A SEND Local Offer should reflect your people and your place. It shouldn't feel like the council's corporate site.
It should feel welcoming, a place for children and parent carers to feel at home.
We'll work with your parent carer forum and young people to get their input and we'll design something they'll be proud of.
We'll even add case studies of real parents and children to show successes in SEND and inclusion.
People come to the SEND Local Offer to do something.
Find something new to do at the weekend
Reassure themselves
Access health services
Apply for respite or other social services
Understand their job opportunities
Plan their work
Look for education support
Placid gives you content patterns that help parent carers, young people, and professionals solve their problem. To do their thing.
Creating nested web pages is essential if your SEND Local Offer is going to be comprehensive, without being overwhelming.
People should be able to click through to find the information they need. Layers of content help people drill down to get as much detail as they want. Placid gives you info pages, guide pages, and step by steps to allow everyone to get to where they need to be.And with case studies you can give real life examples of how services work.
The Placid directory of services is built differently.
We know that a single organisation may have different services, for different audiences, at different places, at different times.
We separate these elements in the "back end" and then combinie them to display on the web pages. That way people can find exactly what they are looking for.
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We'll hold your hand until you can fly
We can help move your content from your existing platform to Placid. We'll help you plan how each page of existing content should look. We'll export and import your existing directory.
Our support is much more than technical. We can support you with
creating your site plan
moving your content from your old Local Offer site
marketing and social media
updating your content
annual updates to directory listings
Once you are up and running with your SEND Local Offer, you'll have complete control over your content. And your service partners will be able to update their own listings on the directory.
We recommend that you take our free course, Readability and the SEND Local Offer, so that you can create content in a format that's ideal for all your users.The SEND Local Offer is a collaboration between the council, health, commissioned services, charites, schools, voluntary organisations, the private sector and more. At pop pop studio we believe it should stand apart from the corporate council website.
For security reasons, some councils will welcome a separate website. Directory service owners can edit their own lisitings, which gives them some access permissions. While we make sure they can't do anything else, having a separate website means there is absolutely no chance of them getting into the corporate website
Check out our planning tool to help you build the most comprehensive SEND Local Offer
