Graduated Response guidance to help you support children with additional needs in your educational setting.
Our objectives
Every Bristol education setting should be a place where all children and young people:
- feel included
- get the same chances
- are helped to do their best
If a child needs extra support, education settings should:
- find out early
- be ready to help in ways that fit the child's specific needs
This helps every child learn well and prepare for adulthood.
About the Graduated Response guidance
The guidance on this page is for staff working in early years settings, schools, alternative provision and post-16 settings. It consists of a handbook, A to Z guide and related toolkits.
The guidance:
- helps teachers and staff know what to do when a child or young person needs extra help at their education setting
- outlines the statutory duties for settings
- describes how to meet the priorities of our pdf Bristol SEND and Inclusion Strategy(3.27 MB)
- explains how to set up and deliver a graduated approach using the assess, plan, do, review cycle
- promotes a flexible, needs-led, person-centred approach to responding to the diverse needs of children and young people at every stage of their learning journey and in support of their pathway to adulthood
The guidance contains resources to help you:
- complete an audit of inclusive practice in your setting
- identify needs and barriers to learning for children and young people in your setting
- develop a graduated approach (assess, plan, do, review cycle) to support the inclusion of children and young people in your settings
We've written the guidance with:
- our colleagues in schools
- education and health professionals
- the Bristol Parent Carer Forum
Handbook and toolkits
- pdf Graduated Response guidance: handbook(1.75 MB)
- pdf Graduated Response guidance: summary(206 KB)
- pdf Graduated Response guidance: A to Z guide(1010 KB)
- default Graduated Response guidance: A to Z guide checklist(28 KB)
Graduated Response toolkits for schools, alternative provision and post-16
- pdf Useful websites and resources to support inclusion(107 KB)
- default Core expectations for inclusive practice(40 KB)
- pdf Assess: resources(91 KB)
- default Plan and do: resources(16 KB)
- default Review: resources(10 KB)
- default Observation tools and proformas(20 KB)
- pdf How to identify barriers to learning(91 KB)
- default SEND support summary(24 KB)
- default SEND support summary guidance(14 KB)
- default SEND Support Tool: downloadable summary(11 KB)
Graduated Response toolkits for Early Years
- pdf Early Years useful websites and resources(72 KB)
- default Early Years framework for universal inclusive quality practice(25 KB)
- pdf Early Years identification of needs, strategies and provision(49 KB)
- default Early Years principles and expectations of inclusive practice checklist(12 KB)
- pdf Early Years physical and sensory needs: a quick guide to calming and alerting sensory input(67 KB)
- pdf Early Years area of need: communication and interaction(100 KB)
- pdf Early Years area of need: cognition and learning(87 KB)
- pdf Early Years area of need: social, emotional and mental health(85 KB)
- pdf Early Years area of need: physical and sensory(101 KB)
More help
If you need more help, email Alison Hendy on alison.hendy@bristol.gov.uk
