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You may find lots of terms, abbreviations, phrases and words that you might not know what they mean when you are using this site or any other sites about special needs and disabilities. We have made a list of the most common ones to help.
If you come across any other words or abbreviations that you don't know, please let us know at localoffer@kirklees.gov.uk
You can find more explanations of words and phrases used when talking about SEND on the Special Needs Jungle Glossary of SEND Terms page (opens a new page).
You can also find more explanations of terms often used when talking about health and social care on the TLAP Care and Support Jargon Buster (opens a new page).
CAMHS - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CFA - Client Financial Affairs
CHEWS - Children’s Emotional Wellbeing Service
CHFT - Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust
CME - Children Missing in Education
CSE - Child Sexual Exploitation
CVA - Cerebrovascular accident
EHA/SA - Early Help Assessment / Single Assessment
EHCP - Education, Health and Care Plan
EYSEND - Early Years Special Educational Needs
Early Years Inclusion - Providing advice, guidance, identifying SEND and help with producing My Support Plans and applying for EHCP's for early years children.
FSW - Family Support Worker
GAD - Generalised Anxiety Disorder
HSCA - Healthcare Supply Chain Association
IBP - Individual Behaviour Plan
IEP - Individual Education Plan
IMCA - Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
IMHA - Independent Mental Health Advocate
IW - Inclusion Worker
KCSB - Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board
LA - Local Authority
LAC - Looked After Children
MASH - Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
MAST - Multi Agency Support Team
MCA - Mental Capacity Assessment
MHST - Mental Health Support Team
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
MSP - My Support Plan
PAN - Published Admissions Number
PCA - Person Centred Approaches
PDA - Pathological Demand Avoidance
PEP - Personal Education Plan
PPRS - Primary Pupil Referral Service
PRU - Pupil Referral Unit
Portex - Specialist teachers who work with schools to help identify SEND and deliver strategies to support early years children with SEND
PEG (feeding) - Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
SALT - Speech And Language Therapy
SAPT - Specialist Adult Pathway Team
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SENCo - Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
SEND - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
SENDACT - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Assessment and Commissioning Team
SENDIF - Special Educational Needs & Disability Inclusion Fund
SILC - Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre
SLCN - Speech, Language & Communication Needs
SPLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
SPOC - Single Point of Contact
SPR - Single Point Of Referral
SWYPFT - South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust (opens a new page)