Torbay SEND Local Offer - Family Hub

February 14, 2025

SEND 2023 Participation Survey – full report

We produced two surveys in 2023 to ask people what they thought of Torbay’s SEND services. The surveys were available during June and July – ...

February 18, 2025

Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND): The Graduated Approach (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

All children are individuals. They will progress at different rates and need different learning opportunities to reach their full potential. A child may just need ...

February 18, 2025

Plan (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

Practitioners and parents/carers then agree a plan of action that is additional and different from that provided as part of the setting’s usual curriculum and ...

February 18, 2025

Case File (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCOs)

The graduated approach should be led and coordinated by the setting SENDCo working with and supporting individual practitioners in the setting. A case file for ...

February 18, 2025

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 ...

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 ...

September 2, 2025

Pledge 2 – Show you we care

You said: “We want to feel like the people around us are supportive” Our pledge to you We will listen carefully and ensure that we ...

November 22, 2024

Restorative practice

The Torbay local area is working to adopt Restorative Practice, a strength-based approach that recognises that building a positive relationship with children, young people and ...

November 29, 2024

Forms to request an EHC needs assessment – Statutory Assessment requests made young person over 16 years of age

EHCNA requests, also known as Requests for Statutory Assessment (RSAs) for young people, aged 16 and above, to use: The law says that if your ...

February 6, 2025

Assessing and reviewing via Baseline and ongoing assessments

It is reasonable to expect that schools and settings should undertake baseline assessments at the start of any interventions, as this will enable staff to ...