Identifying needs

The school will create a support plan for the student in partnership with parents/carers, the student and teachers. This will include some of the following:

• Reasonable adjustments teachers should make to provide high quality teaching
• The development of a ‘Pupil Inclusion Plan’
• What additional provision/intervention is needed to ensure they make progress
• SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed) targets are set. In York we use the councils ‘Banding Documents’ to identify thresholds of need – you can see these here.

The banding documents describe good practice and entitlement across all areas of need. They aim to ensure clarity, consistency and transparency for schools, parents, practitioners, the Education, Health and Care Plan Panel, and the equitable use of finite resources.

The plan will then be implemented for a period of time before it is reviewed again. 

The plan will be reviewed by parents/carers, the student and teachers. The review will be looking at:

• Has the student met/on track to meet expected targets?
• What evidence is there?
• Has there been any improvement on their rate of progress?
• How is the pupil responding to the targeted provision?
• Are there changes to the SEND? At this stage it is hoped that a fuller understanding of the need has been established and from this it will be decided to either:

1. Continue with the current plan since it is proving to be successful
2. Try different strategies that might prove to be more successful This is known as a graduated response.