Welcome to the Parent Partnership Service

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The Parent Partnership Service aim to offer impartial information and support for parents and carers of children with Special Educational Needs.

We are a confidential service and we can:

  • Listen to parents concerns and queries.
  • Offer contact with other sources of help and information
  • Help in getting your views and the views of your child known, understood and valued.
  • Help you prepare and possibly go with you to meetings such as Annual Reviews.
  • Help with paperwork and help you to write reports or letters.
  • Help you to look at all the options.
  • We produce a newsletter three times a year.
  • Look at ways of overcoming difference.

Parent Partnership is available to all parents resident in Waltham Forest whose children have special educational needs. We aim to promote partnership between parents, the Local Authority (LA), schools, early years settings, health, social services and specialist children's services. Parents know their child better than anyone and have a key role to play in their child's education.

Getting in touch

Parents can contact the service themselves or professionals can suggest this to any parent with whom they have contact.

You can telephone, write or drop in, but make sure you telephone before you visit to make sure someone is in the office.

There is an answer phone so if we are out please leave a message. We do want to help you and we will call you back.

Contact us:

Parent Partnership Service
Queens Road Community Centre
215 Queens Road
Walthamstow E17 8PJ

Tel 020 8496 5230
Freephone 0800 587 2521
Email parent.partnership@walthamforest.gov.uk

Documents

Some of these documents are produced in PDF format. To view them you may need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

External links for help and advice

  • Advisory Centre For Education
    The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) is a national charity that provides advice and information to parents and carers on a wide range of school based issues including exclusion, admissions, special education needs, bullying and attendance.
  • Waltham Forest Parent Forum
    A friendly, voluntary group of parents and carers of disabled children and young people from 0-19 in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
  • Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST)
    Decide and hear parents' appeals against LA decisions on children's special educational needs.
  • Contact A Family
    Contact a Family provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children.