The SEND framework contains information to support you in implementing the assess, plan, do, review cycle in your setting. Access resources, training and specialist support within each broad area of need to support your staff in meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND.
Use the SEND Indicators Tool to help you identify detailed information about a child's progress and needs. This is a strength-based tool to help you identify next steps in learning and development. This process should be completed first. The documents below can then help you plan and implement provisions to meet those needs
Oxfordshire’s Ordinarily Available SEND Provision
Ordinarily available SEND provision provides guidance on the provision that mainstream schools need to make for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities in Oxfordshire.
Inclusive Support Series
Use the strengths-based Inclusive Support Series to help you to implement provision and reasonable adjustments for children and young people with SEND. They can be used to facilitate conversations with class teachers about a specific pupil(s) and to develop inclusive practice.
The SENDCO Helpdesk
The team of Specialist SENDCos and Specialist Early Years advisors are on hand to provide working SENDCos with strategies, signposting, early intervention guidance and universal support for primary age/stage and early years children. The team can support with concerns at an individual or whole school/setting level, either by email, phone or TEAMS Meeting.
Education, health and care needs assessments
Education, Health and Care needs assessment (EHCNA) and additional funding | Oxfordshire Schools
Person-centred planning
‘All About Me’ person-centred planning guidance (pdf format, 378 KB)
Annual reviews
Education and Health Care Plans (EHCPs) | Oxfordshire Schools
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 which can be found on the link above.
The Code of Practice (June 2014) extract (pdf format, 144 KB) 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.
Training
All training courses can be found and applied for via the education services platform. The SEND Framework also contains information in the DO section about training options within each specific needs.
A summary of training courses for specific roles and broad areas of need can be found here.
Induction, training, development for support staff materials can be found Training and development for support staff
Guidance
- Attention deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) protocol
- Review and update currently in progress
- GuidanceonEducatingChildrenwithanEHCPlanOutofYearGroupinMainstreamSchools.docx
- Oxfordshire Literacy Difficulties
- Personal care policy document (pdf format, 1.3 MB)
Early years
- Guidance for Early Years SEN Support (pdf format, 247 KB)
- Early Years SEN Support and Outcomes Plan (docx format, 22 KB)
- Early Years SEN Support Review (docx format, 22 KB)
- EYFS Progress Monitoring (docx format, 28 KB)
- Early Years SEN - Applying for Inclusion Funding (pdf format, KB)
Early Years Funding
- SEN funding for early years providers, schools and colleges (pdf format, 157 KB)
- Guidance for settings and schools on applying for additional funding (pdf format, 70 KB)
- Additional funding application form (settings and primary schools) (docx format, 202 KB)
- Additional funding application form - Renewal (docx format, 73 KB)
- Early Years SEN Support: Application for additional funding (docx format, 89 KB)
- Guidance on Early Years SEN Requests for Additional Funding (pdf format, 707 KB)
- Early Years SEN Support: Renewal Application for Additional Funding (docx format, 73 KB)
Education, health and care plans
Person-centred planning
‘All About Me’ person-centred planning guidance (pdf format, 378 KB)
Requesting an EHC Needs Assessment
- Guidance for settings on EHCNA requests (pdf format, 256 KB)
- Evidence checklist for schools and colleges to support EHC Plan (pdf format, 58 KB)
- Guidance about health advice for EHC plans (pdf format, 212 KB)
- Personal budgets policy (pdf format, 81 KB)
- Setting school and college EHC application KS4 and above (docx format, 83 KB)
- Early Years setting report for EHC application (docx format, 59 KB)
- Primary School report for EHC application (docx format, 59 KB)
- Secondary school report for EHC application KS3 (docx format, 58 KB)
- Setting, school and college report for EHC application KS4 and above (docx format, 59 KB)
- Setting, school and college report for EHC application - Form B (docx format, 48 KB)
- Early Years EHC application (docx format, 86 KB)
- Parent or Young Person EHC application (docx format, 98 KB)
- Primary School EHC application (docx format, 85 KB)
- Secondary School EHC application KS3 (docx format, 86 KB)
- EHC Needs Assessment medical questionnaire (docx format, 55 KB)
- EHC Needs Assessment consent form (docx format, 31 KB)
Annual reviews
- Annual review guidance for schools (docx format, 52 KB)
- Notification to LA of an Annual Review (doc format, 54 KB)
- Sample letter inviting parents to an Annual Review (doc format, 16 KB)
- Sample letter inviting a young person to an Annual Review (doc format, 16 KB)
- Parent comment form for Annual Review (doc format, 217 KB)
- Child/young person comment form for Annual Review (doc format, 221 KB)
- School report form for Annual Review (doc format, 221 KB)
- Record of an Annual Review meeting of an EHCP (doc format, 226 KB)
- Parent evaluation of an Annual Review (doc format, 226 KB)
- Young person evaluation of an Annual Review (doc format, 220 KB)
- College or Post 16 provider's report for annual review of EHCP (docx format, 63 KB)
- Letter to professionals for Annual Review with professional report (docx format, 78 KB)
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, 23 KB)
The Code of Practice (June 2014) extract (pdf format, 144 KB) 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.
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
Student-facing Support Staff (SfSS) induction
Following Oxfordshire’s self-evaluation summary around workforce development and early intervention, Student-facing Support Staff and School leaders were surveyed to understand the recruitment and retention issues that schools face.
The Student-facing Support Staff (SfSS) documents and accompanying induction pack were created to support ongoing professional development.
- School-based Support Staff Induction Pack Template (docx format, 205 KB)
- School-based Support Staff induction checklist (docx format, 327 KB)
- New starter skills and knowledge profile tool (NSKPT) (docx format, 189 KB)
- Skills and knowledge self-evaluation tool (SKSET) (docx format, 189 KB)
Strategy policy and guidance
- Schools Accessibility Strategy - revised 2017 (pdf format, 1.3 MB)
- Accessibility Strategy Toolkit for schools (pdf format, 425 KB)
- Attention deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) protocol LINK
- Late stage transfer and/or requests to repeat a year - policy guidelines (pdf format, 69 KB)
- Literacy difficulties policy and advice
- Model equality policy and plan (doc format, 59 KB)
- Personal care policy document (pdf format, 1.3 MB)
- Early Years - children with English as an additional language (pdf format, 456 KB)
Examples of inter-authority SEN top-up funding guidance packs
- Special schools (pdf format, 402 KB)
- Mainstream (pdf format, 343 KB)
- Inclusion Development Programme key messages (pdf format, 55 KB)
- Reading comprehension (pdf format, 2.7 MB)
A resource package to support the development of reading comprehension. - Self-harm: guidelines for staff within school and residential settings (pdf format, 197 KB)
- The Equality Act 2010 and Schools (DFE, 2014)