Understand provision related to children’s additional needs
‘Ways to support children with EAL’ produced by Early Years Careers. You may need to pause the video to read the text.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Find and read the statutory guidance of the country you work in, if not listed below, for: Children learning in a language that is not their mother tongue Supporting children through transition ‘Looked after’ children Also, find and read the policies and procedures of your setting for children with these additional needs.
- 'Transitions for disabled children and children with SEN’ from the Council for disabled children
- 'Promoting the education of looked-after children: Statutory guidance for local authorities’ by the Department for Education
- 'Looked after children’ on the NSPCC website
- 'Attachment-informed practice with looked after children and young people’ by The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (Iriss) and Scottish Attachment in Action
- 'EYFS and EAL’ webpage on the NALDIC website
- 'Children learning English as an additional language (EAL)’ by Dorset Early Years Team
- 'Transitions' by Education Scotland
- Consider the types of transitions and significant life events the children you support may have experienced, such as:
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's first presentation on 'Supporting children with EAL'.
- Click to launch this lesson's second presentation on 'Potential effects of transitions and significant events on a child's life'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Improving the learning journey of looked after children’ by the Centre for Excellence for looked after children in Scotland.
- Click on the icon to the left to read the article on 'Transitions' on the Early Years Matters website.
- Click to read ‘Special educational needs in England’ by the Department for Education.
- Click to read ‘Early years (Under 5s) Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS)’ by the Department for Education.
- Click to access the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) pathways webpage
- Click to read 'Movin' on: Supportive transitions for infants and toddlers' by Emily Adams and Rebecca Parlakian.
- Read the section on ‘Supporting transitions’ on pages 39-48 in ‘Study of Early Education and Development: Good practice in early education.’ The research report for the Department for Education looks at transitions into settings, between settings and into school.
- Look at: ‘Looked after children with SEND’ from Buckinghamshire Council
- Extended Learning
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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