SEND Support Page

Please find details of a Leeds Local Offer event below: 

Some useful services and information for parents of autistic children.

Update on the STARS offer for schools and parents:

Please find STARS l's list of activities on in Leeds over the summer holidays.

Please find the CAMHS crisis number below. 

The Leeds Local Offer Monthly News Letter is below. It is packed full of useful information for SEND families. 

SENDIASS are running several workshops for parents of children with SEND. See the details on the leaflet below. 

Does your SEND child want to join a universal club, but needs some extra support? SCOPE can help you with this. Please see the leaflet below. 

Happy New Year!

SENDIASS are offering a range of workshops for parents of SEND children. Please find the details below.

STARS have produced a list of support services for children with SEND. Please see the details below:

The Zones of Regulation A4 Summary. 

The Zones of Regulation Powerpoint.

Please find the latest information from SENDIASS below. 

A new SEND and Inclusion strategy for Leeds is coming soon!

Find out more and have your say

Leeds City Council and Leeds health agencies are working on a new strategy to support children and young people in Leeds aged 0-25 with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and/or additional needs.

We are working with a range of partners, including children and young people and their families, and partners across education, health and social care services.

We are inviting people to join us at Zoom sessions to find out more about our early work on the strategy. We really want to hear what people think about it. If you are a child or young person with SEND and/or additional needs, a parent or carer, or you work with children and young people in Leeds, please join us at a session! Your views will help us to keep working on the strategy and make sure we get it right.

To find out more and take part, please visit our Leeds Local Offer website at https://leedslocaloffer.org.uk/#!/model/page/service/33653

We can also bring the session to groups of young people, families or partners. Email Natalie from the Learning Inclusion Service natalie.samuel@leeds.gov.uk to discuss this.

If you can’t make it to a session, or prefer to read about the strategy and give feedback in your own time, that’s also an option. See our website as above for more information.

STARS have provided this useful list of resources for supporting your child with autism. 

SENIT have provided this useful guide for parents about Dyslexia. 

Reading and Spelling difficulties.

If your child has reading and spelling difficulties, the booklet below may help you to find different ways of supporting your child at home.

Please find some useful Top Tips resources and weblinks to help you to support your child with communication and language difficulties at home. 

NHS Speech and Language Toolkit web link: https://www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services-a-z/speech-and-language-therapy2/speech-and-language-therapy-toolkit/

Intensive Interaction Link:  https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/advice-support/intensive-interaction/

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is well and managing within these very challenging times. As during the previous partial school closure, I will update this page with any information that may be useful to parents working at home with their child. Please don't hesitate to contact me via email or by telephoning school, if you would like any specific help or advice. 

Speech and Language Consultations. 

If your child is under the care of Linda Gilmour, our speech and language therapist, but not attending school at the moment, then you can book a telephone consultation with her to discuss your child's progress and get some more ideas of how you can support your child at home. Please follow the link below and complete the form. Linda will then call you back. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo68B_kd-hXLGoQ1kX94PqM4G6KCDre5n3uzPfbt3sJDsOJg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Week Beginning 14th December 2020.

A chance for parents and carers of children with SEND to ask questions of the professional agencies in Leeds: 

January 2021: SENDIASS (SEND Information, Advice and Support Service)

An opportunity for parents and carers to ask questions to professionals who work for SENDIASS, the Leeds information, advice and support services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

This is an opportunity to find out more about the service SENDIASS offer, if you have any specific concerns please email them to LLO@leeds.gov.uk 

Submit your question here by Sunday 3^rd January 2021: https://surveys.leeds.gov.uk/s/PCFQandA/  

The question and answer session will be available to watch via the Leeds Local Offer week commencing 11^th  January 2021.

Please share this opportunity with parents and carers you work with.

Week beginning 21st September 2020

Please find the Parent and Child surveys for the Leeds Local Offer website consultation process below. 

Once you have competed the surveys, email them to LLO@Leeds.gov.uk.

The consultation process is open until 31st October 2020.

Parent/Carer Survey:

Children's survey:

Week Beginning 20th July 2020.

Please find 2 social stories below. One helps you to prepare your child for coming back to school. The other talks about how we can help to prevent the spread of COVID-19.  

Week Beginning 13th July 2020.

As we move into the final week of this academic year, we are all thinking about the return to school in September. Please find a presentation by STARS below that gives some useful advice on how to prepare your child for the return to school. Underneath the presentation, are some of the documents mentioned in it. They may be useful in helping you to prepare your child for their return to school.

Week Beginning 29.06.2020

As we enter the final half of this half term, we are turning our minds to transition. Even though we are still unsure what school will look like in September, we are thinking about and planning for the return of our SEND pupils, whenever that may be. Some of you will already have received an All About Me Booklet to complete with your child and return to school (if you haven't received this, it could be that your child doesn't need one, however if you feel that they would benefit, contact me and I will post one to you). We will be sending out the My New Class Booklets as soon as we have more information about how schools will return. I will be organising individual transition plans for those children who need them, in discussion with parents and children. Whist we await further guidance on our eventual return to school, please use the resources below to help you to support your child. You can also contact me by email or by telephoning school, if you require more specific advice. 

STARS shared some Edible Sensory Play ideas with us. Some of them look quite easy to make with every day ingredients that we'll all have in our kitchen cupboards!

Week Beginning 15.06.2020

These lovely relaxation techniques have been shared with us via SENIT. 

Looking after our children’s well-being is so important in developing happy and content children.  We would like to share some strategies you can use at home to help your children feel calmer whilst refreshing their body and mind.  The strokes and Story Messages have come from or been inspired by Once Upon a Touch written by Mary Atkinson and Sandra Hooper.

Story Massage benefits:

•  Story Massage eases tension and gives the opportunity for dedicated ‘calming time.’
• The promotion of ‘feel good’ hormones which boost general well-being.
• Reduction of aggressive and hyperactive behaviour.
• Increased self-confidence, self-awareness and self-esteem.
• Individual attention giving a child a sense of self-worth.

For beginners, please watch the 10 strokes and have a go.  Once you have mastered these you will be ready to use the stories. 

Have a go and we hope you all enjoy the benefits of using these relaxing techniques at home.