The Special Educational Needs Disability Information Advice and Support Service provided by Citizens Advice Bureau in Waltham Forest is a confidential service and that can:

• Listen to parents concerns and queries
• Can offer contact with an independent supporter
• Signpost to other sources of help and information
• Help you to get your views, the views of your child or young person known, understood and valued
• Help you prepare and go with you to meetings
• Help with paperwork and writing reports and letters
• Help you to look at all of the options
• Look at ways of overcoming differences

CAB is available to all parents resident in Waltham Forest whose children have special educational needs. We aim to promote partnership between parents, the Local Authority (LA), schools, early years settings, health, social services and specialist children's services. Parents know their child better than anyone and have a key role to play in their child's education.