An Education Health & Care plan must be reviewed every year at an ‘Annual Review’ meeting. The purpose of the review is to ensure that the contents of the EHC plan remains relevant. The EHC plan can be amended if necessary following the Annual Review…
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Autism Advisor for Families offers: Support for families and carers following a diagnosis of Autism by: Listening to parents concerns and answering questions Providing guidance and information for families Sign posting to other services and voluntary organisations. Managing and delivering training programmes for parents Parent/Carer…
Berkshire Sensory Consortium Service work in partnership with schools and families for children who are deaf, vision and multi-sensory impaired to enable them to have good outcomes and a positive future.
The Cognition and Learning Team is an advisory service available to mainstream schools (Primary and Secondary) in West Berkshire. It is a traded service. The service provides advice, training, guidance and support for schools, working in partnership with staff. In particular the team work with…
EDIT is an early intervention service for children with additional needs (those likely to fall within the definition of SEN/D). Advisory teachers from the Service work in partnership with parents and carers, early years practitioners, and a range of health and social care professionals to…
Our educational psychologists apply psychology within the educational system and the community. We specialise in promoting learning, development, emotional well-being and positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
Education Welfare and Safeguarding Service (EWSS) works to ensure regular school attendance of children of statutory school age by supporting schools, meeting with children and families and liaising and working closely with other agencies. Where necessary the EWSS carries out the statutory duty of legal…
The Emotional Health Academy (EHA) is West Berkshire’s support for mild to moderate mental health in children and young people. Our goal is to help children and young people as early as possible and to stop emotional health problems from getting worse. The Academy is made up…
The Ethnic Minority & Traveller Service (EMTAS) provides support for ethnic minority children and their families. This includes children for whom English is an additional language and children from Gypsy or Traveller backgrounds. EMTAS can provide the following services: Translation and interpretation at meetings in…
Every year young people with Education, Health and Care Plans in West Berkshire decide to move onto University, or Higher Education study. The Local Authority has a responsibility to make young people aware through the Local Offer of educational support available to them in Higher…
iCollege is Pupil Referral Unit Service (PRUS) providing education for learners who have difficulty accessing mainstream. We offer: Full-time placements to support learners in achieving personal and academic success (KS2 – 5) Off-site reactive provision to improve mainstream engagement (KS1 – 4) Bespoke packages, including…
Specific Learning Difficulties – Literacy difficulties (Reading and Spelling) Language and Literacy Centres (LALs) provide additional support and provision for pupils attending mainstream schools in the authority that have significant Specific Learning Difficulties in Literacy as their primary need. The provision is designed to allow pupils…
The SEN Assessment team is responsible for carrying out new Education, Health and Care Plan assessments and reviewing and maintaining existing Education Health & Care Plans (EHCP).
West Berkshire Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) is available to parent carers of children and young people aged 0-25 with special educational needs and/or a disability (SEND) and also to children and young people with SEND themselves. The support…
Introduction The SEND Reform Toolkit produced by the Local Authority contains a variety of advice, guidance, templates and information to support the delivery of the SEND Reforms. The majority of the documents in the Toolkit were co-produced with a range of professionals and families. The…
SISS provides a service for mainstream schools to support them in planning their provision for individual children and young people with SEN. The target group for the service includes those children and young people who have been identified as requiring special educational provision and who…
The TTST is a team made up of Educational Psychologists, Advisers and Practitioners supporting maintained primary and secondary schools to consider the needs and provision for children and young people who experience Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. Adopting a therapeutic approach means that school…
The Autism Advisory Service supports Local Authority mainstream schools and academies in managing the learning, behaviour and social skills needs of pupils on the Autistic Spectrum. The work may include: Providing support and guidance for staff working with pupils with Autism Providing training and development…
West Berkshire's Virtual School is for children in care and those who were previously looked after. The aim of the service is to work with children and young people, their carers, social workers and schools to improve educational outcomes. As a team, we have qualified and experienced…