We have been contacted by a number of families who have been through reviews of their relative’s support packages and have had their budgets cut.

If this has happened to you please get in touch with OxFSN and tell us what happened. We are trying to compile evidence so we can get a clearer picture of what is happening and if necessary challenge.

If you have recently had a review for your relative or have one booked in the coming months, please could you get in touch with OxFSN so we can advise.

Follow this link to read more: Personal budget cuts – Call for Evidence

Press Release for Relaunch

26 October 2018 Press release

The new Parent Carer forum for Oxfordshire will be launching on 8 November at the OXFSN ‘Better Together Event’.

The forum has been set up by a group of parents with children who have special education needs (SEN) to work with Oxfordshire County Council and the local NHS to help improve services for children with SEN.

As members of the National Network of Parent Carer Forum’s we will support the development of parent carer participation, a process in which parents work together with professionals to make improvements to local services.

We believe that ‘Every Child Matters’ and that all disabled children and young people in Oxfordshire, should have access to the same opportunities, experiences and information , as any other child.

Julia Stackhouse, Co-Chair of the Oxfordshire parent carer forum said ‘Our Vision is to be a well informed, connected and empowered community of families of children with disabilities or additional needs. We want to build links with as many informal and formal groups both those of parents and professionals so that we can work in partnership with health, education and social care to create quality services that meet the needs of all parent carers and their children/young people’.

Stephanie Harrison, Co-Chair of the Oxfordshire parent carer forum added ‘If anyone has parental responsibility for a child or young person with additional needs or a disability, who is aged between birth and 25 years old and lives in Oxfordshire, please join us and share your experiences so that we can strive to improve services in Oxfordshire’.

The forum and its representative will aim to provide reasoned feedback and support to professionals and ensure young people and their families are listened to. End.

Notes to editors:For further information about the forum, please contact:

Tel: 07394 735666

Email: info@oxpcf.org.uk

Web: www.oxpcf.org.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oxpcf/

Twitter: @OxPCForum

Instagram: ox_parentcarers_forum

Address: c/o OXFSN Slade House, Horspath Driftway, HEADINGTON, Oxford OX3 7JH

• National network of parent carer forums: http://www.nnpcf.org.uk/ The National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF) is the independent national voice of parent carer forums.
• In partnership with OXFSN https://www.oxfsn.org.uk/ Oxfordshire Family Support Network (OxFSN) is a not-for-profit organisation run by and for family carers of people with learning disabilities – both children and adults.