Class teacher input via excellent targeted classroom teaching also known as Quality First Teaching.
For your child this would mean:
This group, often called intervention groups by schools, may be:
Children requiring SEND Support (School based)
This means they have been identified by the class teacher as needing some extra support in school.
For your child this would mean:
This means they have been identified by the SENDCO as needing some extra specialist support in school from a professional outside the school. This may be from:
Autism Outreach, Sensory Education Support Service (for pupils with a hearing or visual need), Pathways (for children with behaviour difficulties), Specialist Teachers and an Educational Psychologist.
Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) Service, Community Paediatrician, CAMHs, School Nurse.
For your child this would mean:
The specialist professional will work with your child to understand their needs and make recommendations, which may include:
The school may suggest that your child needs some individual support in school. They will tell you how the support will be used and what strategies will be put in place. This type of support is available for children with specific barriers to learning that cannot be overcome through Quality First Teaching and intervention groups.
This is usually provided via an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). This means your child will have been identified by the class teacher or SENDCO as needing a particularly high level of support or small group teaching (the amount of hours will be specified by an EHCP), which cannot be provided from the budget available to the school.
Usually your child will also need support from professionals outside the school. This may be from:
For your child this would mean:
The school (or you) can request that the Local Authority carry out a statutory assessment of your child’s needs. This is a legal process which sets out the amount of support that will be provided for your child.
After the school have sent in the request to the Local Authority (with a lot of information about your child, including some from you), they will decide whether they think your child’s needs (as described in the paperwork provided), seem complex enough to need a statutory assessment. If this is the case they will ask you and all the professionals involved with your child to write a report outlining your child’s needs. If they do not think your child needs this, they will ask the school to continue with the support at School Action Plus.
After the reports have all been sent to the Local Authority (L.A), the L.A will then decide if your child’s needs are severe, complex and lifelong and that they need more specified extra support in school to make good progress. If this is the case they will write a Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). If this is not the case they will ask the school to continue with the support at School Action Plus and also set up a meeting in school to ensure a plan is in place to ensure your child makes as much progress as possible.
The EHCP will outline the number of hours of individual/small group support your child will receive from the LA and how the support should be used and what strategies must be put in place. It will also have long and short term goals for your child. The additional adult may be used to support your child with whole class learning, run individual programmes or run small groups including your child.
This type of support is available for children whose learning needs are: