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We have finalised our logo for the York SEND Youth Forum! We hope you like it!

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New name for SEND Employment and Opportunities Brokers Team

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New name for SEND Employment and Opportunities Brokers Team

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Holly from Children's and Families Services has asked for our input for helping devise a new name for the SEND Employment and Opportunities Brokers team - this team helps individuals, taking the time to understand their specific barriers to employment, their aspirations, and then providing tailored support to help them progress towards achieving positive outcomes. Do you have any ideas that could help with naming this new service? Email jointpartnership@york.gov.uk or reply here! ↓

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The York SEND Youth Forum has recently been established to help children and young people with SEND in York to share their views, support decision making and policies, and work together on projects to make improvements for local services.

Anyone who lives in York, is aged 7-25 and has SEND is welcome to take part.

We currently meet fortnightly during term time. Please contact jointpartnership@york.gov.uk for more information about upcoming meetings and how to get involved.

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SEND Youth Forum logo designs - initial ideas

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SEND Youth Forum logo designs - initial ideas

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Here are some of the initial logo designs shared with us, let us know what you think of them!

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If you would like the SEND Youth Forum to share their views on a particular project, please complete this involvement request form and return it to jointpartnership@york.gov.uk and it will be considered at a future forum meeting.

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These are our group's rules and responsibilities, and how we structure our meetings and project work. Please contact jointpartnership@york.gov.uk if you would like these shared with you in an alternative format.

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The Yorkshire and Humber SEND Youth Alliance would like to hear our views for the SEND and AP Change Programme. You can learn more about this by watching the video, and we will discuss this at our next meeting.

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The SEND and AP Change Programme Explained

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At a recent meeting, members of the SEND Youth Forum met with representatives from the City of York Safeguarding Children's Partnership (CYSCP). We discussed what it's like to grow up in York, what helps us keep safe, and shared some ideas to help the CYSCP develop a new logo for their website.

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We are currently finalising our Terms of Reference. These are the group's rules and responsibilities, and help structure how we run our meetings and project work. They will be posted here when they are ready.

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A local artist is supporting us with turning our ideas into a new logo for our forum, it will be posted here soon!

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Welcome to York SEND Local offer - York SEND Local Offer

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SEND CENTRAL

SEND CENTRAL has just launched! This is a physical hub in Clifton, which specialises in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. This is a place where families can seek advice and information.
Find out more about SEND CENTRAL

SEND CENTRAL

SEND CENTRAL is York's Family Hub that specialises in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). This is a hub that families can seek advice and information about what's available in York when they have children and young people who have additional needs, any age from 0 to 25.

SEND CENTRAL provides an essential breathing space for children, young people, and their families. A warm, welcoming, and supportive environment where families can go for information, advice, and support on all aspects of SEND and where they can find out more about the Local Offer in York.

This is a place where families can meet multiple professionals and agencies all under one roof, meet other parents and carers of children and young people with SEND and where they and their child can access a range of information about events and activities.

SEND CENTRAL is an inclusive hub with no specific threshold or level of need required for you to access. If you're looking for some advice, information and don't know where to turn, pop along between 9.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday and chat to one of our friendly navigators who are people with lived experience of SEND and are employed by the Parent Carer Forum.

If you're unable to physically come to the hub you can email: [email protected] or telephone: 01904 555076 and a navigator will call you back. If you want to let us know that you're going to be coming and there's anything we can do to make your communication with the navigator more accessible, we would love to hear from you and can arrange to make sure we have the right communication support for your visit or call with SEND CENTRAL.
Complete the SEND CENTRAL questionnaire when you visit our hub
SEND CENTRAL launch

The new hub for children and young people with SEND and their families in York is now open. We launched on Saturday 20 September 2025.

Watch the new video from launch day.

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special educational needs and disabilities

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SEND CENTRAL is York's Family Hub that specialises in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. This is a hub that families can seek advice and information about what's available in York.

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The Raise York website is designed to support parents, carers, children, young people and anyone who works with children, young people and families.

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There are lots of people whose job is to make sure that children and young people in York are safe; we make sure that all these people work together.

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The Talk2Me campaign is all about encouraging adults to talk to young people about their communication preferences, whether that is to talk directly to them, through their trusted adult or in a completely different way.

This project stemmed from young people wanting adults to not make assumptions about their communication abilities based on their disability.

The Access4All young people’s group (now merging to become our new York SEND Youth Forum), made up of a range of young people from across secondary schools in York, have designed this campaign from start to finish and would like to share these key messages with you:

understand young people's communication preferences

know that young people can speak for themselves if they wish to

remember, everyone’s different, but I’m my own expert so please talk to me

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Talk2Me - communication with young people - York SEND Local Offer

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The Talk2Me campaign is all about encouraging adults to talk to young people about their communication preferences, whether that is to talk directly to them, through their trusted adult or in a completely different way.