Quality First Teaching
A YouTube video has been produced by Oxfordshire’s School Inclusion Team (OXSIT) about Quality First Teaching to help schools maximise progress for all learners.
Visit www.oxsit.org.uk to find out more about how the team work with schools to improve outcomes for learners vulnerable to under-achievement.
SEN Support
SEN Support in Oxfordshire Schools and Settings provides a clear and consistent approach across Oxfordshire. This guidance has been written for settings and schools (both maintained and academies) at foundation years and primary (doc format, 441Kb) and secondary levels (doc format, 250Kb).
Please use the updated sections for Social, Emotional and Mental Health for Foundation stage (pdf format, 400KB) and SEHM years 1-13 (pdf format, 400KB)
- Guidance on record keeping and use of data (pdf format, 17Kb)
- SEN Support: profile and outcomes planning - template (docx format, 27Kb)
Local Offer - Guidance and procedures for providers
Early years
- Guidance for Early Years SEN Support (pdf format, 247Kb)
- Early years SEN toolkit
- Early Years SEN Support and Outcomes Plan (docx format, 22Kb)
- Early Years SEN Support Review (docx format, 22Kb)
- EYFS Progress Monitoring (docx format, 28Kb)
- 'Early Years SEN - Applying for Inclusion Funding (pdf format, Kb)
Funding
- SEN funding for early years providers, schools and colleges (pdf format, 157Kb)
- Guidance for settings and schools on applying for additional funding (pdf format, 70Kb)
- Additional funding application form (settings and primary schools) (docx format, 202Kb)
- Additional funding application form - Renewal (docx format, 73Kb)
- Early Years SEN Support: Application for additional funding (docx format, 81Kb)
- Guidance on Early Years SEN Requests for Additional Funding (pdf format, 407Kb)
- Early Years SEN Support: Renewal Application for Additional Funding (docx format, 73Kb)
Education, health and care plans
Person centered planning
‘All About Me’ person-centred planning guidance (pdf format, 378Kb)
Requesting an EHC Needs Assessment
- Evidence checklist for schools and colleges to support EHC Plan (pdf format, 58Kb)
- EHC Plan template (docx format, 185Kb)
- Guidance about health advice for EHC plans (pdf format, 212KB)
- Personal budgets policy (pdf format, 81Kb)
- Setting school and college EHC application KS4 and above (docx format, 83Kb)
- Early Years setting report for EHC application (docx format, 59Kb)
- Primary School report for EHC application (docx format, 59Kb)
- Secondary school report for EHC application KS3 (docx format, 58Kb)
- Setting, school and college report for EHC application KS4 and above (docx format, 59Kb)
- Setting, school and college report for EHC application - Form B (docx format, 48Kb)
- Early Years EHC application (docx format, 86Kb)
- Parent or Young Person EHC application (docx format, 98Kb)
- Primary School EHC application (docx format, 85Kb)
- Secondary School EHC application KS3 (docx format, 86Kb)
- EHC Needs Assessment medical questionnaire (docx format, 55Kb)
Apply for an assessment for an EHCP
- Individual provision tracker (docx format, 82Kb)
- Pupil profile secondary (docx format, 43Kb)
- Pupil profile primary (docx format, 43Kb)
- Provision management template (docx format, 43Kb)
Annual reviews
- Annual review guidance for schools (doc format, 52Kb)
- Notification to LA of an Annual Review (doc format, 54Kb)
- Sample letter inviting parents to an Annual Review (doc format, 16Kb)
- Sample letter inviting a young person to an Annual Review (doc format, 16Kb)
- Parent comment form for Annual Review (doc format, 217Kb)
- Child/young person comment form for Annual Review (doc format, 221Kb)
- School report form for Annual Review (doc format, 221Kb)
- Record of an Annual Review meeting of an EHCP (doc format, 226Kb)
- Parent evaluation of an Annual Review (doc format, 226Kb)
- Young person evaluation of an Annual Review (doc format, 220Kb)
- College or Post 16 provider's report for annual review of EHCP (docx format, 63Kb)
- Letter to professionals for Annual Review with professional report (docx format, 78Kb)
The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) have developed the following guidance:
- Annual Review timeline for professionals https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/independent_support/ARtimetable.cleancopy.final.pdf
- Annual Review factsheet https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/independent_support/ARfactsheets.general.cleancopy.FINAL.pdf
- An animation explaining the Annual Review process https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/independent-support/resources/annual-review-process-guidance-and-training
- A short E-learning training module explaining the Annual Review Process is available on the CDC website. Please follow the link for the animation and look beneath the picture, to access this training you will need to complete a quick and simple signing up process (please note that the target audience is Independent Supporters, but it is a useful resource for everyone)
School SEN information report
As part of the Local Offer requirements all maintained schools and academies must publish an annual information report on their website from September 2014. It must be updated at least annually. Oxfordshire has produced a template and ideas of what to include in the information report. School SEN Information Report skeleton (doc format, 23Kb)
The Code of Practice (June 2014) extract (pdf format, 144Kb) details what must be included in the SEN information report. Schools are able to set this out in any way they choose but the information provided must be easily accessible by parents and young people and written in clear, straightforward language.
These are examples of how some schools have presented their information reports:
Primary
- www.northbourne-school.org.uk/sen/
- www.bensoncofeprimary.org.uk/perch/resources/sen-information-report.pdf
Secondary
Training
All training courses can be found and applied for via the eBooking system; search for the course by topic e.g. SEN or INSET
Strategy policy and guidance
- Schools Accessibility Strategy - revised 2017 (pdf format, 1.3Mb)
- Accessibility Strategy Toolkit for schools (pdf format, 425Kb)
- Attention deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) protocol
- Late stage transfer and/or requests to repeat a year - policy guidelines (pdf format, 69Kb)
- Literacy difficulties policy and advice
- Model equality policy and plan (doc format, 59Kb)
- Personal care policy document (pdf format, 1.3Mb)
- Early Years - children with English as an additional language (pdf format, 456Kb)
Examples of inter-authority SEN top-up funding guidance packs
- Inclusion Development Programme key messages (pdf format, 55Kb)
- Reading comprehension (pdf format, 2.7Mb)
A resource package to support the development of reading comprehension. - Self harm: guidelines for staff within school and residential settings (pdf format, 197Kb)
- The Equality Act 2010 and Schools (DFE, 2014)