Tribunal Support volunteer role description
Title Tribunal Support Volunteer – Home based
Co-ordinated by Bonny White (Office based)
Purpose To enable parents of children with SEN/disability to cope with the challenges of bring a case to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.
Main Tasks Working from home, you will work with individual parents to:
- Give general advice on the Tribunal and its procedures
- Complete the notice of appeal form
- Set out the reasons for appeal
- Assess evidence to be submitted to support a case and further evidence to be obtained
- Advise on suitability of witnesses
- Negotiate & mediate with the Local Authority
- Provide advocacy where needed
Commitment We ask tribunal support volunteers to take a minimum of five cases per year in their nominated geographical area.
The volunteer will telephone the parent and advise them in detail on their case and continue to advise them up to the hearing. The volunteer can then represent the parent at the Tribunal hearing.
We estimate that each case will take 15 hours of preparation work followed by one day in Tribunal. This varies depending on the type of case and the stage at which the parent contacts IPSEA.