ABERDARE : From SEN to ALN

From SEN to ALN – EVENT 1 of 14

• Are you a parent or carer wanting to know more about the new Additional Learning Needs (ALN) system in Wales?

• Would you like an opportunity to take your views and experiences of the new ALN system, directly to the Welsh Government?

• Would you like to meet and talk about your experiences of education with other parents and carers of children with ALN and disabilities

What this session will cover

• How do I know if my child has ALN?

• From SEN to ALN – what changes are happening?

• What does the law say?

• What are my rights?

• How can I challenge decisions or appeal?

• What does the Education Tribunal for Wales do?

• Where can I get free, accurate and impartial information?

• Fact checker – bring your experiences of the new ALN system, we will provide information and understanding.

• Meet other parents and carers and share your stories

• Access FREE, impartial information from the SNAP Cymru team

• Information and comments gathered from these sessions, will be taken directly back to the Welsh Government ALN team –choose whether you want to give your contact details or not.

About SNAP Cymru

SNAP Cymru are the leading disagreement resolution and advocacy service in Wales and have been for 37 years. SNAP Cymru has wealth of knowledge and experience. We hold the Legal Aid Agency’s Specialist Quality Mark for educational advice, Investing in Volunteers Quality Mark and were awarded The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award for Voluntary Service.

Most importantly, our service is impartial, confidential and entirely free – meaning that there are no barriers to accessing our service, particularly cost.

Additionally, we work to support parents, carers, children and young people to resolve disagreements at the earliest opportunity, reducing the need for costly legal action, stressful appeals to tribunal and escalation of complaints.

SNAP Cymru Services

Working throughout Wales from SNAP Cymru offices, drop in centres, surgeries and by providing families with home visits where necessary, we work holistically with families in an empowerment model, providing accurate information, objective advice and direct independent professional specialist casework, Avoidance of Disagreement, Disagreement Resolution, formal mediation, advocacy, support and training for a range of issues, including: discrimination, barriers to communication, exclusion from school.

We also help with complaints to School, FEI or LA. PSOW, Health and Social Care, Welsh Language Commissioner, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Administrative Court for judicial review.

Working with families and partner statutory and voluntary sector agencies in partnership, we develop and provide services designed to meet the needs of the ‘whole family’ with an emphasis on prevention and protection to reduce the need for remedial action.

Beneficiaries are Children and Young People, Families of Children and Young People who have or may have Additional Needs, Professionals working with Children and Young People.

SNAP Cymru is rooted in local communities across Wales, giving us extensive local knowledge of processes, trends and needs. SNAP Cymru’s flexible staff and volunteers are able and willing to work collaboratively and quickly to identify and respond to emerging needs and trends.

SNAP Cymru provides a range of services which specifically meet the requirements of the new ALN code. Chapter 6. Advice and information and Chapter 32. Avoiding and resolving disagreements and advocacy services:

How will you get this information to the Welsh Government ALN team?

Please note, we will not be recording this forum, but SNAP Cymru staff will be taking transcripts and records of chat, questions and notes of discussion, which will be anonymised and then shared directly with the Welsh Government ALN team to provide feedback directly from parents/carers, children and young people as to how the new ALN code is working. This will be done in a report format. You will also be provided with an email address for further comments and following the session you will be emailed a web form/feedback survey, which we would be most grateful if you could complete which will be included as part of our feedback.

Please do email us on the following email address with any queries or questions about this event

f[email protected]

Alternatively, please send us any feedback regarding the new ALN system you wish us to include in our report to the Welsh Government following these events.

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O AAA i ADY –

• Ydych chi’n rhiant neu’n ofalwr plentyn ag Anghenion dysgu ychwanegol a/neu anabledd sy’n byw yng Nghymru?

• Oes arnoch chi eisiau gwybod mwy am y system Anghenion Dysgu Ychwanegol (ADY) newydd yng Nghymru?

• Fyddech chi’n hoffi cael cyfle i rannu eich barn a’ch profiadau o weithredu’r system ADY newydd, gan wybod y bydd eich sylwadau’n cael eu hanfon yn syth at Lywodraeth Cymru?

• Fyddech chi’n hoffi cyfarfod pobl eraill sy’n rhieni a gofalwyr plant ag ADY ac anableddau, a siarad am eich profiadau o addysg?

Beth fydd yn cael ei drafod yn y sesiwn hwn

• Sut ydw i’n gwybod a oes gan fy mhlentyn ADY?

• O AAA i ADY – pa newidiadau sy’n digwydd mewn ysgolion yng Nghymru?

• Beth mae’r gyfraith yng Nghymru yn ei ddweud?

• Beth yw fy hawliau fel rhiant?

• Sut alla i herio penderfyniadau neu apêl?

• Beth mae Tribiwnlys Addysg Cymru yn ei wneud?

• Ble gallaf i gael gwybodaeth ddi-dâl, gywir a diduedd?

• Gwirio ffeithiau – dewch â’ch profiadau o’r system ADY newydd, fe wnawn ni ddarparu gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth.

• Cwrdd â rhieni a gofalwyr eraill a rhannu eich storïau

• Mynediad at wybodaeth ddiduedd AM DDIM gan dîm SNAP Cymru

• Bydd gwybodaeth a sylwadau a gesglir o’r sesiynau hyn yn cael eu hanfon yn ôl yn syth i dîm ADY Llywodraeth Cymru.

Am SNAP Cymru

SNAP Cymru yw’r prif ddarparwr gwasanaethau datrys anghydfod ac eiriolaeth yng Nghymru, ers 37 o flynyddoedd. Mae gan SNAP Cymru doreth o wybodaeth a phrofiad ac rydym wedi cael Marc Ansawdd Arbenigol yr Asiantaeth Cymorth Cyfreithiol am gyngor addysgol a Marc Ansawdd Buddsoddi mewn Gwirfoddolwyr. Yn ychwanegol at hyn dyfarnwyd Gwobr Jiwbilî Ddiemwnt y Frenhines i ni am Wasanaeth Gwirfoddol.

Yn bwysicach na dim, mae ein gwasanaeth yn ddiduedd, yn gyfrinachol ac yn gwbl ddi-dâl – sy’n golygu nad oes dim byd i’ch rhwystro rhag cael mynediad at ein gwasanaeth, yn enwedig cost.

Ar ben hyn, rydym yn gweithio i gefnogi rhieni, gofalwyr, plant a phobl ifanc i ddatrys anghytundebau cyn gynted ag y bo modd, gan leihau’r angen am achosion cyfreithiol costus, a’r straen o orfod apelio i dribiwnlys ac uwchgyfeirio cwynion.

Gwasanaethau SNAP Cymru

Rydym yn gweithio ledled Cymru o swyddfeydd SNAP Cymru, canolfannau galw heibio a chymorthfeydd, ac yn cynnig ymweliadau cartref i deuluoedd os oes angen. Mae ein gwaith gyda theuluoedd yn waith cyfannol sy’n seiliedig ar fodel grymuso. Rydym yn darparu gwybodaeth gywir, cyngor gwrthrychol a gwaith achos arbenigol, proffesiynol, annibynnol ac uniongyrchol. Mae ein gwaith yn ymwneud ag Osgoi Anghytundeb, Datrys Anghytundeb, cyfryngu ffurfiol, eiriolaeth, cefnogaeth a hyfforddiant ar faterion amrywiol, gan gynnwys: gwahaniaethu, rhwystrau sy’n atal cyfathrebu a gwahardd o ysgolion.

Rydym hefyd yn helpu â chwynion i Ysgolion, Sefydliadau Addysg Bellach neu Awdurdodau Lleol, Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru, Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol, Comisiynydd y Gymraeg, Comisiynydd Plant Cymru a’r Llys Gweinyddol ar gyfer adolygiadau barnwrol.

Drwy weithio gyda theuluoedd ac mewn partneriaeth â chyrff statudol ac asiantaethau’r sector gwirfoddol, rydym yn datblygu ac yn darparu gwasanaethau sydd wedi’u cynllunio i ddiwallu anghenion y ‘teulu cyfan’ â phwyslais ar atal ac amddiffyn i leihau’r angen am gamau adfer.

Y rhai sy’n elwa o hyn yw Plant a Phobl Ifanc, Teuluoedd Plant a Phobl Ifanc sydd ag Anghenion Ychwanegol, neu a allai fod ag anghenion o’r fath, a Gweithwyr Proffesiynol sy’n gweithio gyda Phlant a Phobl Ifanc.

Mae SNAP Cymru yn gweithio mewn cymunedau lleol ledled Cymru, ac mae hyn yn rhoi gwybodaeth leol helaeth i ni am brosesau, tueddiadau ac anghenion. Mae staff a gwirfoddolwyr hyblyg SNAP Cymru yn gallu cydweithio’n gyflym, ac maent yn barod i wneud hynny er mwyn canfod ac ymateb i anghenion a thueddiadau sy’n dod i’r amlwg.

Mae SNAP Cymru yn darparu nifer o wasanaethau amrywiol sy’n bodloni gofynion y cod ADY newydd, yn fwyaf arbennig Pennod 6, Cyngor a gwybodaeth a Phennod 32, Osgoi a datrys anghytundebau a gwasanaethau eirioli.

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