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      <title>Southend Adult Community College is now Southend City Community College</title>
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      <description>Last week, the Civic Centre welcomed more than 80 young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) from 7 local schools for an engaging and interactive Careers Day.</description>
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      <description>The Area SEND Partnership would like to express our sincere thanks to all parents, carers, children and young people, and practitioners who contributed to the recent Area SEND Inspection.</description>
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      <description>Summer health advice is especially important during periods of hot weather, as high temperatures can affect your health and wellbeing.</description>
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      <description>Southend is finalising its SEND Reform Plan across 6 workstreams to improve local mainstream inclusion, boost early support, and enhance school capacity.</description>
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      <title>New Opening Times – Brook Southend Sexual Health Service</title>
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      <description>The application window for Short Breaks grants for families and groups and organisations is now open</description>
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      <description>The Southend Educational Psychology Team is offering online and face to face workshops to help parents through important school milestones. </description>
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      <description>The Southend Youth Council invites young people aged 14 to 25 with SEND to complete a survey to give their views on careers support.</description>
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      <description>The Southend SEND Local Offer Team and Southend SEND Independent Forum (SSIF) win a national award for inclusive communications.</description>
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      <description>A dementia-friendly golf taster at Garon Park showcased inclusive sport, helping people with dementia build confidence, stay active and connect socially through welcoming, accessible golf sessions.</description>
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