SEND support

The 0-25 SEND code of Practice (2015) identifies ‘four broad areas of [special educational] need and support’ p85.

These are:

• Communication and Interaction
• Cognition and Learning
• Social, Emotional and Mental Health
• Sensory and/or Physical Needs

Each of these areas are listed below and contain links to a parent leaflet which have been co-produced between MCT and Durham County Council.

Communication and Interaction

• Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),
  • including Asperger’s Syndrome and Sensory Processing Disorder

Cognition and Learning

• How your child with General Learning Difficulties is supported in school
• Mild Learning Difficulties (MILD)
• Moderate learning
  difficulties (MLD)
• Severe learning difficulties (SLD)
• Profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD)
• Specific learning difficulties (SpLD)
• Dyslexia
• Dyscalculia
• Dyspraxia/DCD

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

• Becoming withdrawn or isolated
• Displaying challenging, disruptive or disturbing behaviour.
• Anxiety or depression
• Self-harming
• Substance misuse
• Eating disorders
• Physical symptoms that are medically unexplained.
• Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
• Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
• Attachment disorder.

Sensory and/or Physical Needs

• Vision impairment (VI)
• Hearing impairment (HI)
• Multi-sensory impairment (MSI)
• Physical disability (PD)
• Cerebral Palsy (CP)
• Spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus (SBH)
• Muscular dystrophy (MD)

Other useful leaflets and information.

• Early years – How your child with Emerging Needs is supported in school
• Council for disabled children template letters e.g EHCP request, request for direct payments. HERE
• Link to updated PfA toolkit 7/5/2021 HERE
• Making Changes Together: MCT leaflet – May 2018
• Durham SENDIASS: Durham IASS leaflet
• Special Educational Needs and or Disability (SEND) in schools – A guide for parents and carers
• SEN support in mainstream schools: SEN-Support
• Funding for SEN in mainstream schools: Funding-for-SEN-Support
• Education Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment for children in early years settings or at school: EHC-Needs-Assessments
• Personal budgets for special educational needs: Personal-Budgets
• The Local Offer: Document The-Local-Offer
• Making Changes Together May 2018 Conference Report
• Send_written_statement_of_action_for_special_educational_needs_and_disabilities
• SEND Participation Strategy Final –  (Co-production document)
• Durham included in government document to praise LA & MCT co-production. See page 10- Here
• Co-production strategy workshop slides 2018
• Children and Young peoples SEND promise for County Durham
• Parents charter
• Making Changes Together Conference Report November 2018
• List of Specialist and enhanced mainstream schools in County Durham
• Think autism strategy 
• Latest County Durham Short breaks statement
• County Durham SEND Strategy  2019 – 2020 
• County Durham Children & Young People’s Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing and Resilience Transformation Plan 2015- 2020