Essex Local Offer

The Essex Local Offer website has information for families about services for children and young people aged 0 to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). There is information about:

• education
• employment
• health
• social care
• equipment
• One Planning
• Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)

There is also information about:

• legislation
• best practice
• other services and providers in Essex

See the links below for details on:

• One Planning
• Parent Helpline
• CHIPS - Children with Hearing Impairment Play and Stay
• Visual Impairment
• Hearing Impairment
• Physical and neurological impairment 

Your SEND offer

We invite every setting in Essex to contribute to the Essex Local Offer.

To update your SEND Offer

• use this template
• add your SEND Offer to your website in a noticeable place
• include the URL to your website when you fill in the self-update on the Provider Portal

When you do this, your Offer will be linked to the Essex Local Offer. It will then show up in the Family Information (FIS) Childcare Search.