What is it exactly that you do? ♦ Who do you work for? ♦ Who pays you? ♦ Aren’t you just another support group?
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- We are a co-production & participation group – brief explanations are further down the page.
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- We aren’t a support group in the traditional way, but we do support each other as parent carers.
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- We don’t ask you to leave any other support group and join only us – our aim is to work together with all the local support groups to ensure the parent carer voice is well and truly heard in Sunderland.
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- We are entirely independent of any statutory organisation such as the local authority.
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- No-one pays us, we apply for a yearly grant from the DfE for parent participation.
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- The vast majority of our events will be free for parent carers.