Our guide for parents and carers is co-produced with other services and is designed to help you understand how children and young people with SEND are supported in settings and schools through the Graduated Approach which involves four stages:
- assess
- plan
- do
- review
Assess
Your child’s difficulties must be assessed so that the right support can be provided. This will include:
- asking for your views
- talking to professionals who work with your child, such as their teacher
- looking at records and other information
In order to make sure that any support provided continues to meet your child’s needs, we will review the situation regularly - that might mean getting advice and further assessment from someone like an educational psychologist, a specialist teacher or a health professional.
Plan
Your school or other setting needs to agree - with your involvement - how your child will benefit from any support they get through a SEND support plan. A date to review any support should also be agreed so that they can check to see how well things are going and whether the outcomes are being achieved. A
Do
The setting will put the planned support into place. The teacher remains responsible for working with your child on a daily basis, but the SENDCO and any support staff or specialist teaching staff involved in providing support should work closely to track your child’s progress and check that the support is being effective.
Review
The support your child receives should be reviewed at the time agreed in the plan. Together, you can decide if the support is having a positive impact, what outcomes have been, or are being, achieved and if any changes should be made.
If the child has not made expected progress after two 4 to 6 week cycles then you may want further advice, please contact the SEND Support Service via email.