by Bolton Parent Carers | Aug 18, 2025 | News
Bolton Parent Carers and Bolton Information Advisory Service have together formed a CIC called The Compass Partnership Bolton. You can read about this here. As well as providing both organisation with a more secure structure for the future, by formally joining...
by Bolton Parent Carers | Aug 7, 2025 | News
What is The Compass Partnership Bolton? The Compass Partnership Bolton is a new Community Interest Company (CIC) that brings together Bolton Parent Carers and Bolton Information Advisory Service. Nan Cooper from Bolton Parent Carers and Cheryl Wyatt from Bolton IAS...
by Bolton Parent Carers | Jan 12, 2025 | News
Our current theme that we are gathering the experiences of parents and carers of is “Transition to Secondary School.” We are very aware that there a number of improvements that can be made to this experience for families who have children with SEND. Many...
by Nan Cooper | Jan 8, 2025 | News
Our Starting School and SEND Workshops are aimed at parents and carers who have little ones due to start school in September 2025 or 2026. The content of the sessions covers the breadth of information that is needed – whether you have a little one who is early...
by Nan Cooper | Aug 30, 2024 | News
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out a Local Area SEND Inspection of the Bolton local area in June of this year. The report has been published by Ofsted today and Bolton has received the following outcome: “The local area...
by Bolton Parent Carers | Jun 3, 2024 | News
Every September we run workshops for parents and carers who are keen to understand more about the move to Secondary School when your child has special educational needs. We are back for our 7th year of running these workshops! Whether your child has an EHC Plan or...
by Bolton Parent Carers | May 18, 2024 | News
10 Years ago, in May 2014 Bolton Parent Carer Consortium was formed when 6 established groups from Bolton came together: Breaking Barriers, Daytrippers, Parent Partnership*, Kidz2gether, Zacs and BACPAC to form a parent carer forum for Bolton. The impending launch of...
by Bolton Parent Carers | May 3, 2024 | News
We’ve spent some time this Spring giving our little office a complete make-over! We moved into The Bolton CVS Hub back in 2018 where we rent a small office space. This year we decided it was time to try and configure that space so that we can make better use out...
by Bolton Parent Carers | Apr 30, 2024 | News
Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) We are really pleased to be joining up with Bolton Council and local partners for the PINS project. PINS is a national project funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and supported by NHS England...
by Bolton Parent Carers | Mar 27, 2024 | News
As part of the Autism in Schools project, which you can read about here, we have been part of the staff training sessions that have taken place in schools. There are five training modules that are delivered in each school that is taking part in the project:...
