Parents - Sunshine Support

Advice, Support, & Consultancy

We support, guide, educate, inform and empower parents and professionals who need our help when navigating their journey within Special Educational Needs & Disabilities and social care.

We support parents, carers, teachers and other SEND professionals and do this confidently with our professional experience and qualifications which are complimented by our lived experience.

If you’d like to hire a SEND Consultant please click the link below.

UPDATE: September 2026
Our consultancy service is welcoming new clients! With new consultants joining our team and completing their Sunshine training, we have reopened our books and can support more families across England and Wales.

Need help requesting an EHCP needs assessment or an IDP statutory assessment? Our experienced consultants can help you prepare your request, explain the process and support you with your next steps. Get in touch to book support.

We also continue to offer consultancy across a wide range of SEND matters, so please contact us to discuss your family’s needs.

Our Sunshine Academy is available 24/7, providing advice, support and information for parents and professionals. Join us here: www.sunshine-support.org/academy

You’ll find courses, discussion boards, live advice clinics, home education resources and opportunities to ask our consultants questions.

We look forward to supporting you.

Sunny regards,
Team Sunshine

We are SEND Consultants and Legal Advisers

We can undertake work in the following areas:

Requesting statutory needs assessments, managing the assessment process and advising on mediation and appeals (EHCPs & IDPs)
Applying for disability benefits (PIP and DLA)
Supporting and representing at tribunals
Writing and issuing Pre-Action Protocol (PAP) Letters
Advising, training and coaching educators to ensure childrens’ needs are understood and met
Social care and accusations of FII, including child protection

We work in accordance with evidence and use a variety of laws and legislation to underpin our work.

We do as much or as little as you need and are flexible in our approach.

How Our SEND Consultancy Services Works…

We tailor our services according to what you need with no surprise invoices.

Our fully insured SEND Consultants take time to understand the background of your case and create a plan of action, with you in the driving seat.

Everything we do for you is agreed upfront, before the work takes place. This means:

There are no surprise invoices and we always work to support payment plans if they are required.
We receive no government funding to ensure we remain impartial and not restricted by ‘red tape’.
Services are charged by the hour. Our charges currently start at £110.00 +VAT per hour.
We can deliver professional training – Price on Application

You remain in control of what you spend with us, just keep an open communication between yourself and your SEND Consultant.

“As a headteacher I thought I knew how to navigate EHCPs. Little did I realise how much of what we were being told was nonsense by the LA. Sunshine have empowered my staff to the point where we have great success requesting EHCPs and the funding we are now in receipt of has helped our children beyond recognition. We cannot thank you enough! We are enrolled for regular training with you now, too”

Headteacher | England | 2023

“I genuinely wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional watching today. For the first time in a long time, I felt like someone actually understood what we’re living through.

Hearing school avoidance explained without blame, and understanding more about what might be happening for my child, has already changed the way I’m looking at things. If this was only day one, I can’t wait for the rest of the week.”

Parent Attendee of School Avoidance Awareness Week | 2026

“We had no idea what we were doing and we could get help from nowhere, then we found Sunshine Support! Now we know our rights, we have an EHCP in place and we didn’t need to attend a tribunal! My fellow SEND parents couldn’t believe how much we have achieved for our son, they thought it wasn’t possible!”

Parent | South Coast | 2023

“We are under so much pressure to increase attendance, we know fines and punitive approaches don’t work. So this week was our big chance to understand school non-attendance better.

We have come away with inexpensive practical approaches we can use now, and it’s helped shine a light on some of our practice that needs updating. Thank you, it’s been a real game changer for our school!”

SENCo Attendee of School Avoidance Awareness Week | 2026