SEND and inclusion news
The Children, Young People and Learning (CYPL) SEND & Inclusion newsletter is a publication for professionals and parent carers who champion SEND in West Sussex.
See highlights below, or read the whole Summer 2025 SEND and inclusion newsletter. This issue’s spotlight is emotional health and wellbeing.
Stay Alive app
Grassroots Suicide Prevention has created the Stay Alive app, which can help anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviours, as well as those supporting them.
A parent in West Sussex who has supported their child through a mental health crisis recommends the app based on their personal experience.
Working on Worries Support and Intervention (WOWSI) project
Parents and carers of children at 79 primary schools follow a proven cognitive behaviour therapy model developed by Professor Cathy Cresswell at Oxford University. This helps them support their children with fears, worries and anxiety.
Each school has a trained staff member who delivers the programme and supports parents directly.
Find out more about WOWSI.
Could you be a Summer Reading Challenge volunteer at your local library during the summer holidays?
Each year West Sussex Libraries recruit adults and young people aged 14+ to help us deliver the Summer Reading Challenge to families between July to September.
Our volunteers:
- help families sign up to the challenge online
- listen to children talk about books they have read
- hand out rewards and encourage children to keep reading
This is a fun and rewarding volunteering opportunity. Young people will gain practical work experience that they can add to their CV, increase their confidence in talking to customers, both adults and children and connect and make new friends with other volunteers.
All volunteers will be invited to an information evening where they will learn more about the challenge and what is being asked of them. They will also get to see the rewards that they will be handing out to children.
If you want to learn more about the role and what it involves, listen to volunteer Kiefer talk about the opportunities he has accessed since helping out at his local library:
Discover more about volunteering for the Summer Reading Challenge.
Learn more about the wider Library Service volunteering scheme.
Celebrating National Co-production Week - Monday 30 June to Friday 4 July 2025
Local Offer teamed up with the West Sussex Parent Carer Forum and Young Voices during National Co-production Week.
We shared daily news about co-production in practice and suggested ways to get involved as a parent or carer, young person or West Sussex resident.
Find out more about Celebrating National Co-production Week.