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Appendix C

Children and Young People involved in the Local Offer focus
development and review workshops and the new and improved
accessible Local Offer website meetings.

Local Offer development and review focus groups with children and young people

took place at Special Inclusion Project, in the form of workshops across the Bradford
District from June 2018 – May 2019.

The sessions involved children and young people reviewing the Local Offer website
in detail and the alternative formats (Local Offer pocket booklets and leaflets) in
workshop style with young people workers from the Special Inclusion Project
Service. Information was given to the children and young people about what the
Local Offer was for, what feedback we would like, and how their valuable feedback
would improve the Local Offer. Feedback from children and young people was given
verbally/pictorially, within the workshops with support from the SIP young people’s
workers.

The participation characteristics table below shows Children and Young People
(CYP) with SEND across the Bradford District, who have provided Local Offer
feedback at Local Offer review workshops carried out by the Special Inclusion
Project, the new local offer website review groups, and the takeover challenge
carried out by the Local Offer Team. SIP and The Local Offer Team consulted with
young people with a range of primary needs Including Autism, Learning Difficulties,
Cerebral Palsy, Hearing Impairments, Visual Impairments, Down syndrome and
Physical Disabilities.

CYP Participation Characteristics table:

Provision/venue name Age Additional Needs Total
group Undisclosed
Stay and Play (Phoenix Specialist 5-13yrs 12
School)
Mind The Gap 8-19yrs Diagnosed Disability 16
Youth Service Session - LS29 9-25yrs Diagnosed Disability 22
Youth Service Session - BD21 9-25yrs Diagnosed Disability 18
SIP Parental Support Visits for CYP Mixed Diagnosed Disability 9
Sports Works (Grant) 8-18yrs Diagnosed Disability 21
SIP Musical Theatre 8-18yrs Diagnosed Disability 6
Local Offer Service-Young Person 19yrs Undisclosed 1
Takeover the Service Challenge
Online Local Offer Survey Feedback -- 0
Bradford LO New Website review 19-21yrs Diagnosed Disability 2
group- for key stakeholders at Carlisle
Business Centre.

Total number of children and young people consulted via Local Offer review
workshops: 107

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Appendix D

Parent/carers and SEND Service Providers involved in the Local
Offer focus development and review and the new and improved
accessible Local Offer website.

In the “You said” and “We did” section of this annual report there is useful and
valuable feedback about the Local Offer. Whilst some liked how the original website
looked with many other positive comments, feedback also made it clear that it was
difficult to find specific information without the use of search categories and filters.
The original Bradford Council Local Offer website was further developed within the
council’s IT Services but still did not meet user’s needs. The existing Local Offer
website platform the site was built on was limited and proved difficult to develop and
the site would have had to be re-built to meet user’s needs. Therefore, as a result of
the councils agreed specification and tender process a contract was awarded to a
new IT supplier called 6B Digital to re-build the Local Offer website to meet user’s
needs by improving accessibility and providing a clear navigation route for
information.

Local Offer development and review focus groups with parent/carers and service
providers took place at Carlisle Business Centre, which focused on the new and
improved Local Offer Website. 22 parent/carers and service providers attended, who
had children and young people with SEND aged between 7-25yrs with a range of
additional needs including; Autism, Mild Learning Difficulties, ADHD, Speech,
Language and Communication Needs, Physical Disabilities, Visual Impairment, and
Behavioural Social and Emotional Difficulties and 2 young adults with Autism,
learning and physical difficulties.

The Local Offer invited and involved young people with SEND, parents/carers and
service providers to develop and review the Local Offer and the new website using
the key stakeholder feedback. Young people, parent/carers and service providers
involved in the new website co-production review group, were given information
about why a new and improved website was required and why a new website
company had been commissioned to improve the sites accessibility. They were
shown the new website, the navigation routes, accessibility, search and filter
functions, and how existing and new services/providers could securely log in to
update their own information to be published (once approved by the Local offer). Key
stakeholders had the opportunity to say what they liked and what they would like to
change. Further website review meetings took place to look at the live test version.

More information can be found about the new website review meetings and the
awarded contract to 6B Digital on the Local Offer website news.

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Appendix E

Bus routes advertising the Bradford Council SEND Local Offer Service
Map displaying the 40 bus routes where the Local Offer Service has been advertised
from May-June 2019. The advert was placed on the back of local Bradford District
buses. In addition we have 36 council site street signs with the advert displayed-
May-June 2019.

The wording in this publication can be made available in other
formats such as large print and Braille. Please call 01274
433582

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