What we do?

We work with children 0-5 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, their families and other professionals. We work in Homes, Settings and Schools. We provide a range of training to parents, settings and school staff.

Further information

Home teaching

We aim for parents/carers will feel supported and have a greater understanding of their child’s needs and feel more able to meet their needs.

We will do this through:

• Providing home teaching and work together with parents and carers
• Providing advice on children’s learning, language and behaviour
• Working closely with other professionals working with the child
• Helping parents understand child development and how they can help their child learn and develop
• Helping parents to access advice, help and child-care provision in their communities

Early years settings

We provide every Leicester City early years setting has a link teacher known as an Area SENCO.

We will:

• Support setting SENCOs in developing their role
• Offer guidance on their SEND policy and procedures
• Provide training on a range of SEND topics both centrally and at the setting
• Aid settings with the early identification of children with SEND
• Advise and support staff in meeting children’s individual needs
• Advise staff on how to make their setting more inclusive
• Support settings with the assessments, provision and review of individual children
• Support settings with transition of children SEND into schools

Schools

Every Leicester school has a link EYST teacher for children in nursery and reception classes

We will:

• Provide training on a range of SEND topics both centrally and in school
• Advise and support staff in meeting children’s individual needs
• Attend joint planning meetings twice a year
• Work closely with the school SENCO and the staff in foundation stage
• Support staff with the transition of individual children into the foundation stage and liaise with CLCI and SEMH teams for children going into year 1
• Support schools with the assessments, provision and reviews of individual children
• Advise school on including children with SEND

Family fun

We offer 'family fun’ every Wednesday morning (term time) at the Early Years Support Centre. This is a stay and play session for families and children on the early years support team caseload. Parents and children can:

• Pick up helpful ideas and tips
• Meet other parents
• Have fun with a wide range of activities

Pindar Nursery

• Information on Pindar Nursery

Attachments

• Early years support team information leaflet [pdf – 158 Kb]
• Home teaching agreement [pdf – 154 Kb]