Some children and young people need input from a range of services, and the SENCO may well be the person who takes on the responsibility for pulling together the support from different agencies and keeping open the lines of communication. Since the implementation of Every Child Matters, and the introduction of extended services through schools and nurseries, there is a wider range of people working with pupils with SEN than ever before. The ‘Team Around the Child’ (TAC)…
These Professionals work together within the early years setting, and in partnership with the child’s family to provide support and services meeting…
The settings procedures on reporting and line of responsibility in regards to meeting the welfare of children are, if a child is at risk the deputy manager and manager are informed then social services are contacted. In regards to SENCO the child’s key person will have the responsibility to report their observations with…
E8 describe the role of two other professionals who support the needs of children with special needs and their families…
* SENCO (Special Education Needs Co-Ordinator) – a key person within a childcare or school setting who can identify children with learning difficulties and know how to best support them. They work closely with outside agencies to deliver a full care plan.…
It is vital to prepare a child that is going into local authority care to ensure that the transition goes as smoothly as possible, if there is not much planning and preparation when a child goes into care then the effects will be harder on them. The child's key worker (social worker) will work in partnership with many individuals and agencies to ensure that the child is prepared as possible. The social worker will work in partnership with…
A multi-agency approach is a range of professionals including speech therapists, Special Educational Needs Co-coordinator (SENCO) , key workers or physiotherapists etc. that all work together and support children and their families in provisions that need to be made in order to support a child with special needs. Working within close partnership with parents is expected for all babies and children within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)…
Multi-agency working brings together practitioners and working professionals to provide a way of working together to support children and young people through their development. This is very important in ensuring that each and every child is supported in their development to all achieve the same outcomes. Agency professionals such as GP’s, SENCO’s, speech and language specialists and social services and external organisations such as dance teachers, children’s entertainers, sporting groups etc all integrate their support to help aid young people and children in their learning development. By up-keeping communication and working together, the childs primary needs are being met and maintained and any additional support that a child or young person may need can be dealt with and extended in an appropriate way that best suits the needs of that child.…
Every week I am handed a weekly planner, this covers the areas of personal, social, emonitional and physical development. Every Tuesday I take a social group outside with child 1 to work on their development. I have to document the learning intention and write notes on the outcome of the activity. Here i can document any other concerns for both the teacher and SENCO to see.…
The Senco in an educational setting give support to children and families with special needs this person/s is also responsible for identification of special needs. This might include people like teaching assistants or advisors to provide support and train staff. Youth justice this is based on children with behavioural problems these people will work with them and social worker to help them. Social workers are there to help vulnerable children and young people and their families this might include children on the child protection register or disabled difficulties. They provide teachers and practitioners with aimed support programmes for that child once they have identified the child’s needs. A specialist nurse provides support for the family and child especially if that child suffers from medical conditions that need specialist care and also health visitors come under this title for measuring and assessing a child’s development. A psychiatrist is a doctor who is trained in mental health problems. This person works alongside other professionals to help diagnose or support children and young people with mental health problems. Physiotherapist, this professional help children with their movement especially those who have little or no movement. They are trained to get the maximum movement and skill…
A care plan is then discussed for the child and the professionals involved will implement the relevant support to meet the needs of the child. Additional learning support staff – this can include Learning Support Assistants who work with targeted children on the special educational needs register where they have been identified as having learning difficulties. They work with these children to provide 121 or small group interventions focusing on the key areas of…
A range of professionals can be called upon to help and support families and children whose development is delayed. Some work independently but the majority work in a multi agency partnership so that the child receives the best holistic care possible.…
The STC responsibility is to fight for children’s rights and make sure that they are and will reach their full potential.…
Understanding the way in which children may be abused by others, being aware of the signs that a child may be experiencing harm and following the appropriate procedures if abuse is suspected. This includes all staff having safeguarding and child protection training and knowing the policies and procedures within the setting. Also have a member of staff who is SENCO trained.…
Amartya Sen, an Indian economist and political philosopher, first articulated the “The Capability Approach” in the late 1970s and 1980s in order to create an alternative and new framework of thinking and evaluating issues of poverty, development, well-being and equality by embracing complexity, plurality and individualism with the aim to not overlook anything. Through his creation of the Capability Approach, Sen shows that his primary concern is to create a pluralistic conception of poverty and development. His intention was to create a framework of thinking and evaluating that would embrace the complexity that comes with issues that of well-being and development. In other words Sen believes that reality, poverty, people and development are intrinsically complex and therefore an intricate and pluralistic evaluation of these matters should be adopted. This creation of an alternative framework that embraces complexity and individualism also acts as a criticism of traditional and other approaches to evaluating human well-being. Sen’s focus on creating a pluralistic conception of development and wellbeing that focuses on opportunities lies in stark contrast with previous and more traditional schools of thought on these issues which are mostly concerned with outcomes, commodities, standards of living and justice as fairness (Walker & Unterhalter, 2007:4). Sen states that he is against Welfarist and Utilitarian approaches and any other income/resourced based theory on development (Robeyns, 2003:9) because he disagrees with how these theories tend to rely on exclusively one aspect of development. Sen states how he is much more concerned with the information that these theories tend to exclude. The Capability Approach also criticizes how economists’ have a tendency to focus on utility in their theoretical work which often translates in to a focus on income in applied work. For Sen, income is only a rough proxy. As well as criticizing the income perspective on poverty,…