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.
Ordinarily Available SEND Provision
The 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.
Identifying and assessing needs
Use the SEND indicators tool (xlsx format, 95 KB) to help you identify detailed information about a child's progress and needs. This stage should be completed first and continuously reviewed. The documents below can then help you plan and implement provisions to meet those needs.
Inclusive support series
The inclusive support series are strengths-based tools to identify reasonable adjustments in learning settings. They can be used to facilitate conversations with class teachers about a specific pupil(s) and to develop inclusive practice. Please see the first in the series below
- Inclusive support series - Autism (docx format, 154KB)
- Inclusive support series - enabling inclusive environment (docx format, 157 KB)
- Inclusive support series - Maths (docx format, 162 KB)
- Inclusive support series - SEMH (Primary) (docx format, 158 KB)
- Inclusive support series - SEMH (Secondary) (docx format, 158 KB)
- Inclusive Support series - Speech, Language and Communication difficulties (docx format, 864 KB)
- Incusive support series - Literacy difficulties (docx format, 161 KB)
- Inclusive support series - Sensory processing (docx format, 388 KB)
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.
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 early years (docx format, KB) and primary and secondary levels (doc format, 900 KB).
- Guidance on record keeping and use of data (pdf format, 17 KB)
- Individual provision tracker (docx format, 82 KB)
- Pupil profile secondary (docx format, 43 KB)
- Pupil profile primary (docx format, 43 KB)
- Provision management template (docx format, 43 KB)
Local Offer - Guidance and procedures for providers
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)
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
- 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 (doc 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
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)