Local Offer
Dear Portsmouth City Council,
As part of the Government Green paper (Support and Aspiration) The government has outlined a new approach to special educational needs and disability. As part of this initiative the government requires all local authorities in England to set out a Local Offer.
The purpose of the Local Offer is to enable parents and young people to see more clearly what services are available to them in their area and how to access them.
Please provide answers to the following questions
1. What is your local authority currently offering for online advice and guidance for Local Offer?
2. What is the name of the person who is leading on the Local Offer within your Local Authority?
Yours faithfully,
Bill Turnball
Customer, Community and Democratic Services
Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL
Telephone: 023 9268 8482
Reference: FOI20131063
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24 January 2014
Dear Mr Turnball
FOI INFORMATION REQUEST – LOCAL OFFER
Thank you for your request for information received on 23 December 2013
which was considered under the Freedom of Information Act.
You asked us:-
1. What is your local authority currently offering for online advice and
guidance for Local Offer?
2. What is the name of the person who is leading on the Local Offer
within your Local Authority?
In accordance with the Act, I confirm Portsmouth City Council holds in
part the information you are seeking. The Local Offer, including any
'on-line' iteration of that, is currently in development and we do not
therefore hold the information at this time. I am however able to confirm
that Richard Harvey is the Programme Lead.
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Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall
Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482, e-mail
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Yours sincerely
Peter Harding
Corporate Information Governance Officer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Turnball [mailto:[FOI #190482 email]]
Sent: 23 December 2013 15:22
To: FoI (ITS)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Local Offer
Dear Portsmouth City Council,
As part of the Government Green paper (Support and Aspiration) The
government has outlined a new approach to special educational needs and
disability. As part of this initiative the government requires all local
authorities in England to set out a Local Offer.
The purpose of the Local Offer is to enable parents and young people to
see more clearly what services are available to them in their area and how
to access them.
Please provide answers to the following questions
1. What is your local authority currently offering for online
advice and guidance for Local Offer?
2. What is the name of the person who is leading on the Local
Offer within your Local Authority?
Yours faithfully,
Bill Turnball
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