Cheshire East Toolkit for Inclusion

The Cheshire East Toolkit for Inclusion is aimed at all educational providers and settings supporting Cheshire East children and young people aged 0-25 years.

It outlines the provision and support that Cheshire East Council expects to be in place in all educational settings which support Cheshire East children and young people, including those with SEN, and therefore forms an important part of the Cheshire East Local Offer for SEND.

Its purpose is to provide detailed guidance on how educational settings can identify children and young people with different types and levels of need, along with information on appropriate steps and strategies to support them. It also provides clear information about inclusive practice, reasonable adjustments and SEN Support. It also details when a request for an Education, Health and Care needs assessment, or specialist services, may be required.

This document is intended to assist educational settings in supporting children and young people, including those with SEN and has been developed in co-production with local Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), Post-16 representatives, parent/carers and a wide range of specialist education, care and health services.

Your feedback on the Cheshire East toolkit for inclusion

We want to ensure that this first version of the Cheshire East toolkit for inclusion helps educational settings to support children and young people effectively. We are asking for your feedback on the document via our online feedback survey. Please tell us whether you think the document is useful and let us know about any comments or future suggestions you have. Your feedback will be used to improve the toolkit going forward.

• Slides from November 2017 launch events for the Cheshire East Toolkit for SEND (MS Powerpoint, 9MB)

Accessing the Cheshire East toolkit for inclusion

You can download the Cheshire East toolkit for inclusion

• Toolkit for inclusion (PDF, 6.39MB)

This version of the Cheshire East Toolkit for SEND was last updated in January 2024.

• Changes to the toolkit for inclusion - January 2024 (PDF, 66KB)

Individual sections:

• Toolkit for Inclusion - Sections 1 and 2 (PDF, 89KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Sections 3 - 6 (PDF, 584KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - EBSNA - Section 7 (PDF, 160KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Neurodiversity - (PDF, 80KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Reasonable Adjustments - Section 9 (PDF, 103KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Early Identification and Census - Section 10 (PDF, 90 KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - The Graduated Approach for Early Years - Section 11 (PDF, 893KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - The Graduated Approach in School - Section 12 (PDF, 1.17MB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Graduated Approach for Post 16 OAIP PfA - Section 13 (PDF 1.01MB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Transition between educational settings - Section 14 (PDF, 167KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - An overview of SEN Funding - Section 15 (PDF, 220KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Education Health and Care Needs Assessments - Section 16 (PDF, 107KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - SMART Targets - Section 17 (PDF, 293KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Health - Section 18 (PDF, 122KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Early Help and Social Care - Section 19 (PDF, 124KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Glossary - Section 20 (PDF, 64KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Roles and Responsibilities - Appendix 1 (PDF, 104KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - The Cheshire East Team - Appendix 2 (PDF, 150KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Useful Websites - Appendix 3 (PDF, 84KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Suggested Assessments - Appendix 4 (PDF, 164KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Suggested Resources - Appendix 5 (PDF, 198KB)
• Toolkit for Inclusion - Outreach Services - Appendix 6 (PDF, 815KB)

Associated paperwork

When a child or young person has been identified as having a certain level of need educational settings should fill in the Graduated Approach tables in the Cheshire East Toolkit. 

First concerns

• First concerns paperwork (MS Word, 195KB) - My Plan and My Diary (early years)
• Discussion form (MS Word, 55KB) - school and post-16
• First Concerns Profile (MS Word, 56KB) - school and post-16

SEN support

• SEN Support Plan – Early Years (MS Word, 128KB)
• SEN Support Plan – School (MS Word, 88KB)
• SEN Support Plan – Post-16 (MS Word, 81KB)
• SEND Provision Map - Blank template (XLS 42KB)
• SEND Provision Map - Completed example (XLS 45KB)
• Completing a costed provision map guidance - (PDF 187KB)

Complex and Specialist

Make sure that you have read and considered the information on the EHC needs assessment webpage and in the EHC needs assessment section of the Cheshire East Toolkit for SEND before making a request for an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment.

• EHC needs assessment knowledge and agreement form (MS Word, 452KB)
• EHC needs assessment one minute guide to supporting documents for educational settings (MS Word, 61KB)
• EHC needs assessment one minute guide to supporting documents for young people and parent carers (MS Word, 65KB)
• EHC Plan Blank Template (PDF, 201KB) - this is only completed as part of an EHC needs assessment process carried out by the local authority, and is not to be completed by educational settings
• Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) Transition Plan (MS Word, 545KB)

Notifications

• one minute guide to supporting documents for use with SEND Team notification guide (MS, Word 65KB) 
• SEND notification form (MS word, 63KB)
• SEND notification guidance document (PDF, 327KB)
• SEND notification flowchart (PDF, 260KB)

Page last reviewed: 31 January 2024