Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs

January 7, 2025

Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs

This practice guidance aims to support all practitioners working with children in the Early Years who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). It aims ...

January 8, 2025

Forms and Guidance (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

All the forms named in this practice guidance can be viewed and downloaded from the Torbay Family Hub, Local Offer website found here Torbay SEND ...

January 8, 2025

Identifying a child as needing SEND support (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

In the first instance, where there are concerns about an individual child, the setting SENDCO should act by Clearly identifying their needs through discussion with ...

January 8, 2025

About this guidance (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

This practice guidance aims to support all practitioners working with children in the Early Years who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). It aims ...

January 8, 2025

Assess (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

This is when practitioners observe and identify a child as having additional needs. This is what is stated in the SEND Code of Practice: “Where ...

November 9, 2024

Ensuring all practitioners in the setting understand their responsibilities to children with SEND and the setting’s approach to identifying and meeting SEND (The Role of the Early Years Setting SENDCO)

The Early Years SENDCO will: Work with the manager of the setting to regularly review the SEN and disability policy and practice within the setting ...

January 8, 2025

The Role of the Early Years Setting SENDCO

The Early Years SENDCO has a key role in supporting colleagues and coordinating the response of the setting to children with SEND. The Early Years ...

November 9, 2024

Support from the Home Learning Environment and Early Years (HLE & EY) Service

The setting SENDCo can email the HLE & EY service and arrange an agreed telephone or video call to discuss the child of concern and ...

November 17, 2024

Targeted Interventions for SEND Support (SEN Early Years)

In addition to the early years resources found on SEND Resources - Family Hub (torbayfamilyhub.org.uk), this guidance has been produced that describes interventions considered to ...

November 9, 2024

Advising and supporting colleagues (The Role of the Early Years Setting SENDCO)

The Early Years SENDCO will: Support practitioners to assess their skills and competencies, identify any gaps and implement next steps in professional development & Ensure ...