What we do
What is home teaching about?
Who is it for?
What does the Service do for Early Years Settings?
How do I access this?
Does the service run all year?
How often will the service see my child in their early learning setting?
Will information about me and my child be shared with other services?
Further Information / Relevant links
Contact us
What is home teaching about?
Who is it for?
What does the Service do for Early Years Settings?
How do I access this?
Does the service run all year?
How often will the service see my child in their early learning setting?
Will information about me and my child be shared with other services?
Further Information / Relevant links
Contact us
We are the Early Years SEN Inclusion Service, part of Leicestershire’s Specialist Teaching Services.
The teachers and the practitioners in the Service support children with special educational and additional needs and their families by home teaching.
Leicestershire Portage Service is also part of the Early Years SEN Inclusion Service.
The teachers and practitioners who work for the Service belong to one of three Area Teams;
- North West Leics/Hinckley and Bosworth
- Charnwood/Melton
- South West Leics.
This helps them to get to know all the other agencies in an area that might be helping the child or family.
- Play and having fun
- Teaching in family homes and working closely with parents and carers.
- Helping parents and carers to feel more confident with their children
- Providing advice on young children’s learning, communication and personal, emotional skills.
- Working closely with other professionals helping the child.
We work with children from birth to four years old when children start school in Leicestershire.
We provide a service to children, families and early year’s settings to support those children with a significant and/or complex special educational need in more than one area of their development.
Every validated private, voluntary or independent early years setting has a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) who supports children with special educational needs.
To help them do this a teacher from the Early Years SEN Inclusion Service works as an Area Special Educational Need Co-ordinator (Area SENCO).
Anyone can refer a child, for example, parents, early years settings (pre-schools, play groups and nurseries), health visitors or paediatricians.
There is a meeting every fortnight (called the Early Years Referral Panel).
People from the Early Years SEN Inclusion Service, the Psychology Service and the Autism Outreach Service discuss every child referred and decide which service (or services) is best placed to meet the child’s needs.
A visit is then planned with parents and carers to talk about what the Service has to offer. At this first visit it will be decided how often and where the visits will take place. Visits can be at home, at the child’s early years setting or a combination of both.
No, the service runs on an academic timetable for 38 weeks of the year.
We will discuss with you how best to support your child. This may include some visits to home and some to setting.
We will share information about your child with other appropriate services to enable us to support them. However we will never pass information to another service with out your knowledge and only after we receive a signature from a parent or guardian giving us permission to do so.
Early Years SEN Inclusion Service
Specialist Teaching Services
Room 600
County Hall
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicestershire
LE3 8RA
Specialist Teaching Services
Room 600
County Hall
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicestershire
LE3 8RA
Office hours
8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
(4.30 p.m. on Fridays)
8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
(4.30 p.m. on Fridays)
Page Last Updated: 13 May 2013
