Additional Needs Including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Acknowledgements

Gloucestershire Guidance Booklet for Professionals Working with Children and Young People (0 – 25 yrs) with Additional Needs including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Acknowledgements This guidance document has been prepared with contributions from a wide range of people including: Helen Baker . Parent Representative, Carers Gloucestershire Jo Baldwin . Head of Learning Support, Gloucestershire College Fran Barber . Glos Ed Leader, Steam Mills Primary School Brian Bartlett ......... School Intervention Adviser Julie Brooks . Lead Advisory Teacher, Advisory Teaching Service Di Caesar . Lead Advisory Teacher, Advisory Teaching Service Jane Cavill ........... Portage Lead Greg Cotton . Senior Educational Psychologist Lyn Dance ........... SEN & D Specialist, Head Teacher, Milestone School Catherine Davenport . Early years Locality Adviser Fay Dew ............. Early years Locality Adviser Jan Fischer .......... SEN Monitoring and Support Officer Britt Fox ............. Parent Partnership Service, Carers Gloucestershire Davina Griffin ......... Senior Educational Psychologist Alan Hart ............ Youth Support Team Katie Heaney ......... Educational Psychologist Sherrill Holder ........ Project & Business Officer Sarah Hylton. Service Manager – Early Intervention SEN and Disability Pat Kearney . Senior Educational Psychologist Edel Keating . Commissioning Manager SEND Programme Lisa Meggs .......... School Intervention Adviser Jill Mitchell ........... Trainee Educational Psychologist Lynn Morris .......... SEN Post-16 Strategic Lead Natalie Packer . Author of The Perfect SENCO Jill Parker . Early Years Advisor Emma Price . SENCO, Beaufort Co-operative Academy Nathan Roe. SEN Monitoring and School Support Officer David Rumsey ........ SEND Action Plan Coordinator Marcella Scoles ....... Glos Ed Leader, Steam Mills Primary School Deborah Shepherd. Principal Educational Psychologist and Head of the Advisory Teaching Service Jane Shotbolt ......... Community Lead Officer Susan Shoyemi . Parent Representative, Carers Gloucestershire Beverley Williams ..... Senior Casework Officer, SEN Casework Team Chantel Yeates ....... Deputy Headteacher, Winchcombe School There were also valuable contributions from Glos Ed Leaders for SEND, members of the Advisory Teaching Service and Educational Psychology Service. Front cover: Cooking in the kitchen © Active Impact – The Wiggly Worm (charity) Creative camping © Active Impact – Creative Sustainability CIC 2 Gloucestershire Guidance Booklet for Professionals Working with Children and Young People (0 – 25 yrs) with Additional Needs including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Foreword The principles on which the SEND reforms are founded, provide us with a once in a generation opportunity to meet the aspirations and hopes of all children and young people in Gloucestershire who have additional needs, not just those who are disabled, or identified as having Special Educational Needs. We have been working with partners across Gloucestershire to develop a single, graduated pathway for early identification and intervention to support all children and young people with additional needs - an approach which empowers them to become independent and successful on their journey, and, as far as possible, the author of their own life story. I hope this guidance booklet, along with the other tools we have developed, will be useful in supporting the crucial role you play in each child and young person’s life, as we strive to improve outcomes for all and enrich the lives of children and young people with additional needs. Tim Browne Head of Special Educational Needs & Disability July 2014 Gloucestershire Guidance Booklet for Professionals Working with Children and Young People (0 – 25 yrs) with Additional Needs including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities 3 Contents Gloucestershire’s Vision for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities . 6 Introduction. 6 Implications of Code of Practice .....................................................7 Early Help – integrated pathway .....................................................8 Person Centred Approaches – involving children, young people and families ..................10 Gloucestershire’s Local Offer (SEN D): Schools and Colleges . .11 The role of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator. .12 The role of the Special Educational Needs Governor. .13 Identification and Assessment of Needs . .15 Identification of needs through integrated approach to assessment and planning. .15 A graduated approach that enables the right level of intervention and support when needed. .17 Principles of the graduated approach ...............................................18 The pathway for the graduated and integrated approach ................................19 Step-by-step guidance. .21 SEN Personal Budgets explained ...................................................27 Reviewing My Plan, My Plan + and Education, Health and Care Plan ........................28 Access and Inclusion . .29 Benefits of Provision Mapping .....................................................29 The continuum of support in Gloucestershire ..........................................31 SEND funding arrangements in mainstream settings. .33 Resourced provision provided within mainstream schools within Gloucestershire . .35 Special schools within Gloucestershire ...............................................35 Pupil Premium. .37 Independent Specialist providers, Mainstream Colleges and Non Maintained Special School Funding ..........................................................39 Recording provision and monitoring and evaluating the impact. .40 Children and Young People in Care. .43 Management of health care needs and medication. .45 Information about exclusion. .46 Glossary . 48 4 Gloucestershire Guidance Booklet for Professionals Working with Children and Young People (0 – 25 yrs) with Additional Needs including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Contents Gloucestershire Intervention Guidance for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Early Years Settings, Schools and Post-16 Settings . 49 Early Years Settings . 51 Communication and Language . .53 Personal, Social and Emotional Development ........................................55 Physical Development . .57 Hearing Impairment ............................................................59 Visual Impairment .............................................................61 General Guidance: Evaluating Progress and Reviewing. .63 Schools . 64 Communication and Interaction Needs . .64 Cognition and Learning Needs ...................................................68 Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs .........................................72 Physical and Medical Needs . .76 Hearing Impairment ............................................................80 Visual Impairment .............................................................84 Post-16 Settings . .88 Communication and Language . .90 Cognition and Learning Needs ...................................................94 Social, Mental and Emotional Health Needs .........................................98 Physical and Medical Needs . .102 Hearing Impairment ...........................................................106 Visual Impairment ............................................................110 Please note that the most recent verion of this guidance booklet and associated documents can be found on SENCOSPOT. Please check this on a regular basis. Gloucestershire Guidance Booklet for Professionals Working with Children and Young People (0 – 25 yrs) with Additional Needs including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities 5 Gloucestershire’s Vision for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Introduction Ensuring that Gloucestershire children, young people and adults with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) experience a high quality of life and education is at the heart of the guidance contained within this booklet. There is a strong emphasis that the inclusion of people with special educational needs and disabilities in society is everyone’s concern and that in educational settings it is not something the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) can achieve alone. At the heart of information and guidance The website SENCOSPOT also effective SEND coordination is to all educational settings in provides up to date information the commitment to ensure that Gloucestershire with regards for schools to support key staff in everyone has a right to achieve and to fulfilling their responsibilities relation to the coordination of SEN enjoy life. A quality educational towards children and young within schools and settings experience helps to build resilience people with special educational and is a huge enabling factor in needs and disabilities. The aim http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ later life. This guidance booklet is to inform inclusive, enabling schoolsnet/sencospot sets out Gloucestershire’s response and consistent practice across to the SEND reforms outlined in the Early Years settings, schools and This guidance booklet is intended Code of Practice so that the best Post-16 Settings and ensure as a broad framework within possible outcomes for children that all the necessary legislative which educational settings can and young people with special requirements are followed and work. It is acknowledged that educational needs and disabilities reflect the national, regional and the circumstances within each can be achieved. local priorities

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