Childcare/education
Sure Start settings
Grants & funding
Inclusion
Publications
DfES Publication line Tel: 0845 60 222 60 Fax: 0845 60 333 60 or email DfES publications.
- Booktouch (Bookstart pack for blind and partially sighted babies & children aged birth to 4 years)
- Inclusion Resources List (Sure Start & others)
- Direct Payments for Disabled Children - a list of Frequently asked Questions (Every Child Matters website)
- SEN Code of Practice (TeachNet website)
- Continence Policy - an example for LAs & settings to use
- Kids Inclusion Framework for Local Authorities
- All of Us - Inclusion Checklist for Settings
- Area Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) - Supporting Early Identification and Intervention for Children with Special Educational Needs
- Early Years and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Every Child Matters website)
- Early Years and the Disability Discrimination Act - what service providers need to know
- Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings
- Parents' Guide to Direct Payments (Department of Health website)
- Recruitment and retention of disabled people - An appendix to the Good practice Guide.
- Removing Barriers to Achievement - The Government’s Strategy for SEN
- Special Educational Needs, A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Supporting families who have children with special needs and disabilities
- Sure Start for Every Child - care options for children aged 0-11years
- Sure Stare for Every Young Person - care options for 12+years
- Together from the Start- Practical Guidance for Professionals Working with Disabled Children.
- Working with Family Diversity
- Working Families fact sheets for parents with disabled children (Working Families website)
- Working with Young Children who have Special Needs or Disabilities - A Guide to Sources of Information