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NatSIP can offer bespoke training on a wide range of SI-related issues and subjects

Do you need to find trusted partners to help undertake a service review? 

NatSIP can provide consultants and services, with a range of options, to help you review your service and planning.

We offer a bespoke service which can assess delivery needs in a small service review, or expand through to a full strategic review working with commissioners. We bring together a specific team of colleagues, with appropriate knowledge and experience, depending on your needs. The team members are drawn from our partnerships in the sector and informed by work with other services, LAs and the DfE.

To date, NatSIP Associates working in this area have undertaken full scale reviews for Commissioners and SI services, paper reviews of proposals and offered specific advice on individual issues or proposals. As a partnership we are able to offer a menu of services and charge rates which are well below normal consultancy fees for these activities.

For more information and to discuss your needs please contact the NatSIP Service Review Team: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you need to set NatSIP up as a supplier on your purchasing system, for example, to become a member, or to pay for an event place, you will need the information below:

NatSIP's host organisation is Kent County Council. 

Our address is:

NatSIP@Kent County Council
SEN Finance
2nd Floor, Brook House
Reeves Way
John Wilson Business Park
Whitstable
Kent CT5 3SS

Telephone number: 03000 418675

The address for payments is:

Kent County Council
Accounts Receivable
2nd Floor, 1 Sessions Square
Maidstone
Kent ME14 1XX

Email your remittance advice to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our bank account details are:

Sort Code: 60-60-08
Account Number: 00100013
Account Name: KCC General Account
Bank: Nat West
KCC VAT Number: GG204269191

 

NatSIP runs a full programme of events, and the increased size of our event programme this year means that we will be processing over 1,000 booking forms. 

Help us to help you when you want to book a place on one of our events by following the notes below:

1.  Download the booking form for the event from the NatSIP website.  Booking forms are individual to each event, and are for one delegate only.  If you want to book for multiple delegates, please send in a copy of the form or each individual delegate.

 

2.  Fill in the form completely.  We cannot process partially completed forms, and we may not have time to notify you that we cannot process your form because you have left something blank.

 

3.  The commonest booking form fields left blank are 6. Your NatSIP affiliation number and 7. Your purchase order number.  We must have these fields filled in to process your booking.  Please do not email your form in if you don't yet have a purchase order number, or fill the box in with 'Number to follow' - we can't always track PO numbers back to the booking form.  Please wait until you have a purchase order number and enter it on the form before e-mailing your for in to us.

 

4.  Payment by invoice

NatSIP's host organisation is Kent County Council.  If you need to set us up as a supplier on your purchase order system, you can find our address and bank information here.

 

5.  Payment by phone:

For small payments (less than £20) we will ask you to pay by phone.  (This will be shown as a specific option on the booking form). 

To pay by phone, please call the KCC Cashiers Team on 03000 416336, but email in your booking form in the normal way with the date of the payment and a booking confirmation will be sent to you. Please use reference SLucas-NatSIP for your payment.

Thank you!

 

As well as simply visiting the site every so often, there are some simple ways to keep in touch with what's going on on the NatSIP website:

1.  Follow us on Twitter - follow @NatSIPUK and you'll get a tweet from us each time we put something new on the site

2.  Like us on Facebook - We have a Facebook page called 'National Sensory Impairment Partnership' which is updated every time we put something new on the site.  Add us to your timeline to stay up-to-date.

3.  You can sign up for our Email Digest service - receive a weekly (or fortnightly or monthly) email from us showing what's new on the site.  You need to be a registered user of the site and to have logged in before you can sign up for the digest.  See the Email Digest Settings option in the user menu (left) once you are logged on.

4.  Sign up for the NatSIP Newsletter - we send emails with details of what we are doing, and the events we are running.  You need to be registered on the site and lopgged in before you can sign up to the newsletter.  Registration is free, and open to anyone.  A walkthrough/howto on the registration process is here.  Once you have logged in, the newsletter signup box appears on the home page of the site, on the right...

 

1.  NatSIP is listed in the UK Information Comissioner's Office (ICO) Register of Data Controllers.  Our register entry is Reference No ZA258097.

We process data as described in our registration, which you can view here.

2.  The lawful bases for our processing of your data

NatSIP uses several lawful bases for processing data.  These are:

a.  Our legitimate interests - NatSIP's processing of your data is is necessary for the purposes of pursuing NatSIP's legitimate interests (or those of a third party who funds NatSIP's activities or places contracts with NatSIP (except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data).

b.  Our contract with you - NatSIP's processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are your organisation is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into such a contract.

c.  Your consent -

3.  What data we collect

Like many websites, we place cookies on your machine when you use our website

4.  We log downloads and page views

When you visit a page, or download a document from the document library, we log this.  We record the date, time, name of the document you downloaded or page you visited, and other information, including your user name (if your are logged in), IP address, and information about which web browser you use.

We collect this information so that we can see which items are most popular, and where they are used.  We also analyse browser information to ensure that we can fully support the devices our users use.

5.  We use our server logs to solve problems

If you report a problem with the web site to us (for example by contacting our helpdesk), we will often look at the logs to follow the trail of what you have done so that we can identify and fix the problem as quickly as possible

 

Membership

NatSIP offers membership to individuals and organisations, with the aim of ensuring that the work of NatSIP can continue and develop. As well as demonstrating support for the partnership membership offers exceptional value for SI CPD opportunities, discussion events and training compared to other offers in the SI sector.

Why not get your your organisation to become a member?

Details of membership, including a membership application form can be found pdf here.

If you need more information, please contact contact the NatSIP administrator at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you need information to help you get NatSIP set up as a supplier on your purchasing system, you can find our address and bank details here.

Individual Membership

NatSIP values its association with individual professionals, often self-employed or retired, who wish to continue supporting the SI sector and updating their CPD.  SI students can also join as individual members during their course.  Individuals can add greatly to the capacity of NatSIP to achieve its objectives.  

Details of membership, including an individual membership application form can be found pdf here.

Becoming a Sponsor Stakeholder

Since April 2020, NatSIP has welcomed a group of Sponsor organisations to underpin the continuation of the valuable work that NatSIP does.

Becoming a NatSIP Sponsor is open to any member organisation working and involved in the SI sector.  Contributions from sponsors are at a more significant level than annual membershi.  More detail can be provided by Lindsey Rousseau, the NatSIP Facilitator..

As well as opportunities for additional publicity and recognition as NatSIP sponsors, sponsor stakeholder organisations will receive enhanced benefits, (a number of free places at NatSIP training events, etc).

The NatSIP sponsor group is represented on the NatSIP Steering Group.  The Steering Group drives NatSIP policy for the future and the NatSIP Facilitator reports to its members.

The role of the NatSIP Steering Group is to offer guidance and act as a critical friend to the members of the NatSIP workstreams and to support and promote their objectives and outcomes by working collaboratively as a strategic group.

Terms of Reference include:

1.   The NatSIP Steering Group will oversee the development of the NatSIP activity groups through reporting at least once each term (three times a year).
2.   In addition members of the Steering Group will engage in the work of:
    a)  future strategic planning for the NatSIP
    b)  reporting to DFE and, other commissioning contractors, on progress towards agreed objectives
3.   Alongside these work activity groups the Steering Group will consider and approve the progression and development of other SI projects and associated initiatives supporting the SI sector and improved outcomes for children and young people with SI.
4.   Steering Group representation comes from NatSIP member organisations in the major SI voluntary organisations, LA SI support services, specialist schools,and the professional bodies BATOD and VIEW who will all agree to work together to improve outcomes for children, young people with sensory impairment and their families.

 

Group Membership:

There have been changes to the Steering Group membership over the years.  The present list of Steering Group members (and other NatSIP contacts) can be found here.

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