Parents

Guidance on communicating sensitively with parents of children with SEND has been compiled by parents to support Early Years Practitioners when liaising with parents/carers in your setting.

There are numerous charities and support groups for parents of children with additional needs including:

• SEND Information Advice Service (SENDIASS) Worcestershire
• SEND Local Offer information on all services for SEND within Worcestershire

Inclusion Funding Explained

Find out more about the Inclusion Funding Early Years settings can claim to support children with SEND.  Written to help parents understand the process, with each individual level having a corresponding leaflet to set out the expectation of support for each level of need (known as the Graduated Response Level).

The leaflets available within the Parent Leaflet - Inclusion Funding explained document include:

• normal entitlement support
• graduated response 1
• graduated response 2
• graduated response 3
• graduated response 4
• graduated response 4+ challenge
• exceptional early years funding