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)

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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)

Last Updated - February 18, 2025

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 and agree how it will be implemented.
Be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the setting’s SEND policy, and for coordinating provision across the setting.
Implement SEND support and the graduated approach of assess, plan, do, review to meet the outcomes identified for the child
Support individual practitioners in implementing the approach for individual children.
Meet the requirements for record-keeping in a way that supports a participative decision-making process.
Draw on a range of sources, including the views of the child, supported by reliable evidence of effectiveness, to inform their advice and support to colleagues on different approaches to improving children’s progress.