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February 4, 2025

Age 16-18 – Typical characteristics of young people with a Hearing Impairment (HI)

A Hearing Impairment (HI) - a young person may experience difficulties in the following areas:o Following instructions, gaps in their learning.o Retaining new vocabulary.o Understanding ...

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February 14, 2025

SEND 2023 Participation Survey – Easy read

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 – ...

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February 18, 2025

Do (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCos)

Setting SENDCos should refer to the Torbay Early Years Graduated Approach Toolkit SEND Resources - Family Hub (torbayfamilyhub.org.uk) to support them with strategy ideas of ...

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February 18, 2025

SEND Register (Practice Guidance for Early Years Setting SENDCos)

Each Early Years setting must have a SEND Register. What is a SEND Register? The SEND register is a list of all the children in ...

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February 18, 2025

Ensuring parents are closely involved throughout and that their insights inform action taken by the setting (The Role of the Early Years Setting SENDCo)

The Early Years SENDCo will: Make sure parents receive the information, advice and support that they need to participate in the SEND decision-making process. Ensure ...

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September 2, 2025

Pledge 3 – Be thoughtful

You said: “We want people to understand our needs and know how to help” Our pledge to you We will treat you as the expert, ...

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September 2, 2025

Developing our pledge

We asked children, young people, families and carers to provide feedback on how our current systems and responses make you feel. We heard that how ...

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February 14, 2025

Joint area SEND inspection report

In November 2021, a team of inspectors from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) spent five days in Torbay. They talked to children and ...

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September 22, 2025

Forms to request an EHC needs assessment – requests made by a school or other educational setting

A request for an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment (EHCNA) is a process where information is collected from the parents, child or young ...

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February 6, 2025

Tracking Pupil Progress using tools and frameworks in Early Years

For some children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities it can be a challenge to measure the progress they make against targets ...

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