What is the Barnet Local Offer?

The Local Offer is a website that brings together information about support and services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and their families and carers.

It helps you understand what support is available across education, health, and social care and in the Barnet community—all in one place.

 

Who is it for?

  • Parents and carers
  • Children and young people
with SEND (0–25)
  • Professionals supporting children, young people with SEND, and their families

 

What can you find?

  • Services, support, and advice in your local area
  • Information about education, schools, and colleges
  • Health services and wellbeing support
  • Social care support and family services
  • Local activities, groups and upcoming events
  • Support for moving into adulthood
  • Signposting to helpful organisations

You can explore the different zones or you can use the search feature to look for specific information.

 

Why do we have a Local Offer?

In September 2014, the laws and requirements for services that support children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND) changed.

You can find out more about who is required to do what in:

The five main changes brought about by the SEND reforms are:

  • Families and young people must be at the heart of the process
  • Education, health and social care must work together
  • Services must be available from ages 0-25 - where appropriate
  • Personal Budgets – to offer choice and control
  • Local Offers – relevant information in one place

The Local Offer can help you find the right support, when you need it.

 

Local Offer – who can help

If you have questions or need help understanding how to use the Local Offer or someone to do the searching for you, you talk to the SENCo at your child’s school, or email us at [email protected].

Barnet SENDIASS (SEND Information, Advice and Support Service) can also help guide parents and young people through the local offer.

To find out how Barnet has developed its Local Offer and involved parents so far, take a look at our ‘You Said, We Did’ pages.

Click here to see our Jargon Buster page for explanations of acronyms and other jargon around SEND

 

Accessibility compliance: 

Accessible websites work better for everyone.  We are currently undertaking some work to review the content and design of our Local Offer making sure it is clear and simple enough so that it can be used by as many people as possible.

 

Neighbouring Local Offers

You can see neighbouring boroughs’ Local Offer websites by clicking on the links below: