New to SEND
Information and Advice
Click on the sections below to find useful information and advice.
If you would like to speak to someone to help you find the information you need about SEND, please contact us at LocalOffer@kirklees.gov.uk or call us on 01484 416919.
If you would like help from Early Support please call 01484 456823, if you would like to speak with someone about an adult (over 18) please call Community Health and Social Care on 0300 304 5555
Common Concerns
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments explained
- Sleep problems
- School refusal and anxiety
- What if you are worried about a child?
- Letting people know you may need help (including the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower scheme)
- Making choices when you have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - The Mental Capacity Act
- Additional Needs Register
- What about adults with learning disabilities and special needs?
- What about other Local Authorities?
- Bullying
- How to deal with meltdowns
- Helping young people with SEND stay safe online
- Protecting children from online hate, extremism, and fake news
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Drugs - How to keep yourself safe
Help for Families
- Getting social care support for a child
- Getting social care support as an adult
- Moving from children's to adult social care
- The Early Support Service
- Children with a Disability Service (CWD)
- Children with a Disability Service eligibility criteria
- Care for adults with additional needs (Shared Lives)
- Short Breaks & Respite
- A more connected, happy, independent and healthier life - Community Plus
- Kirklees Youth Justice Service
- Homestart Kirklees
- Adaptions to your home (Accessible Homes Team)
General Health Information
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- Starting Well - Speech, Language and Communication videos
- Find a GP
- Easy Health - Easy read resources
- Helping people with SEND be healthy & active - guidance for parents/carers
- Find a hospital
- Health visiting and school nursing
- Sexual health under 18's
- Children Development Centre's (CDC)
- Adaptions to your home (Accessible Homes Team)
- Dental care for young people with SEND
- Chat Health
- Safer Moving and Handling Advice for Parents and Carers
- Moving from children's to adult health services
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- Children's therapy services overview (SALT, OT and Physio)
- The Designated Clinical Officer (DCO)
- Speech & Language Therapy (SALT)
- Children's Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Children's Physiotherapy
- Sensory Occupational Therapy
- Annual health checks and staying healthy
- Dietician (for children, young people and adults)
- Community nursing
- Hospital passports and help at hospitals
- Wheelchair services
- Toileting
- Children's Epilepsy Team
- Adults therapy team - Speech and Language, Physio, Occupational Therapy
- Moving from Children's to Adults health care - Continuing Health Care
- Help to find an independent Speech and Language therapists
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Information
Autism, ADHD & Learning Disability (LD) Health Information
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- Autism, ADHD and ADD support and assessment
- Annual health checks and staying healthy
- Hospital passports and help at hospitals
- Supporting children (0-5) with a learning disability in hospital
- Good mental health for people with learning disabilities
- What about adults with learning disabilities and special needs?
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Education
- Transitions - moving between schools
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- What teachers should be doing to support Children & Young People with SEND - Inclusive High Quality Teaching
- The Graduated Approach - Support above and beyond normal teaching
- What does a SENDCO (Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Co-ordinator) do?
- IEP's ANPs, provision maps and I-APDR's and MSPs
- The Kirklees Specialist Outreach Teams
- Educational Psychology (EP) Service
- Cluster Working in Kirklees
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- Applying for a school place for a child with SEND
- Choosing a school for a child with SEND
- Types of Mainstream Educational Settings
- Schools search
- Changing schools when you have an EHCP (including Change of Phase)
- Additionally Resourced Provisions - ARP's
- Special Schools and settings
- Independent educational settings outside of Kirklees (Section 41 Approved Schools and Natspec)
- Mainstream colleges and training providers
- Transferring from college to Higher Education & getting support (including DSA)
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- Managed moves to another school
- Suspensions & Permanent Exclusions
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- What is an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)?
- How to apply for an EHC Needs Assessment (EHCNA)
- What does "The Legal Test" mean?
- EHCP reviews
- How long does my Education, Health and Care plan last?
- Disagreements, tribunals and appeals
- Personal budgets (Education)
- Questions from families about EHCP's
- Moving to a new local authority and EHCP's
- Careers support for young people with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
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- Council for Disabled Children - legal handbook
- The SEND code of practice
- Introduction to the SEND Code Of Practice
- Parents Guide to the SEND Code of Practice
- The Children's and Families Act
- The Equality Act
- The Care Act
- Making choices when you have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - The Mental Capacity Act
- Kirklees Virtual School for children and young people in care
- What does education look like after 16?
Early Years & Childcare
- 50 Things To Do Before You’re Five
- How to get childcare for a child with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- Free Learning and Childcare for 2, 3-and 4-year-old children
- Identifying and assessing Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in the Early Years
- Special Education Needs and Disability funding (SENDIF and DAF)
- Sleep problems in young children
Preparing for Adulthood (PfA)
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- What does preparing for adulthood (PfA) mean?
- Getting support with preparing for adulthood (if you have an EHCP)
- Parents & Carers guide to preparing for adulthood
- Easy read guide to preparing for adulthood
- Preparing for adulthood checklist
- Helping young people to be independent - The Community Enablement Team
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- Careers information
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- Having a life and being part of society
General Information & Advice
- KIAS (Kirklees SENDIAS service)
- Support groups and advice
- Advocacy
- Children missing education (and international new arrivals)
- Reduced (part-time) timetables in school
- National association for special educational needs (NASEN)
- Additional Needs Register
- Complaints and disagreements
- Help with school attendance (Education safeguarding)
Travel, Transport & Getting Out
Finance & Benefits
- Finance & benefits - overview
- Passes & cards - overview
- Grants and charities you can apply to - overview
- Adult social care financial assessment (means testing)
- Benefits calculator
- Carers Allowance
- Council Tax
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
- Housing Benefit
- Job Seekers Allowance (JSA)
- New style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Tax Credits
- Universal Credit
- Wills and Trusts
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments explained
- Disabled Facilities Grants
Information and Support for Specific Conditions
- Acquired brain injuries (ABI)
- ADHD
- Autism
- Autism - videos about everyday situations
- Autism - sex and relationships resources
- Angelman syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Complex communication & interaction difficulties (CCI)
- Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (DCC)
- Down's syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia or DCD
- Epilepsy
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
- Hearing impairment
- Learning disabilities (including PMLD)
- Multi Sensory Impairment (MSI)
- Physical Impairment
- Sensory needs
- Social, emotional & mental health difficulties (SEMH) - including behaviour
- Specific Learning Difficulties (including Dyslexia and Dyspraxia)
- Tourette's
- Visual impairment (blindness and sight problems)