'Annual reviews - the process and your rights' provides valuable guidance for parents and carers of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) who want to learn more about the annual review process. 

This webinar was delivered live in December 2023 by members of our legal team, and covered crucial topics, including:

• When annual reviews and phase transfer reviews should take place, and what the review process is for these, 
• What rights parents, carers and young people have, and
• What action they can take if the process is not followed.

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Meet the trainers

Kate Cox

As a member of the legal team, Kate provides legal support to volunteers and supervises their helpline and Tribunal Support Service work. She also writes monthly updates for the volunteers, ensuring they are kept up to date with legal and policy changes. She helps maintain IPSEA’s legal resources and briefings, and provides training to parents and carers as well as professionals. Kate also supports the policy team in their work. In her spare time, Kate loves to have her nose in a new book, getting outside and exercising, and playing with her two sons.

Alex Stafford

Alex is a solicitor in IPSEA's legal team. She is responsible for delivering training to new volunteers but also ongoing training to existing volunteers and delivering IPSEA's programme of external training to parents, schools, SEN specialists and local authorities. As well as the training, Alex also provides legal support to the IPSEA volunteers and monitors and supervises the volunteers' work as well as providing them with any legal updates.  Alex also creates legally based written resources. When not being a taxi driver for her children, Alex can be found in the kitchen making jam.