Key resources for setting SENCOs

Assessment and tracking progress of children with SEND

• EY SEND ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT 2024 - Printable
• EY SEND ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT 2024 - Electronic

• EY SEND ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT - Appendix One - Printable
• EY SEND ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT - Appendix One - Electronic

• Additional Tracking Attainment Levels (Word)
• Additional Tracking Attainment Levels – Printable (PDF)

• Early Years SEND Policy Example

• Inclusive Early Years Practice
• EY Graduated Approach Revised Edition 2024
  
• Reintegration Plan for Early Years Pupils
• Individual Risk Assessment 1
• Individual Risk Assessment 2

• What is a SEND register
• SEND-Register-Template
• individual SEND record
• individual SEND record example
• Example letter: Placing Child on SEND Register

• • Solihull EY SEND Support Plan BLANK
  • Solihull EY SEND Support Plan Example
  • Target Plan blank
  • S&L target plan template
  • Target plan - how to complete
  • Individual Support Plan
  • Writing SMART Targets
  • Smart Target - Examples
  • Target builder

Applying for Early Years Inclusion Funding

• Inclusion Fund (solihull.gov.uk)
• EYIF application Example
• Guidance on completing an application for EYIF

Applying for Disability Access Fund

• Disability Access Fund (DAF) (solgrid.org.uk)
• Application form for DAF (Parent declaration form)

Applying for additional funding to support a child with an EHCP

• Individual Costed Provision Mapping
• Early years costed provision map
• Costed provision Maps PVIs

• Sharing-Concerns-with-Families-in-Early-Years-Settings
• Top tips for managing difficult conversations
• Emerging SEND Parent meeting record

We have also created the following 'parent guide' leaflets that you may find useful to share with parents/carers.

• A Parent's Guide to 'Reasonable Adjustments'
• A Parent's Guide to 'The Graduated Approach'
• A Parent's Guide to Specialist Provision for Early Years in Solihull

• The-Childs-Voice-final-March-2021
• 'The voice of the child'.  - A short film by Norfolk County Council showing how observation and communication tools can be used to understand a child's needs and wishes.

You can find information about SEND training offered by 'Dingley's Promise' and EYSEND Partnership by following this link.

The following websites also offer free webinars and resources that may support your CPD for staff. However, as they are external websites, we do not control their content.

• West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership offers free webinars which provide an introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma Informed Practice.
• NASEN offers some free resources, webinars and online courses for Early Years settings.
• Anna Freud offers free training on a range of subjects including 'Birth trauma', 'Attachment' and 'Managing challenging behaviour'.
• Contact, a charity for families of disabled children offer free webinars for parents as well as webinars for professionals.
• Speech & Language UK in conjunction with EYSEND partnership are offering free training for people who work with families of children in the Early Years.
• Council for Disabled Children in conjunction with EYSEND partnership are offering free training for Early Years professionals and parents across England.

We also have the following documents to support you to audit, plan and record SEND CPD for staff.

• EYFS_SEND_PVI’s_ CPD Audit_and planning Tool
• Staff_training_record_template

• Setting SENCO Annual planner
• Setting SENCO Annual planner
• ACEs Trauma and ASD Comparison
• Glossary of SEND terms