Volunteer for IPSEA
Will you be there when a family or young person needs you most?
IPSEA offers free, independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). One in five school pupils has SEND and thousands of these pupils are struggling to fulfil their educational potential. We are the only charity providing this service across all SEND issues in England, working to empower parents to challenge their local authorities.
Becoming an IPSEA volunteer means being there when a family or young person needs you most. Just four hours each week can help hundreds of families and young people.
Ways you can help IPSEA
Can you help us to help more families?
Advice line volunteer
You’ll be trained and develop the skills needed to provide legally based information, advice and support to parents with children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Think this may be the role for you? Learn more about our advice line volunteer role.
Tribunal support service volunteer
You’ll be trained and develop the skills needed to provide individual casework support for tribunal appeals on behalf of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Think this may be the role for you? Learn more about our tribunal support service volunteer role.
Admin volunteer
Give us a few hours each week to help behind the scenes in our Saffron Walden office. This could involve anything from answering phones to updating our database.
Think this may be the role for you? Learn more about our admin volunteer role.
In 2016 our volunteers have helped more than 4,600 families on the Advice Line and Tribunal Helpline and offered case work support to more than 350 families