What must be included in the Local Offer?

4.29 Local authorities must include information about all the areas specified in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014. They may wish to include wider information, taking account of their discussions with children with SEN or disabilities and their parents and young people with SEN or disabilities.

Up to date · SEND Regulations 2014 · Co-production

4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning

Appeals · Training and apprenticeships · Transitions · Transport · Strategy · Children and Families Act 2014 · Equality Act 2010 · Information and advice · EHC Plan · Leisure · Childcare · Publish · Health

details of how parents and young people can request an assessment for an EHC plan
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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Asking for a EHC Plan assessment

if there is a form on your site, use

Ask for an EHC Plan assessment

EHC Plan

• arrangements for identifying and assessing children and young people’s SEN – this should include arrangements for EHC needs assessments

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Recognizing special educational needs
Noticing when extra help is needed
Recognizing when children need support
Assessing learning and development needs

EHC Plan

• arrangements for travel to and from schools, post-16 institutions and early years providers

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Getting help with transport

Transport

• other educational provision, for example sports or arts provision, paired reading schemes

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Finding extra learning activities

Alternative Provision

• post-16 education and training provision
• apprenticeships, traineeships and supported internships

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Starting work or training
Finding apprenticeships
Going to college or university
Getting support for higher education

Training and apprenticeships · Post-16

• support to help children and young people move between phases of education (for example from early years to school, from primary to secondary) Transition phases

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Starting school or nursery
Moving to a new school
Leaving school

Transitions

• sources of information, advice and support in the local authority’s area relating to SEN and disabilities including information and advice provided under Section 32 of the Children and Families Act 2014, forums for parents and carers and support groups
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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:

Ideas for page or section headings. Find advice and support
Get help with disagreements

SENDIASS · Forums · Information and advice

• childcare, including suitable provision for disabled children and those with SEN

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Finding childcare

Childcare

• leisure activities
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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:

Ideas for page or section headings. Finding leisure activities
Things to do in your free time

Leisure

• support available to young people in higher education, particularly the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) and the process and timescales for making an application for DSA

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Getting support for higher education

Higher Education

• arrangements for resolving disagreements and for mediation, and details about making complaints


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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Getting help with disagreements
Making a complaint

Complaints · Mediation · Transparent

• parents’ and young people’s rights to appeal a decision of the local authority to the First-tier Tribunal (SEN and disability) in respect of SEN and provision

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Appealling a decision

Appeals · Transparent

• the local authority’s accessibility strategy (under paragraph 1 Schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010)
SCHEDULE 10
Accessibility for disabled pupils
Accessibility strategies
1(1) A local authority in England and Wales must, in relation to schools for which it is the responsible body, prepare—
(a) an accessibility strategy;
(b) further such strategies at such times as may be prescribed.

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Riverside Council accessibility strategy

Accessibility · Strategy

•institutions approved under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014

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4.30 The Local Offer must include information about:
• special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include online and blended learning
• information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood (see paragraphs 4.52 to 4.56)

Ideas for page or section headings. Specialist schools we can name in EHC plans

Special schools you can request in an EHC plan

Section 41

4.31 The Local Offer should cover:
• support available to all children and young people with SEN or disabilities from universal services such as schools and GPs

Ideas for page or section headings. Using everyday services with SEND

Information and advice · Short term support · Specialist support

• specialist services for children and young people with SEN or disabilities who require specialised, longer term support
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4.31 The Local Offer should cover:

Ideas for page or section headings. Getting long term specialist support

Information and advice · Short term support · Specialist support

• targeted services for children and young people with SEN or disabilities who require additional short-term support over and above that provided routinely as part of universal services
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4.31 The Local Offer should cover:

Ideas for page or section headings. Getting extra short term help

Information and advice · Short term support · Specialist support