Parent Partnership Service

Service aims:

To promote effective working partnerships between parents and school, the Local Authority and any others who support children who have special or additional educational needs.

How does partnership help?

The service offers confidential, one to one, impartial parental support and enables parents of children who have additional educational needs to become partners in the identification and assessment of the child’s additional educational needs and the provision required to meet their needs in school.

Who does the service help?

Parents and carers of children aged 2-19 in education.

It also supports anyone working with these children.

How does the service work?

The service supports families of children with additional needs.

All calls are confidential.

Options include:

Working out an action plan with parents
Providing independent, impartial information
Access to various sources of independent support
Access to drop-in sessions at numerous locations
Personal support at meetings involving your child
Providing ways to resolve disputes
Access to voluntary mediation.

The service is not restricted to parents. Anyone who has involvement with children who have additional educational needs can contact the service.

How to contact us

Telephone

Help-line: 0161 287 8555
Admin: 0161 770 3135
Email: parent.partnership@oldham.gov.uk
Web Site: www.oldhampps.org.uk

By Post

Oldham Parent Partnership Service
Education Shop
5 Barn Street
Oldham
OL1 1LP
Service Manager Geoff Lewis

Drop-In ‘Clinics’

No appointment necessary. (Phone to check the next available session- details of dates and venues on welcome page of web site).

Royal Oldham Hospital
Children’s Out-patients Department
2nd Friday every month from 09.30am to 12.30pm

Woodfield Centre for Children With Disabilities
Netherfield Close
Manchester Road
Oldham
OL8 4ET
Every 4th Wednesday every month (except December). From 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Lyndhurst/Springbrook School

Heron Street, Oldham,

3rd Tuesday each month (term time only) from 10:30am to 1:30pm

Cockcroft Children’s Centre

Cockcroft Hall, High Street, Shaw.

1st Wednesday every month from 09:30am to 12:30pm