Essex County Council SENCO Manual 2011

Essex County Council

Welcome to the Essex SENCO Manual, which was compiled by a working group of Essex SENCOs and Local Authority representatives, following publication of the revised SEN Code of Practice in 2001, to assist you with your key contribution to the education of children with special educational needs in Essex schools.

The manual should be used in conjunction with the revised SEN Code of Practice (DfES/581/2001) and the SEN Toolkit (DfES/558/2001). It is intended to provide guidance for you, often acting as a signpost to other publications or sources of information and is reviewed and updated annually.

The contents of this manual can only be downloaded from the SEN Paperwork page of the Essex Schools’ Infolink site and any revisions or additions to sections will be posted there as they become available.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this manual in any way - particularly to the people listed below who were all, at some stage, members of the working group, which met from October 2000 to publication of the early issues of the Manual in 2002.

Lesley Brooking King John School, Thundersley Annette Griffin Mildmay Infants and Nursery School, Chelmsford Gill Marrion Nabbotts Infants School, Chelmsford Jan Marshall Boreham Primary School, Chelmsford Sandra Page John Bramston School, Witham Barbara Reynolds Woodlands Special School, Chelmsford Margaret Skaith Ravenscroft Primary School, Clacton Ruth Sturdy The Deanes School, Benfleet Chris Sumner Greensward College, Hockley Suzanne Temple Copford Primary School, Colchester Karen Woolhouse Kingsmoor Junior School, Harlow

Pat Barry SENaPS Alison Bridge SENaPS Linda Fisher ECC (seconded from Southend Hospitals NHS Trust) Alan Fuller SENaPS Jackie Jackson-Smith SENaPS Moira Lauder AIS Scarlette Manley SENaPS

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Essex County Council SENCO Manual 2011

Jonathan Miller SENaPS Debbie Orton SENaPS Anne Porter SENaPS Louise Roberts SENaPS Pam Rushton SENaPS Sue Shapiro AIS Debbie Wood AIS

Administrative Support Beverley Wood Beverley Talbot Flora Virgoe Michelle Brackley

SENaPS = Special Educational Needs and Psychology Service, ECC ECC = Essex County Council NHS = National Health Service AIS = Advisory and Inspection Service, ECC

The Manual has subsequently been fully updated in 2007 and 2011 by Joanna Mallows, SEN Inclusion and Monitoring Officer

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