Special Educational Needs
Local Offer
Brighton and Hove Local Authority must publish a Local Offer, setting out in one place information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEND or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. In setting out what they ‘expect to be available’, local authorities should include provision which they believe will actually be available.
The Local Offer has two key purposes:
•To provide clear, comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date information about the available provision and how to access it, and
• To make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving disabled children and those with SEN and their parents, and disabled young people and those with SEN, and service providers in its development and review.
https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disabilities
Our Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator (SENDCO) is Alison Wakeford.
Early Explorers make sure that its provision meets the needs of each individual child by taking into account any special needs a child may have. The setting works to the requirements of the 1993 Education Act and the SEN Code of Practice 2014. We liaise closely with parents if there any concerns either from home or at the setting.
We recognise the vital role of parents and carers in the identification, assessment and response to their child's special educational needs. we will work in true partnership with parents/ carers, valuing their views and contributions, and keeping them fully informed in their child's education.
We are committed to effective collaboration between all agencies working with a child and follow a multi-disciplinary approach to meeting a child's special educational needs.