What is the Local Offer?
The Local Offer provides information on what services children, young people and their families can expect from a range of local agencies, including education, health and social care as well as information about other local, support services. Knowing what is out there gives you more choice and therefore more control over what support is right for your child.
The Local Offer will set out what is available for your child in your area if they have special educational needs and or a disability.
The Local Offer will:
- Give you information about education and training, health and care services
- Give you information about leisure activities and support groups
- Hold all the information in one place
- Be clear, comprehensive and accessible
- Make service provision more responsive to local needs
- Be developed and reviewed with service providers and service users.
How will the Local Offer help me?
The Local Offer will:
- Make it easier to find out what you need to know
- Help you to find information when you need it and to be less dependent on other people to do this for you
- Help you to find the nearest and most suitable services
- Help you to ask the right questions
- Help you to provide feedback about what is needed, raise concerns or make a complaint
- Help us to get the services that are important to you available in Wirral
Read more
www.localofferwirral.org
