Everyone at Westmeads is dedicated to delivering the best possible opportunities for our children. We also recognise without judgement that there are often many external factors that can effect our children and families access to the education we offer.

Our Inclusion team work hard to support parents with wide-ranging concerns. For example, parenting challenges, bereavement, divorce, housing difficulties, finance difficulties, health concerns, wellbeing concerns and more. Where possible, we will signpost to outside agencies for specialist advice, or can refer to Early Help for specific family support.

We encourage each of our families to reach out to us if there are any concerns that we may be able to help with and in turn, we will do our best to support where possible. 

If you wish to contact a member of inclusion team, please contact school on 01227 272995 and ask for either Mrs Jo Elms, Family Liason Officer, Mrs Angharad Thomas, SENDCo or Mr Jamie Sonnex, Assistant Head Teacher and Inclusion Lead.

‘Fantastic the team have arranged a course, Confident Parent Confident Child, which is proving to be very helpful for me, thank you.’

‘Very grateful for the support offered which benefited all of us at home, not just my daughter, thank you.’

‘The advice from the team was really helpful, especially for dealing with bereavement. We are really grateful for their support.’

‘The team were extremely helpful at a difficult time. They gave excellent advice after really exploring the situation and I felt better equipped to deal with emotions and feelings at that time.’

‘It was encouraging and supportive to feel that my worries were listened to.’

‘It was a relief to know that I could confide in a member of staff.'