Box 1183, Spalding, PE11 9EE

Registered Charity No. 1141060 * ICO Registration Z1810966

Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum

Recognised and supported by the Department for Education (DfE) under the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice (2015)

LPCF is specifically tasked with working alongside the Local Authority and Health to help ensure that the services they plan, commission, deliver and monitor meet the needs of children with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs.

More About LPCF

The Charity

The Charity is an independent members organisation overseen by a members elected group of Trustees who are mostly parents and carers of children with disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs.

The Volunteer Trustees and Volunteers are responsible for communicating and supporting parent carers and professionals, to participate with strategic decision makers and represent the views of our large membership of parents and carers.

Membership

Our membership consists of Trustees, Volunteers and Members, although we also liaise with professionals.

We continue to enjoy a membership of nearly 2000 parent carers and additionally have a contact list for professionals of almost 1,000, all of whom we try to keep fully informed of our work and opportunities.

Who LPCF work with

Our main remit is to collect, collate and represent the views of parent carers from a variety of sources and use the information and ensure these are fed back to service providers with a view to improve the quality, range and accessibility of services . WE ARE THE PARENTS VOICE !!

Graphical representation of where LPCF sit between parents and service

We work with Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health (DoH), Lincolnshire County Council (LCC), National Health Service (NHS), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF) and others.

Volunteering

Aside from the voluntary work of the above Trustees, the Charity has an excellent team of several Volunteers who have a wide range of skills and who have worked tirelessly to support the Charity to achieve its goals and aims of serving parent carers on our membership.

Each year the volunteer Trustees and other Volunteers freely give around 3000 hours of their time and travel 15-20,000 miles to about 250-300 meeting for the benefit of our members.

See more detail in our Events Page

Coffee Meeting

Horncastle Area

Date - 09-07-2020 (10:30-12:00)
Venue - Costa Coffee 16-17, Market Pl, Horncastle LN9 5BN

Coffee Meeting

Boston Area

Date - 13-07-2020 (10:00-11:30)
Venue - The New England Hotel, Wide Bargate, Boston PE21 6SH

Coffee Meeting

Bourne Area

Date - 16-07-2020 (10:30-12:00)
Venue - The Nags Head, Bourne, PE10 9EF

Coffee Meeting

Sleaford Area

Date - 17-07-2020 (11:00-12:30)
Venue - Jolly Scotsman, 18 Lincoln Road, Holdingham, Sleaford. NG34 8NP

Coffee Meeting

Spalding Area

Date - 20-07-2020 (11:00-12:30)
Venue - South Holland Centre 23 Market Pl, Spalding PE11 1SS

Coronavirus Information

For Latest Information from LPCF please see our Information page>Documents Library>Covid19(Coronavirus) section or link

LPCF Survey 2020

IMPORTANT

Now extended to 30th April 2020
Your chance to have a BIG say on how well services are doing in Lincolnshire.
What's working well and what's not.

REMEMBER to tell you friends as this Survey helps make change.

Click the link NOW and complete (8-10 min)

Available to Parents and SENCos.

LCC Local Offer

Essential for ALL Parents

For a searchable listing of services in Lincolnshire use the Local Offer.

It lists all of the services for families of children with disabilities and Special Educational Needs.

Check it out

Excellence Awards

Made a Nomination NOW !

Do you know a person, school, organisation that has gone that extra mile for your child and family.

Make a nomination and get them recognised!

A little praise is always welcome.

Excellence Award

Who could you nominate ?

Our twice yearly awards are nominated by parents. Here they see excellent service for their child with SEND.

Nominations could include an organisation, staff member, volunteer, department.

You could even nominate a hairdresser or activity club.

If they have gone the extra mile for you let them know by nominating

Volunteer Recruitment

Be part of the TEAM

New volunteer Team members are always welcome.
To see if you can help yourself and others, please drop us a line, call us or speak to a team member. Link

We offer comprehensive induction and personal development so no experience in required.