EPSS Professional Support Menu

Raising Standards

• Support for cluster development and operations
• Information and resources on individual needs and whole cluster/school issues
• Training in meeting the needs of children and young people who have SEND/AEN e.g. Autistic Spectrum Condition, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Attachment Disorders, ADHD, ODD, experience bullying
• Training on whole cluster/school issues, such as anti-bullying; classroom management; working with parents; emotional wellbeing; differentiating the curriculum; learning styles; mediated learning and learning scaffolding
• Consultation, mentoring and practical hands on work for teaching and non-teaching staff
• Assessment of children’s cognition and learning, emotional & social needs.
• Advice and support on developing Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and monitoring progress of children
• Attendance at review meetings for children and young people
• Support/training around Disability and SEND Tribunals
• Support for transitions
• Support for SEND tracking/monitoring systems (pre- or post-Ofsted)
• Support for collating evidence to request a statutory assessment of SEND

Cognition & Learning

• Cluster/school training on literacy interventions, including Sound Discovery & A.R.R.O.W.
• Advice on access arrangements for public examinations
• Loan of materials including training materials, laptops and iPads for children and young people.
• Consultation on best ways of teaching literacy and numeracy to children and young people who have additional needs
• Assessment of children and young people who experience literacy/numeracy/memory difficulties
• Specialist/trial teaching for those children and young people who have longstanding problems acquiring basic learning skills
• Information/Training on metacognition and learning styles
• Advice and support on Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
• Advice and support on difficulties that result from working memory problems
• Information / training on mediated learning
• Dynamic assessment and advice on specific mediated learning strategies
• Advice/support/interventions for specific learning difficulties dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia,

Communication & Interaction

• Cluster/school training on language development in children and meeting the needs of children with specific communication difficulties
• Consultation, advice and practical support for teaching and non-teaching staff on evidence based classroom practice
• Assessment of children & young people who experience difficulties with language and communication
• Provision and monitoring of language programmes
• Supporting children in dealing with name calling or teasing

Sensory and Physical

• Information/training for clusters/schools on disabilities
• Information / training for schools / clusters on educational implication of working with children with complex medical conditions and their parents
• Support and practical bespoke interventions for children and young people
• Support around DDA matters (e.g. reasonable adjustments)
• Advice and support on issues arising from the Equalities Act, 2010

Social, Emotional, and Mental Health

• Information/training for clusters/schools on stress (including exam stress), anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders and other well-being issues
• Advice and training on behaviour management
• Advice and training on bullying and training for young people
• Advice and training on using solution-focus approaches
• Advice and training on emotional literacy
• Advice and training on social skills, self awareness and self esteem
• Setting up a Circle of Friends intervention for children and young people who are socially isolated
• Direct work with children and young people experiencing emotional/emerging mental health issues supporting them using Cognitive Behaviour Intervention (CBI), Solution Focused Intervention (SFI), and Therapeutic Story writing. This is available for individuals and groups of children/young people
• Bespoke interventions for young people using Motivational Interviewing
• Bespoke psychological interventions for children and young people who refuse to attend school
• Preparation (parents/pupils) for return home from a residential school
• Mediation regarding disagreement/conflict with parents
• Support for parent involvement projects

Whole-school / cluster activities

• Consultancy support for cluster SENDCos and school leaders
• Cluster/school training in SEND/child development/teaching and learning to support networks
• Training for school Governors
• FSP attendance/support
• Stress management for staff
• Research and project support
• Support with evaluation of pupil progress
• Support for inclusion activities and dual placements
• Advice on anti-bullying strategies
• Support for emotional well-being
• Over-sight of school-based interventions
• Support for responses to complaints and Tribunal appeals
• Support/facilitation for user-participation activities

Coaching & brokering

• Training and supervision in delivering specific therapeutic based approaches
• Coaching of SENDCos and other cluster / school staff
• Professional supervision in psychological, social work and learning matters
• Group supervision
• Brokering access to other services

Training

• Bespoke packages
• Emotional Health & Wellbeing Toolkit
• ZAP
• Secure Base Training
• Critical Incident training
• Bereavement training
• Sound Discovery
• A.R.R.O.W.
• VIG

Other

• Support with data analysis, trends and SEND decision making processes at cluster / school level
• Support with case studies, action research and other research priorities on whole cluster / school issues, improvement
• Support in disseminating relevant research information in professional publications to a wider audience
• Any other measures to help clusters and schools support children with SEND/AEN