Sometimes parents/carers request a place at an Early Years setting for their child who has an identified need. In this case it is important to hold a transition meeting for the parents/carers and other practitioners already involved with the child, preferably before the child starts at the setting. In this way the setting SENDCo can carefully plan and provide the most appropriate level of support for the child to be successfully included.

Setting SENDCos can use their own transition plan format or the ILDP Review meeting form.  This plan can be used when the child moves onto another Early Years setting.  It is also useful and meaningful for parents/carers, if a One Page Profile is completed about the child with SEND at regular intervals, to inform all the adults working with the child, how best to support them.

It is important to plan and arrange a transition meeting for young children with identified SEND starting school, please follow the recommendations laid out in the Early Years Transition Charter and timeline.