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September 24, 2026

Torbay SEND Strategy – 2023

Torbay’s Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets out a vision ‘to create a healthy, happy Torbaywhere individuals and communities can thrive’. Children and young people ...

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September 5, 2026

Priority Impact Plan

The Priority Impact Plan outlines a strategic, co-produced roadmap to improve services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) across ...

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January 13, 2025

Residential care home

For some people, residential care is more appropriate. This tends to be for young people with more complex needs, because of their physical need, health ...

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September 23, 2026

Torbay Guidance and Assessment for Multilingual Children

This guidance provides early years practitioners with practical tips on how to support young children from multilingual backgrounds.  There is a comprehensive description of the ...

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June 18, 2025

The Torbay Belonging Strategy

The Torbay Belonging Strategy has been created to support children and young people to maintain their school places by recognising and meeting need. Belonging Strategy ...

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February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Post 16

Cognition and Learning: General learning difficulties SEND support: Needs to be met from core funding for learners aged 16 to 19+ with general learning difficulties ...

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Torbay SEND Voice - Speech

March 16, 2026

Service offer or referral pathway for Speech, Language and Communication Needs

Children and Family Health Devon:Speech, language and communication - Children and Family Health DevonRequesting help from CFHD - Children and Family Health Devon AAC West ...

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February 4, 2025

Helpful Resources for specific needs (Dyslexia, Dyspraxia/Developmental Coordination Disorder, Dyscalculia or Classic Tic Disorders)

Please note that the following list of need is not exhaustive: Dyslexia What is dyslexia? – British Dyslexia Association Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Specific Learning ...

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September 18, 2026

How and when does the Local Authority decide whether or not to carry out an EHC needs assessment?

The Local Authority (LA) must make a decision and let you know their decision within 6 weeks of receiving the request for an Education, Health ...

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January 14, 2026

Paignton Academy – Enhanced Resource Provision – Social, Emotional & Mental Health

The Academy is the designated secondary school in Torbay for students with anxiety/phobic difficulties.  As such, we have local authority funded places to ensure that ...

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