Your voice 11 - 16

Silverwood school, host to some of the BBC's young reporter competition winners in the West, is about to have a multi-million pound redevelopment.

There will be lots of big changes, including new classrooms, and more teachers and support staff. This means even more young people who have a disability, or special educational needs, will be able to join the school's special community.

Some of the pupils gave a report about their school to the BBC as part of the Young Reporter Award. Newsround also released some coverage from the students. See these here:

Watch: Silverwood Young Reporters

Watch: Silverwood School Newsround update

Published: December 2022

Advocacy - Someone on your side.

You have as much right as an adult to be listened to when decisions are being made about your life. What you feel and want is very important.

What an advocate does:

• Listens to you
• Explains information
• Finds out your wishes and feeling
• Helps you tell others what you want or tells them for you, if you want the advocate to do this
• Gets answers to your questions
• Won't tell you what to do
• Is independent which means they won't make any decisions about or for you

For more information on the advocacy service for Wiltshire please visit their website:

Young Person's Advocacy

Ways to have a voice in changing and improving services in Wiltshire

There are many people you can talk to and organisations that can help you take part in shaping services to suit your needs. There is a page you can visit dedicated to this:

Getting involved

This includes organisations like Wiltshire Parent Carer Council, Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living and Healthwatch Wiltshire.

Wiltshire Council is dedicated to using consultation and co-creation to produce a people-centered approach to make progress. To find out where Wiltshire SEND community members have been agents of change please read our continually updated summary.

For more information please visit:

You Said, We Did