Inclusive Learning Services

The service

Inclusive Learning Services are a new service within the Transition Division. It was established in January 2003 through the rationalisation of the SEN Support Service and Behaviour Support Service into a single support provision.

We are a statutory service, which provides access to an inclusive educational opportunity for vulnerable children and young people.

We work in partnership with Health, Youth Justice Board and a wide range of agencies both within and external to the local authority.

What service is offered

We work in partnership with other agencies within and outside Children's Services, to provide a range of services:

• Specialist advice to schools/settings, parents and other agencies in order to help them to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs/emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Specialist advice to schools/settings, parents and other agencies in order to help them to meet the needs of children and young people currently not accessing educational opportunities
• Direct support to children and young people with severe and complex special educational needs
• Direct support to children and young people who are excluded or at risk of exclusion from mainstream schools
• Support and training to schools, local authority staff and other agencies in meeting the needs of pupils with special educational needs/additional/educational needs and emotional/behavioural difficulties
• Specialist services and support for pupils/parents with sensory Impairment.
• Specialist services and support for pupils/carers of children in public care
• Specialist services and support for pregnant schoolgirls/teenage parents.
• Assessment of individual pupil’s specialist equipment and access needs in order to enable them to actively participate in educational provision
• Assessment of pupils needs in order to help them to fully participate and make progress
• Provision of education other than at school for identified children and young people
• Advice to, and participation in, a range of local authority strategic development groups in order to ensure all pupils have the opportunity to access a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum

Statutory duties

• To provide full-time education for all excluded pupils from day 15 of the exclusion
• To ensure access to appropriate educational opportunities for all pupils educated other than at school

Who to contact

Name

Inclusive Learning Services

Address

First Floor
Burrows House
10 Priestley Road
Wardley Industrial Estate
Worsley
M28 2LY
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This page was last updated on 26 September 2011