Equality of Opportunity Supporting children with Special Educational Needs Policy statement We provide an environment in which all children, including those with special educational needs, are supported to reach their full potential • We have regard for the SEN Disability Code of Practice and the Equality Act 2010 • We ensure our provision is inclusive to all children with special education needs • We support parents and children with special education needs and meet those needs through a range of SEN strategies • We work in partnership with parents and other agencies in meeting individual children’s needs • We monitor and review our policy, practice and provision and, if necessary, make adjustments Procedures • Our SENCOs are Sonia Lloyd-Croydon and Patricia Nicholls • We ensure that the provision for children with special educational needs is the responsibility of all members of the Nursery • We ensure that our inclusive admissions practice ensures equality of access and opportunity • We use the graduated response system for identifying, assessing and responding to children’s special education needs • We work closely with parents of children with special education needs to create and maintain a positive partnership • We ensure that parents are informed at all stages of the assessment, planning, provision and review of their children’s education • We provide parents with information on sources of independent advice and support • We liaise with other professionals involved with children with special educational needs and their families, including transfer arrangements to other settings and schools • We provide a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum for all children with special educational needs • We use a system of planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing short term plans for children with special educational needs • We ensure that children with special educational needs are appropriately involved at all stages of the graduated response, taking into account their levels of ability • We have systems in place for supporting children during Early Years Action, Early Years Action Plus, Statutory Assessment and the Statementing process • We use a system for keeping records of the assessment, planning, provision and review for children with special educational needs • We provide resources (human and financial) to implement our Special Education Needs Policy • We provide in-service training for parents, practitioners and volunteers • We raise awareness of any specialism the setting has to offer • We ensure the effectiveness of our special educational needs provision by collecting information from a range of sources, e.g. Individual Education Plan reviews, staff and Directors meetings, parental and external agency’s views, inspections and complaints. This information is collated, evaluated and reviewed annually • We provide a complaints procedure • We monitor and review our policy annually

Children’s Rights and Entitlements Policy statement We promote children’s right to be strong, resilient and listened to by creating an environment in our Nursery that encourages children to develop a positive self-image, which includes their heritage arising from their colour and ethnicity, their languages spoken at home, their religious beliefs, cultural traditions and home background Procedures: • We promote children’s right to be strong, resilient and listened to by encouraging children to develop a sense of autonomy and independence • We promote children’s right to be strong, resilient and listened to by enabling children to have the self-confidence and the vocabulary to resist inappropriate approaches • We help children to establish and sustain satisfying relationships within their families, with peers and with other adults • We work with parents to build their understanding of, and commitment to, the principles of safeguarding all our children