Slough Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Local Offer

Slough SEND Local Offer website provides information on SEND services for :

• children and young people 
• families.

It gives information and advice about:

• education
• health
• social care
• other services

that are available in Slough, neighbouring areas and nationally. 

The Local Offer has been developed with:

• parents, carers, children, young people and
• other services such as schools, health and local agencies

It will continue to grow and develop to include changes to services or new services.

If you do not have access to internet, you can find the Local Offer information in other ways.

You can:

• call Slough Family Information Service on 01753 476589.
• access the Local Offer online at your local library.  

Information on the Local Offer is updated regularly. Please give us your feedback to help us develop and improve Slough's Local Offer. 

You can:

• use the smiley faces on the page to share your feedback online
• email FIS@slough.gov.uk 
• call 01753 476589.

Professionals can check the Local Offer to find out about:

• services and
• provision

in Slough.

The Local Offer has sections to help you to find what you’re looking for. 

You can:

• check the section you are want
• enter a word that relates to what you are looking for in the 'Keywords' box at the top of the page.
• add a postcode or place name in the 'Location' box for services near that postcode/location. You can sort the results by distance from the postcode.
• use the filters, such as age, postcode or type of need, on the left hand side to narrow down your search results.

Services with Local Offer information have the SEND symbol. You will find this in the top right hand corner of the record.

The Local Offer has the:

• Google Translator to translate the webpage to different languages 
• ReachDeck toolbar to translate (if required) and read aloud the webpage. 

If you need further help, please contact Slough Family Information Service.

You can:

• call 01753 476589 
• email FIS@slough.gov.uk
• use the smiley faces on the page to share your feedback.

If there isn’t a local service that meets your needs, there maybe a:

• service in a neighbouring area that you can use or
• national organisation that can help.

Part of the purpose of the Local Offer is to identify services needed in the area.

We will use the information you provide to help us:

• plan
• check
• develop

facilities and services for children and young people with SEND and their families.

Following the Ofsted report on 17 November 2021:

• Slough Borough Council
• Frimley CCG
• Slough Children First

have renewed their commitment to children with SEND.

The report:

• is highly critical of some of the SEND services in Slough.
• said that an official Written Statement of Action (WSOA) is required.

This is following an inspection earlier this year.

Some of the main criticisms include:

• lack of joined-up working between the organisations
• lack of working together with parents and families of SEND children
• parents and carers not feeling understood, welcomed or helped
• some schools not welcoming SEND children
• high staff turnover
• social care needs are not met
• long waiting times for an occupational therapist
• long waiting times to get an educational health and care plan (EHCP).

However, other areas received praise including:

• SEND services in Early Years
• the mental health transformation programme
• the support received from the SEND Information Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS)
• the ‘valiant efforts’ of individual members of staff.

Check OFSTED Local Area SEND Inspection.

Following the Ofsted local area inspection the:

• Local Authority and
• CCG

were instructed to write a Written Statement Of Action (WSOA) to address areas of weakness.

• Check the WSOA for SEND on Slough Borough Council website.