Guidance

SEND resources for healthcare professionals

Updated 11 March 2016

Applies to England

This guidance is for commissioners, health and wellbeing boards (HWBs), health service providers and professionals.

SEND covers a broad range of conditions and illnesses, including:

• special educational needs
• autistic spectrum disorder
• sensory impairment
• continence difficulties (bladder and bowel dysfunction)

1. Special educational needs

Resources for commissioners and HWBs:

• Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years is the statutory guidance for organisations who work with and support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities

• 0 to 25 SEND code of practice: guide for health professionals

• for children and young people with literacy difficulties, specific learning difficulties and dyslexia. Also available as:
  • a
  • from the Council for Disabled Children

• an analysis of children with special educational needs

• is set up by the Department for Education and the Department of Health and contains a number of resource packs for parents, local authorities and providers, including:
  • , which provides information about local SEND provision
  • , which replaces learning difficulties assessments and statement of special educational needs, sets out the needs and aspirations of children and their parents and informs local authorities of their duties
  • the details the funding identified by local authorities to provide a specific education, health and care (EHC) plan
  • the helps different commissioners across education, health and care to join up their SEND services
  • getting the to make sure the SEND reforms are acted on
  • what바카라 사이트™s required of local authorities and providers in , such as getting a job or going into higher education

• the (MAPIT) supports SEND service improvements

• NHS England guidance for commissioners is an overview of

Resources for health service providers and professionals:

• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) provides a list of as part of the Children and Families Act 2014, Part 3

• the is an online portal offering education professionals access to information, resources and training

• e-learning about disability and disabled children and young people for the workforce

• British Academy of Childhood Disability is based on SEND and the EHC plan

• goes through the EHC plan process

• SEND guide for parents and carers explains the system that supports children and young people with SEND

• , from RCSLT, outlines how to provide safe and high quality child health services

2. Autistic spectrum disorder

Resources for commissioners and HWBs:

• an overview of from The National Autistic Society helps to understand the condition and its affects

• the from Autism Education Trust includes practical strategies to support young people on the autism spectrum deal with transition periods

Resources for health service providers and professionals:

• NICE guidance for children and young people:

• NICE quality standard for

• The National Autistic Society have a range of resources and guidance for

• 바카라 사이트˜Think Autism바카라 사이트™: an update to the government adult autism strategy sets out how the government will improve lives of people with autism, Annex C includes relevant resources, which can be applied to children and young people

3. Sensory impairment

Resources for commissioners and HWBs:

• RCSLT have , including:
  • Better Communication: Shaping speech, language and communication services for children and young people

• National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network (ChiMat), with RCSLT, have developed a

• Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) explain how the

• from The National Deaf Children바카라 사이트™s Society (NDCS):
  • , including 바카라 사이트˜Commissioning audiology services for young adults바카라 사이트™ and 바카라 사이트˜Quality Standards: Transition from paediatric to adult audiology바카라 사이트™
  • for audiology

• paediatric audiology is included in the

• an , from RNIB

• joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs) guidance for HWBs and now includes children바카라 사이트™s eye health (chapter 6)

• research report on children who are deafblind,

Resources for health service providers and professionals:

• guidance from The Communication Trust

4. Continence

Resources for commissioners and HWBs:

• , including the Paediatric Continence Commissioning Guide

• from NHS England

• , from ChiMat, helps with needs assessments as part of children바카라 사이트™s and young people바카라 사이트™s planning and joint strategic needs assessments

• for support with full service integration

Resources for professionals and providers:

• NICE quality standard for

• resources for from PromoCon