SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

At The Sanctuary we have our SENCO Lead, Sarah-Jayne Allen.  SENCO’s undertake ‘the role of the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator’ training and complete additional, more specific training courses to enhance their knowledge.

 

The process in which the setting SENCO may become involved in your child’s nursery journey, is if your child has come to our setting with an additional need and/or some developmental concerns have been identified within our setting or maybe you have concerns and you raise these with your child’s key person.

 

Following this, we will ask to see parents and discuss these concerns and the action we feel is needed. This may mean some extra focus on particular areas of development supported by nursery and parents, it may mean monitoring behavior on an ABC chart to understand why the behavior is being displayed as behaviour is communication or it may mean a referral to an external agency such as Speech and Language Therapist (SALT), Community Pediatrician, Educational Psychologist etc.

 

If external agencies become involved and your child requires targets to be put in place, this will be done through a meeting with professionals involved, called a Team Around the Child (TAC) meeting. Within this meeting we will discuss your child’s needs and implement some targets. This information will be gathered in a document called an SEN and Early Support Plan.

 

The SEN and Early Support Plan will then be reviewed every 3 months. If your child requires an Education, Health, Care Plan (EHCP), we will support you throughout this process, identifying schools, writing reports and working with professionals to ensure your child gets the best support and outcome to suit their needs. We will follow the Graduated Approach- SEN Code of Practice 2015.

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