Resources for Sencos
Signposting to guidance, training and services for Sencos.
Safeguarding
Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Early Help Assessment
Early Help assessment - information for professionals
Funding
- Additional funding for children with significant medical and health needs to access their education
- Early years inclusion funding and High Needs Matrix
- Disability access fund (early years)
- School top-up funding for SEN and High Needs Matrix
EHC Plans
Annual review documents
- Annual review form
- Child contribution form - Annual EHC review
- Older child contribution form - Annual EHC review
- Parental contribution form - Annual EHC review
Training and support
- Award SENCO (NASENCO) PG Certificate of Education (Special Educational Needs Coordination)
- National Association of Special Educational Needs (NASEN) Professional learning
- NASEN Collaborative Learning for SEN: the role of the SENCO - 2020
- NASEN: SENCO Induction Pack - Supporting you at the start of your journey
- Herefordshire CPD online for Pre school Sencos. Search for Senco.
Transitions
- Transition into primary school
- Transition pack: from pre-school to reception for children with SEND
- The right to go: managing continence in schools and early years settings
- Guidance on the admission of summer born children - GOV.UK
SEND services and referral forms
- Educational psychology
- SEN team - contact 01432 260178 or email senteam@herefordshire.gov.uk
- Child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS)
- H3 (Hub, Home, Hospital) Teaching Team
- Speech and language therapy
- Specialist teachers
- Early years advisors
- Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
Services referred to via Single Point of Referral Team (SPORT)
Referrals for the following services are all made through SPORT. The SPORT referral forms and information leaflets are available on the Wye Valley Trust website:
- Community Paediatrician
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Children with disabilities social care team
- Community Children's nurses
Graduated approach
- NASEN's 'SEN support and the graduated approach', 2014. A quick guide to ensuring that every child or young person gets the support they require to meet their needs.
- Webcast: 'SEN support and the graduated approach', NASEN, 2020
- Intervention guidance for SEND in schools and other educational settings Herefordshire Council's guidance to help schools and other educational settings in Herefordshire meet the needs of children and young people (CYP) with SEND. Use it to guide and inform practice and to plan individual educational programmes for children with SEND.
WikiMe
WikiMe introductory animation on Youtube
- WikiMe: a family held digital information sharing and communication tool
- WikiMe Herefordshire interim evaluation report April 2019
Further information
Local
- The Local Offer: The local offer sets out the support, services and information available for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)
- Information pack - children's wellbeing directorate - services and contacts. Updated summer 2018
- Exclusion from school resources
National
- National Association of Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
- Department for Education hosted SENCO forum
- CDC: Disabled Children and the Equality Act 2010
- SEND Code of practice January 2015 - Includes 6.79:SEN information report, 6.84: The role of SENCO in schools
- CDC briefing: Children and Families Act 2014
- National Autistic Society
- Early Years Guide to SEND Code of Practice
- CDC children: SEN and Disability in the early years resources
Something missing?
If you can't find what you are looking for or you would like to provide feedback on this page, please email Elspeth Dixon elspeth.dixon1@herefordshire.gov.uk