The Learning Support Team is able to provide schools with a range of services to help them in developing and delivering support for pupils with Special Educational Needs.
Primary and secondary schools can request assessment and advice on resources and strategies for individual pupils, help with whole school policy and planning issues, training sessions for teachers and learning support assistants and specialist teaching for individuals or small groups of pupils.
Specific service standards
Members of the Learning Support Team all have specialist SEN qualifications in addition to the experience and knowledge gained through their teaching careers. Team members' knowledge of developments in SEN is constantly updated through both team and individual training.
Service Level Agreements will be negotiated with schools.
Services for which money is retained centrally
Assessment and advice for primary schools on individual pupil's special educational needs especially regarding literacy and numeracy.
- Parental consultation following the assessment of a pupil with literacy, numeracy or learning difficulties.
- Assisting schools in identifying other sources of information or advice.
- Teaching at one of our mini-bases or on a peripatetic basis for primary school pupils with severe specific literacy/numeracy difficulties.
Services for which money is delegated to schools
The following services are available for purchase
Teaching support for primary and secondary pupils with a statement of special educational needs.
- Teaching support for primary and secondary pupils with specific literacy and/or numeracy difficulties
- Teaching support for pupils with a range of learning difficulties, including pupils with Down's Syndrome.
- School-based in-service training for teachers, learning support assistants and governors
- Assessment and advice for secondary schools on individual pupil's special educational needs, especially regarding literacy and numeracy.
