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The Children with Disabilities Social Work Team supports children up to the age of 18 who have learning disabilities, a physical or sensory impairment, chronic and life threatening or life limiting illness or multiple disabilities whose needs cannot be met through support available at Universal, Targeted or Early Help support.

Useful information if you care for children or young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

Early help is a graduated approach to meeting children children’s needs. The purpose of early help is to put in the right support at the right time to support families as early as possible.

How to apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant.

Regular (usually termly but may be more frequent as required) multidisciplinary reviews are needed to share information, review progress, evaluate support strategies and interventions and make appropriate refinements.

Following the assessment stage, a plan is put in place to support the child/young person

Once concerns about a child/young person's social communication have been identified, more detailed assessment is likely to be needed to identify the specific areas of concern and potential barriers to learning.

For many children teaching adaptations and reasonable adjustments can be enough to enable a child to be successful within the classroom and thrive within wider school life.

Making reasonable adjustments to the classroom environment can make a significant difference for pupils with social communication needs.

The following teaching strategies are considered effective with pupils who have a social communication need, including autistic pupils

Class teachers should ensure that they have a good understanding of the child or young person’s developmental history and learning profile and that they have access to recent assessment information.

Children and young people with social communication needs will have many strengths, but they may have differences, or difficulties, in one or more areas

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The quality, effectiveness and impact of support must be reviewed at least termly with the SENDCo, teacher, parent/carer, and the child.

Following the assessment stage, a plan is put in place to support a child or young person. this will include setting SMART targets (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely).

Once concerns about a child/young person's SLCN have been identified, more detailed assessment is likely to be needed to identify the specific areas of concern and potential barriers to learning.

SLCN is often considered to be a ‘hidden disability’ and some aspects of SLCN are more visible than others – particularly associated with speech and sound.

Making reasonable adjustments to create a communication friendly environment can make a significant difference for pupils with SLCN.

The following teaching strategies are considered effective with pupils who have a speech, language and communications need

Class teachers should ensure that they have a good understanding of the child or young person’s developmental history and learning profile and that they have access to any recent assessment information.

Communication is the foundation of all life skills. The development of a child’s communication ability has an impact on their learning, school performance and employment prospects as well as on their emotional wellbeing and behaviour.

The West Midlands Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is a partnership of member agencies, including those defined under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004.

The aim of Prevent is to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent also supports the rehabilitation of people already involved in terrorism.

Enhanced reablement is a focussed, free of charge and short-term (up to six weeks) service for people aged 18 and over.

These case studies explain how enhanced reablement has helped people regain their independence.

There is no council tax reduction for empty properties, unless special conditions apply.

A family hub is a place where children, young people and their families can go when in need of help and support. The people working in the family hub will be from the council, NHS and voluntary partners, working in partnership with you and your community.

Our Family Hub guide on services and providers who can provide help and advice.

You can use these animations before considering an adult social care assessment, to get ideas for how you can stay independent at home.

How you can use our roadworks and traffic map.