Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (IPSEA)

IPSEA offer free and independent legally-based information, advice, and support to help you get the right education for children / young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). They also provide training on the SEND legal framework. Services include:

Free Online Resources

• What are special educational needs?
• How should the local authority help?
• How should your nursery, school or college help?
• Education, Health and Care plans
• Choosing a school or college
• Transport to school or college
• Exclusion from school
• Young people (aged 16-25)
• Model letters
• SEN and disability law
• Making a complaint or challenging a decision
• Health and social care

Advice Line (Phone appointments to be booked online).

Tribunal helpline (Phone appointments must be booked online).

Tribunal Support Service (accessed via the Tribunal Helpline).

Information Service request information online, and IPSEA will signpost you to the correct online resource.

Registered charity no. 327691.