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Support to help your child attend school
All parents, carers and schools want children to learn and be happy. However, all children are different and have different needs to enable them to reach their full potential. If your child is having difficulties attending school, then it is important that you as their…Local Offer Advisor - here to help!
The Local Offer aims to provide information about support services and opportunities for children and young people with SEND all in one place. Do you have a question about Suffolk's Local Offer? Need help finding information or want to discuss what services are available? You…Education, Health and Care Plan Provision: raising concerns about delivery
What to do when you are concerned that you or your child is not receiving the special educational needs provision that is written in their Education Health and Care plan. Special Educational Provision in Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan The local authority (“LA”) has…Specialist Provision: panels and processes
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – How we make decisions The decisions we make about the support our children and young people receive is central to our vision and can have a profound effect on their outcomes. We have been working over recent months to…Elective Home Education (EHE)
Educating your child at home Elective Home Education is where parents choose to exercise their legal right to take responsibility for educating their children at home or at home and in some other way which they choose, instead of sending them to school full time.…Primary Mental Health Workers for Schools in Suffolk
What are Primary Mental Health Workers (PMHWs)? Primary Mental Health Workers (PMHWs) offer consultation, support and guidance to school staff working with children and young people who are showing mild to moderate mental health concerns. School staff can contact their Primary Mental Health Worker if they…Suffolk Inclusion Support Line
The Suffolk Inclusion Support Line is an advice line, targeted at education settings as well as colleagues who work in health and social care, to help them to source the advice, guidance and information they need to meet the needs of children and young people…Specialist Education in Suffolk
Schools and settings are responsible for meeting the needs of a range of children and young people by providing high quality teaching and support which is adapted to the needs of individual children so they can make good progress in their learning and, in the…Alternative Provision
Alternative Provision or "AP" settings are places that provide education for children who can't, for various reasons, currently attend their school. The Government definition of Alternative Provision is as follows: Education arranged by local authorities for pupils who, because of exclusion, illness or other reasons, would not…Alternatives to mainstream education
The majority of children with special educational needs will have their needs met in their local mainstream school. However, for some children this is not possible or appropriate, and so other arrangements are sometimes made. Some other types of educational provision that might be considered…