Personal budgets and direct payments

Home Truths (App)

About to move out for the first time? Whether you’re moving into student accommodation or your own place, living away from home can be an ...

Learning more about Money

Short reletively simple e-learning cources on: Borrowing & debt Household bills Your income Being on benefits Budgeting Being informed Banking

Disabled parking

Find out about disabled parking in Torbay including how to get a Blue Badge or request a disabled parking bay. Visit: Disabled parking - Torbay ...

Types of SEND (Department of Education (DfE) Categories)

The SEND Code of Practice categorises SEND into 4 areas of need: Cognition and Learning SpLD – Specific learning Difficulty – difficulty that affect one or more specific aspects of learning. ...

Duties on schools to make SEN provision

The SEND Code of Practice says mainstream schools must: use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they ...

Element 1 – Basic pre-pupil entitlement – Core funding

This money comes from the Schools block of the Designated Schools Grant (DGS). Schools, academies and Free schools all get money for each pupil, based ...

I CAN – The Communication Trust and Consortium

The I CAN website has a range of freely downloadable resources that will help adults to support young children’s communication and interaction, including resources developed by ...

What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS): a guide for parents

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Universal, Targeted and Specialist Provision

Universal provision means the support and provision which is ordinarily available to every child or young person in every educational setting in Torbay. Some children ...