SandownSEND
SENCO: Mrs Linda Horrocks
What is the SEND Kent Local Offer?
The Local Offer was first introduced in the Green Paper (March 2011) as a local offer of all services available to support disabled children and children with SEN and their families. This easy to understand information will set out what is normally available in schools to help children with lower-level SEN as well as the options available to support families who need additional help to care for their child. Parents can find this information by following the link below.
What will it do?
The Kent framework will allow the Local Offer to provide parents/carers with information about how to access services in their area, and what they can expect from those services. With regard to Education, it will let parents/ carers and young people know how school and colleges will support them, and what they can expect across the local settings. During the last year, the Local Offer Steering Group has developed questions for schools, and trialed them with a small number of settings.
There are 14 questions, devised in consultation with parents/carers and other agencies, which reflect their concerns and interests. These will be answered by agencies, schools and colleges to provide information to parents and carers to enable them to make decisions about how to best support their child’s needs.
Click this link for more information on the Kent Local Offer
What are the Mainstream core standards?
High quality teaching, differentiated for individual pupils is the first step in responding to pupils who have or may have SEN. The Mainstream Core Standards are a suite of documents that informs and steers our SEN practice.
The Mainstream Core Standards reflect the 4 broad areas of need;
Communication and Interaction
Cognition and Learning
Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
Sensory and/or Physical Needs
Mainstream Core Standards - Parents guide
Speech and language at Sandown school
Our school works to support speech, language and communication with support from our NHS link speech & language therapist Alison Piccinini as well as specialist teachers. You child may come into contact with Alison Piccinini within their classroom or around school. The SENCo, Linda Horrocks, will have regular meetings with Alison Piccinini to discuss our school’s provision.
If you have any concerns about your child’s speech, language or communication skills, please speak to your child’s class teacher in the first instance.
If we have discussed a specific concern with you about your child’s speech, language or communication, or you have raised a concern, we will decide together whether to discuss this with our link therapist. You will be kept informed of any plans to support your child.
For more information please click the link below.
What is it? : The Balanced System Pathway
SLCN Support for Parents
Speech and language therapists recommend the following sites, to support Parents and Carers in understanding SLCN (Speech Language and Communication Needs)
ICAN https://www.icancharity.org.uk/
Afasic – voice for life https://www.afasic.org.uk/
For further information on SEND support and provision at Sandown School please see our policies.
