Author: Emma Anderton

Wakefield Early Support Advice Information &
Liaison Service
(WESAIL)

All about us

SENDIASS is part of WESAIL.
The letters in SENDIASS stand for Special Educational Needs &
Disabilities Information, Advice and
Support Service.

You can get help and information from SENDIASS if you or someone you know have
Special Educational Needs or a
Disability (SEND).

Special educational needs means that you need extra help to learn things.
A disability is a physical or mental need that makes it hard to do things like walk, talk or see.

SENDIASS can help you with lots of things, like:
School or College
Telling you where to go for Health
or Care support

Pre & Plus working is part of WESAIL.
This is when someone needs more support.
We do this as an extra to sendiass or as a “Complex case”.

We can help to signpost you to other services.
Signposting is when we tell you about other places to go to for support and give you a phone number, email address or
website.

A “Complex case” may include:
Speaking with professionals for your family
Telling you about paperwork
Answering questions
This is for Under 5’s only
This is for children under 5 years old

We cannot help with:
Behaviour
Toilet training
Going with you to
appointments
Attending all meetings

WESAIL also includes the Local
Offer.
The Local Offer tells you things and helps children & young
people aged 0-25 years old.

It also helps parents, carers and professionals.
There is a website for the Local
Offer.
This mainly tells you about services in the Wakefield area.

The website includes
information on :
Education
Health
Social care
Housing

Employment
Money
Travel
Things to do

A newsletter is made each term
called “News & Views”.
A newsletter gives you
Information, news from services and places that can help you.

You can get the newsletter on the Local Offer website.
https://wakefield.mylocaloffer.org/Home

You can also get it by post or email.
For this to happen you need to join the
“Information Network” (IN).

To join the IN please use https://wakefield.mylocaloffer.org/information-network/how-can-i-join/
They can also give you a max card.
The card gives you money off places to visit.

Our service is free for anyone to use who lives or works in the Wakefield district.
Free means you do not pay.

We are separate to the Council.
The Council is a group of people who decide what is happening in a place and what money is spent on.

WESAIL is a confidential service.
This means that we will not tell other people about what you say unless:
You want us to
A child, young person or adult is in danger

WESAIL is an impartial service.
This means we do not take sides. We are here to help
everyone feel heard and
listened to.

We are open Monday to Friday
From 9am-5pm.
We do not open on weekends or Bank Holidays.

The best way to contact us is by email.
You can email us
wesail@family-action.org.uk
We will email or ring you back.

You can ring and leave a
message.
Our number is 01924 965588
We will ring or email you back.

We will send you things that help by email or tell you when we talk on the phone.
You can ask us to send you things in the post.

You can find us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/WakefieldWESAILandLocalOffer

We use Facebook to tell you where you can find help and support.
We also use Facebook to tell you about places you might want to go or activities you might want to do.

You can find out more online
WESAIL on Local Offer
https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we-do/children-families/wesail/

This leaflet has been made to be interactive. This means you can click on the blue writing to take you to the information
A printable version of this WESAIL leaflet is on the Local Offer