Suffolks Early Years and Childcare Service supports early years group providers, childminders and school nurseries to deliver their Graduated Approach for children with SEND in a child-centred way by delivering a range of activities known as The Graduated Response. This offer includes resources, training, observation, assessment, interventions and funding.
SENCOs have told us that they value this offer to support their work in delivering the assess, plan, do, review process in settings. To help summarise and share the range of activities on offer we have developed this handy one page summary to remind practitioners of the different elements of the support available. Click on the image below to access a version you can download.
Where a child is identified as having special educational needs, the SEND Code of Practice is clear that settings should take action to remove any barriers to learning and put effective special educational provision in place – this is called SEN support.
This support should take the form of a four-part “Assess, Plan, Do, Review” cycle; where actions are tried, reviewed and revised as necessary in line with the child’s needs. In education settings, this is known as the graduated approach and in Suffolk, we have set up a process to support this approach called the graduated response.
Further information about implementing the graduated approach in your provision can be found in the Graduated Response Information Sheet for Providers