Newcastle's Graduated Response
How we meet SEND needs in Newcastle for Children and Young People (CYP) aged 0-25 in early years settings, schools and post 16 providers.
This is not intended to show a SEND pathway for individual support. It outlines the support available at various levels of the graduated response. Tier 4: EHCP Assessments and plans. Once all other support has been tried out All settings. For example, a child or young person may have an EHCP without accessing SEND ASAP or an ARP placement. It is also possible for a child or young person with an EHCP to access support via SEND ASAP.
The Descriptors of Need Guidance would be used to help identify individual needs and advise on level of provision.
Tier 1: Quality First Provision
Pre-school
- Universally available provision for early years
- Area SENCO support
- Early Years Inclusion Fund
School
Needs met within school resources (notional SEN budget)
- Universally Available Provision
- Inclusion Quality Framework (information for this can be found on the Educational Development and Inclusion SEND Padlet)
- SEND peer reviews
- SENCO networks
- SENCO guide
- Staff specialisms within school/across trusts/groups of schools
- Free access to a core offer from the Educational Psychology Service and general advice from SENDOS specialist teachers.
- School Effectiveness
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Service
Post 16
- Post 16 networks
- staff specialisms within provision
Tier 2: SEND Advice and Support Allocation Panel (SEND ASAP)
- Free advice and support for individual children and young people from:
- SEND Outreach Service (0-25 years)
- Educational Psychology Service
- outreach teams from Newcastle specialist schools.
- Individual Pupil Support funding (IPS).
- School Effectiveness
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Service
Tier 3: Additional Resourced Provision (ARP)
(Not applicable for pre-school and post-16)
- Assessment and long term placements.
- Advice provided by ARP staff on an outreach basis to mainstream settings.
Tier 4: Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP)
- EHC Assessments and plans
- Once all other support has been tried out
- All settings