Welcome to Bury’s Graduated Approach Toolkit
Bury’s education, health and social care services are committed to working in partnership to help settings to remove the barriers to children accessing education; we want Bury children to be thriving in education. Our local area partnership ambition is to remove barriers to include children and young people better from the earliest stages of entering an educational setting so that every child in Bury, regardless of background, ability, identity, or circumstance, will have equitable access to health, care and educational support that meets their needs and empowers their belonging.
Bury’s graduated approach sets out how the local area partnership will support a borough wide growth in understanding and how services will support educational settings to refine their action to meet the needs of all our children and young people, regardless of which setting they attend. This approach will ensure that children and young people will receive the right support in the right place at the right time. Click this link to find out more about Bury’s graduated approach: Bury's Graduated Approach.
The Graduated Approach Toolkit is a resource for all Bury’s stakeholders and partners to support the delivery of the graduated approach. The toolkit has been co-produced with setting and school staff, parents/carers, children and young people, and professionals living and working in Bury. It has been designed to offer guidance and support to anyone who experiences or supports someone with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities). There are sections specifically for educational staff, parents/carers and children and young people. Our aspiration is for this to be a well used ‘working document’ that is shaped and updated over time to meet the needs of those who use it.
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Introduction
The toolkit is designed to offer guidance and support to improve inclusion in educational settings and remove barriers to learning through reasonable adjustments and high quality teaching and targeted support as part of a ‘graduated approach’ to SEND. A graduated approach draws upon the four part cycle of Assess, Plan, Do and Review and is in addition to Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision.
Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision and the Graduated Approach
A range of activities, opportunities and support should be available to all children and young people as part of ‘Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision’ (OAIP), to support everyone’s inclusion and progress. Bury offers guidelines for the development of OAIP in schools which can be found here: Ordinarily Available and Inclusive Provision - Bury Council. For children and young people identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), where it is recognised that more targeted or specialist support is needed, SEN Support should be put in place. This uses a process of Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycles to develop a growing understanding of an individual’s strengths and the support they need to make good progress and achieve positive outcomes.
The toolkit covers the 0-25 age range: Early Years (0-5 years), Schools (5-16) and Post 16 (16-25). It is written for education staff to use collaboratively with parents/carers, children and young people.
