October 2021

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Get answers to your SEND related questions

Do you need to get answers to questions relating to SEND to better support children and young people in your work?  The Early Help SEND Navigation Tool may be able to help you.

Some of you may already know that last year we designed a tool to help early help practitioners get answers quickly to SEND related questions they may encounter while working with CYP with SEND and their families. 

The tool mainly navigates to the Local Offer and health websites and is therefore a useful way for practitioners to become familiar with content on these sites, which have been designed for parents/ carers, so how professionals navigate them may be different.  

Many early help practitioners have told us they find the tool useful and is strengthening the SEND support within universal services and targeted services.  It was been co-produced with professionals from a range of services across health, education and social care, together with parent /carer representatives from HPCI.

The tool is an interactive pdf with hyperlinks.  We’ve recently checked for broken links and some new ones taking you to brand new pages on the Local Offer e.g. Contacting a SEND service, New to SEND, Early Years SEND and Preparing for Adulthood. 

So, we’re taking this chance to remind you of this tool and hope it continues to be useful to you.

The tool can be found in two places: the Families First Portal and the SEND iLearn (elearning) platform.  We encourage you to save the link rather than the pdf so when we update the links you always have the most up to date version.

Let us know what you think about it or if there is anything else you need to help you support CYP with SEND: sue.chapman@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Please note the tool should NOT to be shared with families. Instead, professionals should be helping families become familiar with navigating the Local Offer. 

Make sure you keep up to date and share stories with us about SEND information and support in Hertfordshire via Local Offer Facebook, @sendherts Twitter and fortnightly newsletter SEND News

 

 

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