Parenting disabled children and young people and those with SEN Practice Guide

Parenting disabled children and young people and those with SEN Practice Guide

October 6, 2025
| 11:00 am
| Microsoft Teams

Details

Foundation’s Parenting disabled children and young people and those with SEN Practice Guide is one in a series of guides that set out the best available evidence for senior leaders and practitioners to support effective practice and improve how services are commissioned, developed, and delivered across children’s social care. Practice Guides have been commissioned by the Department for Education to support local areas achieve the outcomes of the Children’s Social Care National Framework. 

In this webinar there will be a space to: 

  • Hear more about how this Guide’s recommendations can support commissioning and de-commissioning cycles by using the best available evidence alongside local population and organisational data, professional knowledge and lived experience
  • Consider how the key principles can build on the work already going on in local areas to bring about whole-system culture change
  • Reflect on how parenting support can improve a range of outcomes for disabled children and young people and their parent carers and how each part of the system and workforce has a vital role to play in creating the conditions for effective support
  • Have an opportunity to use the guide’s reflective tool to translate evidence into practice
  • Ask questions and hear from colleagues working across the country, share practice and innovations

This webinar is designed for strategic leaders working with disabled children and young people and their families across Health, Social Care and Education. This can include but is not limited to, Transformation leads, Heads of Service, Commissioners, DSCOs, DMOs, multi-agency safeguarding partners, local authority decision-makers and voluntary organisation providers. It is also suitable for social workers, Family Help Lead Practitioners, SENDCO’s and Family Hub practitioners.

Cost ratings:

Rated 1: Set up and delivery is low cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of less than £100.

Rated 2: Set up and delivery is medium-low cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £100–£499.

Rated 3: Set up and delivery is medium cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £500–£999.

Rated 4: Set up and delivery is medium-high cost, equivalent to an estimated unit cost of £1,000–£2,000.

Rating 5: Set up and delivery is high cost. Equivalent to an estimated unit cost of more than £2,000.

Set up and delivery cost is not applicable, not available, or has not been calculated.

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Child Outcomes:

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Evidence ratings:

Rated 2: Has preliminary evidence of improving a child outcome from a quantitative impact study, but there is not yet evidence of causal impact.

Rated 2+: Meets the level 2 rating and the best available evidence is based on a study which is more rigorous than a level 2 standard but does not meet the level 3 standard.

Rated 3: Has evidence of a short-term positive impact from at least one rigorous study.

Rated 3+: Meets the level 3 rating and has evidence from other studies with a comparison group at level 2 or higher.

Rated 4: Has evidence of a long-term positive impact through at least two rigorous studies.

Rated 4+: Meets the level 4 rating and has at least a third study contributing to the Level 4 rating, with at least one of the studies conducted independently of the intervention provider.

Rating has a *: The evidence base includes mixed findings i.e., studies suggesting positive impact alongside studies, which on balance, indicate no effect or negative impact.

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