SEN Support

Family Support Service - ASPECTS at All Saints

We use ASPECTS as our family support service to support children and families with any challenges they may face and ensure that children are surrounded by a caring team.

The new official name for Aspects is "ASPECTS at All Saints", although they continue to be more familiarly known as simply 'Aspects'. You can find the new website page at All Saints C of E Primary School and Nursery - Home - Aspects @ All Saints. The website includes details about referrals (including how parents can self-refer) and services offered.

If you think that they may be useful for your family, please speak to us about a referral.

Neurodiversity Handbook

Hertfordshire County Council and the NHS are delighted to share with you the exciting and new Supporting your Neurodivergent Child handbook that has been developed for Hertfordshire parent/carers and professionals. The Neurodiversity Handbook has useful resources, support and signposting on a whole range of things relating to Neurodiversity.

The resource is accessible to all regardless of whether the young person has a diagnosis or not, and can be used at any point during a young person’s journey.

Neurodiversity Hub

We are delighted to let you know about the launch of The Hertfordshire Neurodiversity Support Hub. The Hub is open Monday - Friday 9am-1pm.

The Hub is staffed by experts by experience, they can answer any questions to do with Neurodiversity, however big or small, or just be a listening ear. Please note, no diagnosis is required to access the support and the helpline is open to parents, carers and professionals.The Hub can be contacted by phone on 01727 833963, with an answerphone facility for out of hours or by email at supporthub@add-vance.org

BSquared We use BSquared for assessing some of our children who are working below their year group. We are a Gold partner with Bsquared as we work hard to ensure that all our pupils can experience success and progress on their journey and Bsquared support us to do this.

Services for parents, carers and families (hertfordshire.gov.uk)From this page you can find all the different types of support that parents and carers of children and young people with SEND might be able to access, including information on support groups, mental health, parenting courses and how to access services such as SENDIASS.

Getting help at school from your SENCO (hertfordshire.gov.uk)This page explains what the role of a SENCO is, and how parents and SENCOs can work together to achieve the best results for a pupil. It may help you to work with a parent and set out for them what to expect and how to ensure things run smoothly.

If your child is too anxious to go to school (hertfordshire.gov.uk)This page is designed to help parents whose children’s attendance is low due to anxiety, and has advice on how to support them and where to go for help.

Contact a SEND service (hertfordshire.gov.uk)This page has contact details of the different SEND services, including details of Advice Line for EPs, the SLCA team, the SpLD team and others.

New to SEND (hertfordshire.gov.uk)This page has information and advice for those whose children have just been diagnosed with SEND, or have suspected SEND.

Hertfordshire SEND strategy

The strategy takes into account what children and young people and parent carers tell Hertfordshire they need. It also follows on from the Ofsted CQC SEND area inspection, and Hertfordshire's SEND improvement plan.

Ordinarily Available ProvisionHertfordshire’s Ordinarily Available Provision guidance has been developed to support early years settings, mainstream schools, and colleges to reflect on and strengthen their provision for all children and young people, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

SPACESupporting Parents of Children with Autism/ADHD and related conditions.

ADHD and Autism Support

ADD-vance are passionate about supporting families. This is because we all live in a family with neurodivergent members. In our opinion, nobody understands living with additional needs more than the parents who have walked the walk, not just talked the talk. This is why all our trainers, coaches and most of our admin staff are parents or carers of neurodivergent children or young people. We know that sometimes we all just need a helping hand, whether that be a simple chat to another parent in the same position or something a bit more structured, like a few sessions with a professional and understanding coach. We offer a range of services throughout Hertfordshire aimed at helping parents and carers to understand and support these complex conditions.

Autism Family Support Group Informal support group for parents/carers with children who have Autism or are awaiting ASD diagnosis.