The majority of children and young people can have their needs met through high quality inclusive teaching, which includes using adaptive teaching strategies, identifying needs and intervening early using evidence-based interventions.
Guidance to help all Solihull schools with developing inclusive practice, and their graduated approach to identifying and meeting the additional support needs, including SEND, is detailed here.
What does the graduated approach mean for parent carers?
We have split this area into different sections; whole-school support- includes guidance for senior leaders in schools on inclusive practice, focusing on school culture and values, policies to support inclusive practice, shared leadership, workforce development and ideas for monitoring inclusive practice in a school.
Then targeted at classroom practitioners and Special Educational needs Coordinators, as well as school leaders’, guidance for a Graduated Approach (GA) to supporting pupils with SEND is structured across the four areas of need, matching the SEND Code of Practice.
In each section, guidance is included on quality first teaching (QFT) - adaptive teaching strategies, reasonable adjustments, identifying a special educational need and then supporting children and young people with SEND through the Graduated Approach, assess/ plan/do/review cycles of support.
This guidance is not intended to be an exhaustive list of support that will be available in a school, or to be used as a checklist. The guidance is available to be used by schools to develop and review their offer to all pupils on an annual basis and in creating their School Information Report which outlines their best practice offer for pupils with SEND.
Children and young people’s needs can be met through good quality first teaching and through identifying needs and intervening early using evidence based interventions.
Guidance as to what we would expect to see in all Solihull schools as part of their Graduated Approach to identifying and meeting additional support needs, including SEND, will be detailed across the four areas of need in the SEND Code of Practice.