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Parent Carer Involvement Board

  Page last updated: 09/03/2010

What is the Parent Carer Involvement Board?

The Hertfordshire Parent Carer Involvement Board is a group of 12 volunteer parent/carers.
 

Parent Carer Involvement Board

This Board meets on a regular basis to work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies to improve services for children with a disability in Hertfordshire.
 
They are working to ensure that the voices of their parents and families are heard and that they are able to work in partnership with all agencies to shape policy and influence change.

The Board want to:

  • Improve services for children with disabilities and their families

  • Work with statutory agencies to ensure the involvement of families and young people is effective in shaping policies, commissioning and in decision making.

  • Champion the inclusion of children with disabilities and their families in society.

  • Improve choice and control for children with disabilities and their families.

For more information about the Parent Carer Involvement Board and its members, please click here.

Parent Carer Involvement Board: Minutes of Meetings:

Summary of a Case Study of Overnight Respite

The Aiming High Project team are trying to ascertain the true demand and unpick sticking points for access to overnight short breaks. A statistical report carried out last year for Children Schools and Families indicates that some respite centres are under used however parents have raised concerns about access to respite and that some families are not offered this service even if their children meet the necessary criteria and that families already using this service, do not appear to be being offered additional nights.

The Board are also concerned that not all families of disabled children in the County know about the respite services that they are entitled to. Even some of them who are aware, are being turned down for the assessment process or are being turned down at the Panel Meeting.

To help improve understanding of the reasons for this discrepancy, members of the Board undertook a survey of 12 families who had been refused access to overnight respite or additional nights in the past year on behalf of the Aiming High project Team.

The results of the survey have been sent to the Aiming High Team who have already acknowledged that the initial problem of getting to speak to the appropriate person when going through the call centre is an issue and should be addressed.

We now await their response to the other issues raised in the letter. (January 2010)

 
 
 


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