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Sunshine Support
Award-winning leading SEND organisation, empowering parents and professionals with advocacy, consultancy and training.
About Sunshine Support
We're an award-winning SEND organisation, providing independent information, advice and support to parents, carers and professionals of children and young people with special educational needs. We were founded in 2017 by Chrissa Wadlow after her own gruelling battle to gain her daughter a suitable education provision. Her journey, littered with injustice, was filled with a catalogue of errors and the family received very limited help from services they thought they could trust, creating irreparable damage for the entire family. It took 2 SEND tribunals, a high court case and one final SEND tribunal for Chrissa to gain the educational placement her daughter needs. It shouldn't be this hard. Chrissa could not allow this to continue to happen, and so formed Sunshine Support to help other families navigate their way through the process of Special Educational Needs to ensure they received the RIGHT advice and guidance from trustworthy experts. We have now helped more than 10,000 families across the country to get what their children need; gaining equity and justice. We provide access to independent SEND professionals whose specialisms cannot usually be provided through local government and health authorities.
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Signals from Sunshine Support
6 published signals
Research & Knowledge
Sunshine Support published the School Avoidance & Non-Attendance Research 2026, bringing together the experiences of 1,103 families.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow
Research & Knowledge
Sunshine Support will publish the full research findings next week ahead of School Avoidance Awareness Week.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow
Research & Knowledge
Sunshine Support conducted the largest piece of research on school avoidance and school non-attendance over the summer.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow
Research & Knowledge
Sunshine Support conducted research on school avoidance with 1,105 responses.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow
Research & Knowledge
Sunshine Support analyzed 1,105 responses from families about school avoidance and non-attendance.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow
Legal & Regulatory
Sunshine Support noted that the Ombudsman did not conclude that alternative provision definitely should have been provided in the case of a child with EHCP placement.
Reported by Chrissa Wadlow