Getting to know your partners
- Do you want to know more about how partner organisations work?
- Or maybe you want to know more about the challenges partner organisations face and what opportunities they have that could support you?
- Have you ever wondered why partners make the decisions they do?
- Or do you want to understand how other organisations risk assess and manage that risk?
- How would you go about finding community and voluntary services that are available for the people you work with?
- If the answer is yes to any of the above questions, come along and join us for one of our Getting to know your Partners lunchtime sessions.
These sessions will include a Q&A and you can ask your colleagues anything to do with their organisations, services and daily practices, to help you gain a better understanding and promote an improved collaborative working approach.
Cost to participants: Free (However, if a delegate fails to attend a course that they have booked, or cancel with less than five working days’ notice, their organisation will be charged)
Book a session
Essex Family Forum
Wednesday 16th September 2026
12.30pm-1.30pm
Essex Family Forum is a passionate team of parents and carers of children and young people with SEND, working collaboratively with local authorities, health, social care and community partners to ensure the parent carer voice is central to service design, development and improvement.
This session will provide an insight into how the Essex Family Forum gathers and represents the views and experiences of families across Essex through surveys, engagement activities and partnerships with local support organisations, and how these views influence local, regional and national SEND policy and practice. Attendees will gain a greater understanding and the value of working alongside families to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND.
Book a place: Essex Family Forum
The Children and Young People with Disabilities Service: OT and Rehab Team
Thursday 22nd October 2026
12.30pm-1.30pm
The Children and Young People with Disabilities Service: OT and Rehab Team are a specialist team who work with Children and Young People with permanent, long term disabilities in their home environments to enable them to access essential facilities, where unable to do so as a result of environmental barriers. We provide advice and information, manual handling guidance, loan equipment and provide adaptations where it is considered necessary and appropriate to enable function within the home setting.
This session is designed to provide an overview of our service including eligibility for assessment and how to make appropriate referrals to the team
Book a place: OT & Rehab Team
Cancellation
These sessions are free to attend but you may be charged for cancellation. There is £10 for non-attendance.