get involved - participation for parents by parents

Parents have told us they don’t feel listened to. We are trying to change that.

We have been commissioned by Cambridgeshire County Council to improve the way parents are involved in making decisions about how support is provided to families. We are using this money to build a network that will represent the voice of parents across Cambridgeshire.

We helped Children and Young People's Services develop a Parent Carer Involvement Strategy. If you want to know more, download the Strategy from their website.

Most of the money is to help us develop the network for parents of disabled children because this is a government priority. And we also have a grant from Together for Disabled Children. But we want all parents to have the opportunity to get involved if they want to.

We have an ‘Are you listening’ feedback form to check that service providers are!

There are a number of ways you can get involved with pinpoint:

• as an individual
• as a group of parents
• as an organisation or service providing support to parents