Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

A Graduated Approach

All Early Years Settings must adhere to the SEND Code of Practice. This can be found below

SEND Code of Practice January 2015

All Early Years Settings have a responsibility to provide a universal level of support to meet individual children’s needs. The Ordinary Available document outlines what provision Wokingham expects settings to provide.

Ordinarily Available Booklet

Ordinarily Available Information Slides

Please see below provider guidance for the support available for Early Years Settings with children with special educational needs and disabilities.

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Requesting SEND Support

The Early Years Team provide EY SEND support to settings.

Support can be requested by completing the form below and will be triaged by the team on a weekly basis. All requests MUST be accompanied by a parental consent form if the request is regarding an individual child.

You may be offered

A surgery slot, via Microsoft Teams, with an Educational Psychologist
A discussion with the Early Years SENCo (via Microsoft Teams, phone call or face to face)
Setting visit to include an observation and consultation with parents and setting staff by the Early Years SENCo
Setting visit to include an observation and consultation with parents and setting staff by an Educational Psychologist
EHCP implementation meeting with staff and parents and Early Years SENCO
Support to chair an EHCP Annual Review
Signposted to training
Follow up advice/visit from the Early Years and Childcare team.

SEND Support request form

SEND Support request parental consent

Both of these forms should be sent to

CSEPA-EducationalPsychologyAdmin@wokingham.gov.uk

You will be informed of the outcome via e-mail.

Early Years Inclusion Funding (EYIF)

The EYIF is a subsidy, intended to be used as a contribution towards additional support for children with identified additional and ongoing needs, where that support is recognised to be over and above that of their typically developing peers.

The Early Years Inclusion Funding can be applied for by Early Years providers in the Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI) sector, Maintained Nursery Classes (F1) and Childminders in receipt of Early Years Free Entitlement Funding to support children with additional needs to enable them to access the curriculum.

To apply for EYIF please use the form below and send it to eyif@wokingham.gov.uk

EYIF Application Form

EYIF Application form - example

All applications need to be seen by and signed by a parent/carer and be accompanied by a completed EYJD Grid and Early Years Individual Education Plan (EYIEP).

Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP)

Requesting an Education Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA)

Requests for a needs assessment can be made by anyone who knows the child and thinks an assessment may be necessary, including doctors, health visitors, Early Years settings and parents.

If parents make the request please use the form below.

Parent Application form to request an EHCNA

If the Early Years setting is making the request they should use the EYIF/setting request/evidence form

Early Years setting request form for an EHCNA or Setting evidence for an EHCNA

If schools and colleges are making the request please complete the Setting Request for an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment form.

School and college EHC needs assessment request form

All forms should be submitted to :

SENDEHCassessments@wokingham.gov.uk
EHCP Assessment Flowchart

EHCP-Annual Review

EHCP Annual Review - all children with an EHCP must have a review every 6 months if under age five - settings have a responsibility to plan and organise the annual review.

KEY DATES

6 weeks before the meeting: send out invitations, contact SEND for a word version of the EHCP for editing
2 weeks before the meeting: circulate reports
10 days after the meeting: send EYFS annual review report form and any reports received to to SEND team

Documents to support the annual review

1. Annual review model invitation

2. Agenda - person centred review agenda

3. Parent's contribution template – to be sent to parents for parents to complete prior to review
4. EYFS annual review report form to be returned to SEND together with an annotated EHCP outlining changes to be made and all reports submitted.