Every school, health setting, social worker and community support worker will:

• Consider the broad context of a child’s circumstances when they are identified as having difficulties with cognition and learning.
• Consider the social and emotional factors which may also play a part in learning difficulties, alongside underlying cognition.
• Focus on the importance of early language/reading with parents and provide training, workshops, and materials to refer to at home regarding phonics, schemes and reading expectations
• Provide appropriate reading materials to all children
• Provide access to the outreach service from Mayfield School which can be accessed through the differentiated approach (i.e., there is no need to have a plan)
• Involve parents, discuss barriers to learning and share strategies/training for parents to understand cognition and learning skills and how to develop these.
• Provide holistic assessments including home, mental health, wellbeing etc.
• Undertake baseline (starting) assessments so we know where we are starting from.

View and/or download the full Cognition and Learning Needs Toolkit