Parent Partnership

[debs40]

Has anyone ever taken a PP rep to school for a meeting?

How did it go down?

I was a volunteer for parent partnership. I trained because they had supported me when ds was in reception and the head tried to push him out of school.

Parent Partnership managers trained all volunteers in all areas of the code of practice additional training was provided on top of the 12 weeks on exclusions. In my own LEA line management the senior parent partnership manager is not managed by the LEA but childrens service manager in social services.

I have friends in other authorities who also volunteer for parent parentship who didn't get the level of training that my authority gives.

My ds is now in SEN school and happy qnd I am now able to work part time in paid work.

tibni - thanks for posting. I got the feeling that PP person I spoke to was very effective and I was worried about upsetting school!

Not worried now though! If you see my other post about 'school meeting' you will see how things are going.

I think I definitely need to take her with me. Just hope she can come.

Glad to be of help. A good advisor is well aware that when they leave the meeting and school that the parents have to still go in and maintain relationships.

Will go and check out your thread

debs40 - have you tried IPSEA? They may be able to advise you. Dh has read about another group called Netweok81. Don't know myuch about them both, but they are independent. Hope that helps a bit

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I also trained as an independant parental supporter with pp. I did the same training as tibni and also did specific training on supporting parents with asd/as through parents programmes.
I recieved no supervision from the pp officers despite dealing with a somewhat difficult caseload and also caring for my dc who has a sld.
I am positive this contributed to the complete emotional breakdown I had
I recieved absolutely no support from them whilst I was poorly despite giving them 2 years of my time, expertise and energy.
As you can probably tell I am a bitter by the way I was treated.
I also do not believe they are impartial, from experience.
Sorry to be so negative but that has been my experience.

Imustahave....you poor thing. That sounds terrible. I can see that this is very stressful work and I can't believe you weren't given methods of support. Hope things are ok for you know.

I spoke to IPSEA and got some advice and to ACE who I actually found to be much more switched on and informative - maybe it was just the person I was speaking to.

I used to see all these posts on here about schools doing nothing unless forced to and I really thought this school would be different. How naive was I?!