Resources

• Hertfordshire County Council Targeted Services Offer to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

• Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire’s Emotional Wellbeing and Behaviour Strategy 2020 – 2023

• The Hertfordshire SEND Toolkit – guidance for anyone who has an interest in promoting the wellbeing and achievement of Hertfordshire’s children and young people with SEND.

  Click here for the SEND Toolkit Second Edition

• Hertfordshire’s Six Outcome Bees

Coronavirus Bereavement Guides

• A guide for adults
• A guide for adults – easy read
• A guide for children/young people
• A guide for parents and carers supporting children who have been bereaved
• A guide for teenagers – easy read

• Hertfordshire SEND Quality Offer

• Hertfordshire Quality SEND Offer

• Benchmark and self-evaluation tool

• Hertfordshire Social, Emotional and Mental Health Quality Offer

• Hertfordshire Speech, Language and Communication Needs Quality Offer

• Hertfordshire Autism Quality Offer

• Hertfordshire’s Professional Promise – Hertfordshire’s promise for how children, young people & young adults with SEND and/or disabilities and their families should be treated.

• SEND Code of Practice – Statutory guidance for organisations which work with and support children and young people who have Special Educational Needs or Disabilities.

• SEND Code of Practice – A guide for parents and carers – guidance for parents and carers of children and young people aged 0-25 years who have SEN or a disability, describing how the new system that supports those with SEN is intended to work.

• SEND Telephone Advice Lines – includes key phone numbers for the EP service, Specialist Advisory teams, the Attendance team, SENDIASS and Kids Hub.

• ISL Contacts – Integrated Services for Learning DSPL areas 7 (St Albans) and 8 (Dacorum)

• ISL Statutory SEND Duty Lines

• ISL SEND Advice Lines for Parents/Carers

• DSPL7 Strategic aims and priorities – summary

DSPL7 SEN Updates (Professionals)

• SEN Newsletter Update Part One
• SEN Newsletter Update Part Two
• SEN Newsletter Update Part Three
• DSPL7 SEND Update – Issue 1 (September 2020)
• DSPL7 SEND Update – Issue 2 (October 2020)
• DSPL7 SEND Update – Issue 3 (November 2020)
• DSPL7 SEND Update – Issue 4 (December 2020)

DSPL7 SENco Handbook & Appendices

• SENco Handbook
  

• Appendices1 – Professional Promise2 – ISL Leaflet3 – ISL Baseline Assessment Guidance doc

  3 – ISL Baseline Assessment Form pdf

  3 – ISL Service Request form

  4 – SEND strategy on a page

  5 – Findings from the 2015 OfSTED SEN Area Inspection

  6 – DSPL7 Assessment Tools Leaflet

  6 – DSPL7 Resource Library Leaflet

  7 – DSPL NESSie Referral Form

  8 – DSPL7 Male Mentoring Support Flyer

  8 – Mentoring Referral Form

  8 – Post 16 Transition Coordinator Referral Form

  8 – SEND Family Worker Referral Form

  9 – Down Syndrome Referral Form

  10 – The Collett Referral Form

  11 – Cedars Integration Referral form Primary

  11 – Cedars Overview Form

  11 – Cedars Parental Consent

  11 – Cedars Referral Guidance

  11 – Cedars Risk Assessment

  12 – SEND Quality Offer Statement

  13 – Benchmark and Planning Tool

  14 – Herts Autism Quality Offer

  14 – SEMH Quality Offer

  14 – SLCN Quality Offer

  15 – Targeted Services offer for SEND

  16 – Hertfordshire 6 Outcomes Bees

  17 – Characteristics of Effective SEN provision

  18 – Strategic plan for SEN

  19 – MHL job description

  20 – Flowchart to map process for identifying pupils with SEND

  21 – Neurodiversity SpLD checklist – Primary w instructions

  22 – Memory and Organisation

  22 – Processing Speed

  23 – SEND telephone advice lines

  24 – SEN support in education 0-25 leaflet

  25 – Interventions overview

  26 – LHNF form guidance

  26 – Local High Needs Funding (LHNF) Application Form

  27 – EHC Needs Assessment Guidance

  27 – Notes from DSPL7 EHCP workshop

  28 – HCC guidance use part time timetables

  29 – Ten day absence reporting form

  30 – Hertfordshire Emotional Wellbeing and Behaviour Strategy 2020-23

  31 – HPCI Exclusions Parent Guidance

  32 – ESMA form for information required from schools

  33 – Therapies Advice Lines

  34 – CWP referral form

  35 – CAMHS School Information Form

  35 – Need to make a referral to specialist CAMHS

  36 – Palms Referral Form

  37 – Childrens hearing service referral form

  38 – Childrens community eye service referral form

DSPL7 SEND Update (Parents/carers)

• SEND Update – Issue 1 (October 2020)
• SEND Update – Issue 2 (December 2020)

• Managing the transition to home schooling

• Support during self-isolation

• Bereavement

• Returning to School

• Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Services and Resources for Professionals and Families

• Emotionally Based School Avoidance: Executive Summary

• EBSA School Guidance March 2021

• EBSA School Guidance Forms