Support send kids
Founded by lawyers for SEND parents and professionals
to share knowledge and support
We bring together SEND families and SEND lawyers & professionals, to share knowledge, publicly, for the benefit of all.
Our Vision
Expand access to education for SEND children. Enable SEND families to engage with the education and legal EHCP system productively, without the need to fight their way through the process.
Our Mission
We harness the latest tech to empower SEND families by sharing SEND legal and professional knowledge. We help SEND parents understand the law, feel confident in requesting the help their child is entitled to and have support when they need to fight. SupportSENDkids lifts the load from parents, saving them anxiety, time and money.
how to help
DONATE: please support us on CrowdJustice or write to us and we will give you our bank details!
FUNDRAISE: Sponsor us. Donate. Invite us to speak at your diversity events.
OUR BACKERS: WCIT charity (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists) and the Philip King Trust
CONTRIBUTE: your knowledge to this platform: search and answer questions. Share your skills, money, time.
WHY IS THIS NEEDED?
The system that was set up to support and guide the educational needs of SEND children is broken. Although COVID made the situation worse, even outside of COVID, for decades this system was not fit for purpose. SEND families want to SELF-SERVE and the system makes this too hard.
"Navigating the SEND system should not be a bureaucratic nightmare, difficult to navigate and requiring significant levels of legal knowledge and personal resilience".
House of Commons Education Committee, October 2019
Read about our origin and what's next for Support SEND Kids: Empowering families to get the right educational support for children | Charities Management magazine | No. 145 Summer 2022 |
HOW and who WILL WE HELP?
We will put SEND families in the know:
- enable SEND families to self-serve information they need;
- use technology to bring transparency to and evidence the problem;
- blend the voices of the professionals, especially the lawyers and the experts-by-experience; and
- amplify, aggregate and escalate existing voices in this space
We have a 3 step plan:
STEP 1 - This platform
Search, ask and answer. Collating and curating free, dynamic, accessible, searchable data that can be contributed to by families and professionals. Providing a webinar and video content space to hold informative events and other easily accessible video content.
STEP 2 - Coming soon
Designing and digitalizing an improved EHCP process.
Free roadmap of the EHCP process.
STEP 3 - The vision
Creating lasting change.
Supporting activists, lawyers, policy makers and local authorities with data to effect change
Empowering SEND families to help themselves through data and transparency.
KEEP IN TOUCH
Get involved on socials
LinkedIn / Twitter / Instagram / Faceboook @supportsendkids #I_supportSENDkids
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Contact Us
meet the SSK team
Founders
Janvi Patel (Co-founder / CEO)
Rachel Amos (Co-founder / COO)
watch the founders explain their motivation Founder video
watch Denise explain our mission onstage at Legal Geek 2021
Trustees
Janvi Patel (Co-founder / CEO)
Rachel Amos (Co-founder / COO)
Team
Liz Chappell (Content and Community Manager)
Catie Sheret (Content and Community Manager)
Tamsin Ogilvie (UX strategy & design)
Robert Russell (Infostructure support)
OUR PARTNERS
Our financial funding currently comes from individuals supporting us through Go Fund Me, Crowd Justice and Just Giving and from grant making trusts.
Our legal community backing comes from a number of large law firms providing skills and expertise to us "pro-bono": Reed Smith, Sherman & Sterling.
Our charity pro-bono lawyers: Morgan Lewis
Our SEND lawyer support: David Wolfe QC, Leon Glenister, Shoosmiths, Boyes Turner
Our tech support is from our partners at SenateSense, Bryter Open and Kira Systems
Our PR support is pro-bono from Farrer Kane.
Our HR support is pro-bono from Shearman & Sterling
Our Accountants: All Square
Our Marketing: Spark Plug Marketing
If you want to support us pro-bono please email: contact@supportsendkids.org
Our RUles
Be polite. Be yourself but protect your and other people's personal data. Don't make it personal.
Be useful, be helpful, be accurate and be kind.
If you want to complain, please email support@supportsendkids.org
If you want to applaud, please share our links (above) with your community and please contribute.
Thank you.
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