Local Offer

UPPORTING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND/OR DISABILITIES

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

The purpose of the ‘Local Offer’ is to enable families to be able to see what support they would receive from our setting. It clearly states what we already have in place and how we value each child as an individual.



Little Rascals Nursery provides an environment in which all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are supported to reach their full potential. Our Local offer, which can be found, published on our website or in the operational plan in the setting, sets out how we achieve this.

  • We designate a member of staff to be the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) and give his / her name to parents. Our SENCO is;
  • We ensure that the provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is the responsibility of all members of the Nursery
  • We ensure that our inclusive admissions practice ensures equality of access and opportunity
  • We use the graduated response system for identifying, assessing and responding to children’s special educational needs and/or disabilities
  • We work closely with parents of children with special educational needs to create and maintain a positive partnership
  • We ensure that parents are informed and involved at all stages of the assessment, planning, provision and review of their children’s education
  • We provide parents with information on sources of independent advice and support
  • We liaise with other professionals involved with children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and their families, including transfer arrangements to other Nursery’s, Pre-Schools and Schools
  • We provide a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum for all children with special educational needs and have high expectations and aspirations of what children can achieve
  • We use a system of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing the effectiveness of the support
  • We ensure that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are appropriately involved at all stages of the graduated response, taking into account their levels of ability
  • We have systems in place for working with other agencies at each stage.
  • We use a system for keeping records of the assessment, planning, provision and review for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities
  • We provide resources (human and financial) to implement our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Policy
  • We ensure the effectiveness of our special educational needs provision by collecting information from a range of sources e.g. one plan reviews, parental and external agency’s views, inspections and complaints.
  • We provide a complaints procedure
  • We monitor and review our Policy annually