Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Our School SENCO is Mrs Downes and our Family SENCO is Mrs Shiels
SEND Policy and Information Report/Local Offer
Click here to view St John's C of E Primary School's SEND Policy
Click here to view St John's C of E Primary School's SEND Local Offer
What is the SEND Information Report/Local Offer?
All Nottinghamshire schools must publish their own ‘SEND Local Offer’, and also share the link to Nottinghamshire County Council’s ‘SEND Local Offer’.
St John's C of E Primary School's SEND Local Offer can be viewed here.
Nottinghamshire County Council's SEND Local Offer can be accessed here.
Click here to watch a video about Nottinghamshire County Council's SEND Local Offer.
This is an attempt to bring together information that is intended to be helpful to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and their families. The aim is for this to be located in one easily searchable website. Staff in Nottinghamshire County Council’s Call Centre will also be able to provide details of the information contained within SEND Local Offer to those without easy access to the internet.
They can be contacted on 0300 500 80 80.
The SEND Local Offer will cover public services that are available within:
- Education: e.g. nurseries, playgroups, schools and colleges as well as support services like educational psychologists, early years and early intervention workers
- Health: e.g. GPs, paediatricians, school nurses and therapists
- Social care: e.g. respite services and children’s disability services.
It should also enable you to find out what support and services are available in the voluntary and private sectors, for example from charities and disability groups, nurseries, youth clubs etc, both in your immediate area and across Nottinghamshire.
Leisure time is something we all value and the SEND Local Offer aims to highlight opportunities for children and young people who have additional needs to engage in a broad range of activities, from cinema screenings for children with specific needs, to evening clubs like cubs/scouts or brownies/guides running during the week, to specific events offered during the school holidays.
The SEND Local Offer is intended to help you make informed choices about things that are important to you:
- where to live
- transport
- social activities
- options after school - continuing your education, apprenticeships, supported employment etc
- making the transition from services provided for children to those for adults
The SEND Local Offer is not a directory. Its aim is to help you find the material that you’re looking for or to sign post you to somebody who can provide you with additional information or answer any questions that you might have.
It’s also a resource that individuals, groups or organisations can draw on in the work that they do in supporting children, young people and their families, by highlighting other resources, services or guidance that may be accessed.
Most importantly the SEND Local Offer is intended for you and should be shaped by you. If you have comments or feedback you want to give on what is or isn’t included then please e-mail send.localoffer@nottscc.gov.uk
The Local Authority will do their best to make sure that a service or provision is included or the information clarified and if they can’t do what you ask, they’ll at the very least explain why they can’t.
School Accessibility Plan & Equality Scheme
Click link to view our School Accessibility Plan
Click link to view our Disability Equality Scheme