Please ensure you contact your child's Class teacher or the school's SENDCO (Mrs McGrath) if you have any worries or concerns about your child.

It is the aim and the vision of Warwickshire County Council that all schools are places where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported and welcome. We will work together to enable all our children and young people in Warwickshire to lead a fulfilling life and be part of their community.

The charter

This charter sets out what all children and young people and their families should expect from schools in Warwickshire, in line with the SEND Code of Practice.

Welcome and care

We will:

• Understand that every child is an individual

• Recognise the value of inclusion

• Make time to get to know you and what is important to you and your family

• Establish and build on positive relationships

• Make time to respond to your needs

• Work closely with all relevant people to ensure successful transitions

• Ensure children's and young people's voices are at the heart of all we do

  
  

Communicate

We will:

• Listen calmly and respectfully, with patience, ensuring you feel heard and understood.

• Establish how to provide and seek information in a way you can access and understand

• Recognise all behaviour is a form of communication

• Explain what can be done and any limitations

• Communicate in a way that means you can participate in planning and decision making

• Provide clear guidance on who to contact and respond promptly

• Make you comfortable by using positive and helpful language

• Create and maintain communication friendly environments

  
  

Value and include

We will:

• Remember inclusion is everyone’s responsibility

• Be proactive in providing reasonable adjustments

• Ensure our SENCo is able to support families and staff

• Inform and support you of any planned changes as soon as possible

• Ensure that children and young people with SEND are valued and included in pupil voice activities

• Identify needs early and assess, plan, do, review with support from appropriate agencies

• Ensure our children and young people have a trusted person who checks in with them at least weekly

• Have a 'can do' attitude and build on everyone’s strengths

• Recognise and meet the training needs of our staff

  
  

Work in partnership 

We will:

• Give you opportunities to share your views

• Do our best to understand and consider your ideas

• Involve you in developing shared plans for you and our school

• Value you as an equal partner and recognise your experience and knowledge

• Understand that every family is different and has different resources

• Engage with community groups

• Collaborate across settings to share good practice

• Work together with you and other people to recognise need and support you on your journey as a family

  
  

We will develop each of these commitments to build trust.

Experiences of loss and bereavement are a feature of everybody’s lives. Children and young people will have many experiences of loss and separation as part of their normal development. Each family will offer a unique and individual perspective of what has happened or is happening to them and there are no right or wrong responses to a loss or bereavement. Experiencing grief is a normal process children and young people will go through and most will require no additional professional support.

It’s a free, impartial, and confidential service offering information to young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and to their parents and carers.

They also provide information on a wide range of SEND topics for anyone to access.

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‘Children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) have difficulty in communicating with others. This may be because they have difficulty saying what they want to, understanding what is being said to them, or they do not understand or use social rules of communication. The profile for every child with SLCN is different and their needs may change over time. They may have difficulty with one, some or all of the different aspects of speech, language or social communication at different times of their lives.’

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