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      • Think your child has SEND
      • Types of SEND
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          • Useful contact details
          • Applying for council travel support
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      • Home education for a child with SEND
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      • Apply for travel support
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        • Transition - Introduction
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        • Health - Transition
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          • Non-statutory mental health services
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        • Transition
          • Request a transition assessment
          • Things to think about
          • Leaving child services support
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        • Education and training opportunities
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      • Independence and independent living
        • Thinking about independence
      • Planning for good health
        • Some things to think about
        • Who can help?
      • Transition easy read documents
      • Preparing for Adulthood Plan
      • Starting converstations about your future
    • SEND Health
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        • Mental health course
      • Care navigation
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      • Healthy Together - SEND
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      • Care, support and personal assistants
      • The Care Act
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    • SEND in Leicester
      • The Change Programme
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      • Your voice
        • Parent Carer Forum
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        • Advocacy groups
        • Mystery shopper scheme
      • SEND training opportunities
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        • Ash Field Academy residential provision
        • Joint Health, Social Care and Education Transitions Strategy Refresh 2022-2024
        • Capital fund for Local Offer
        • Consultation archive
          • SEND Transformation Plan - Engagement
          • SEND provision places survey
          • Transition support for young people consultation
          • SEND Strategy Consultation
          • Review of funding for pupils in mainstream schools
          • SEND Transport Policy consultation
          • Mainstream school funding for SEND
          • Government SEND Review proposals
        • Joint LLR SEND Commissioning Strategy – Engagement Response
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      • Request an education health care needs assessment (EHCNA)
      • Statutory assessment timescale
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        • Criteria
      • Introductory meeting
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      • Resources allocation panel
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        • Mediation
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  • Disabled Children
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      • Independent travel training
    • Easy Read documents
  • Childcare professionals
    • Funded early education administration
      • Updates to the Early Years Provider Agreement
      • Provider agreement
      • Parental declaration form
      • ANNEX D (i) - FEEE Compliance process
      • Notification of stretched and extended hours
    • Supporting transition
      • Top tips for supporting transition
      • Transitions - Make Connections!
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    • Early Education Development
      • Starting a childcare business
        • How EED team can assist you
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        • Early years provision
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        • Glossary - Childcare
        • Start a childcare business enquiry form
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      • Safeguarding – what you need to know
        • Safeguarding links and resources
      • Smile early years award accreditation scheme
      • Supervised toothbrushing
      • Useful contacts and links
      • Quality support
        • Q cards
          • Safeguarding
          • Inclusive practice
          • Teaching and learning
          • Healthy living
          • Leadership and management
          • Areas of learning
        • About quality support
      • EYFS Network Event
    • SEND for professionals
      • Inclusive provision in Early Years
      • SEN inclusion fund and element 3 funding application
      • Disability access fund
      • SEND transfer form
      • Early Years training offer
      • Early Years Teaching Service resources
        • Structured teaching
          • TEACHH - physical structure
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          • TEACHH - Work system
        • Social stories in early years
        • Play interaction resources
          • Play interaction games
          • What is play interaction?
          • Songs and rhymes
        • Six stages of a crisis
        • Easy read documents - Inclusive provision
        • Positive handling plan for early years
        • One page profile
      • Dingley's Promise
      • SEND training and resources for professionals
    • Data collections
      • Early Years Census
      • Holiday childcare cost survey
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