Parents Forum UGS

Please see invite as follows for parents of Children and Young people placed at UGS. We have sent out invites in the post!  Hope to see you soon, Kind regards Robbie Burke

Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

                              Due to recent developments and consistent drive for improvement within our organisation we would like to invite you to an evening of light refreshments and discussions. This will be  about UGS and how we can incorporate parental feedback to sculpt and develop our service further. We are very committed to ensuring we proactively listen to feedback from parent’s social workers and third parties, so we are intending to host a number of quarterly forums.

We clearly acknowledge that barriers our young people face due to complex Learning difficulties, Mental illnesses and Autistic Spectrum Conditions inhibits their involvement in a number of areas of their lives. Therefore I believe the coming together of you as a body / Forum to support and advocate in a collective fashion will add great value to our organisation.

We hope these events to be very relaxed opportunity for parents to meet and discuss issues which you will be all very familiar with. We will also hopefully be able to use these events to work in partnership with our health, therapy, social services and legal colleagues to help support and guide you with further support for your Child.

We would like to host the first event on the 13^th of June at 18.00 the agenda would be as follows

·        18.00/ 18.30 Refreshments and introductions

·        18.35 An introduction to the concept of a parents Forum. R Burke

·        18.45 An introduction to our current development plan and long term aims.

 G McEwan, R Burke

·        19.00 Hosted discussion about Care planning and parental involvement for young people with learning difficulties, complex needs and mental illnesses. R Burke, Jonathan Middleton, Helen Hargreaves, Elaine Capstick

·        19.30 tea and coffee

·        19.40 Open forum for parent / carer feedback, Marie Lawson, Elaine Capstick

·        20.10 Resume. R Burke

·        20.20 Close

Your involvement in this event is very valuable to us and we would really welcome your attendance. Thank you in advance and we hope to see you on the 13 th, kind regards