Ensure a multi-agency assessment to identify persistent and complex needs.

Provide access to assessment and advice from external services such as the Inclusion Service,  Bury’s Speech and Language Therapy Service  , Educational Psychology Service, CAMHS, to tailor programmes and activities to support individual children’s speech and language development, including attention and listening skills and social skills.

School staff deliver and support daily, individualised targeted intervention, based on support and guidance from external services.

Black Sheep provides resources for teachers and speech and language therapists working with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and speech, language & communication needs (SLCN).

Certain interventions may require specialist training from a Speech and Language Therapist, for example Narrative Speech Therapy.

Use the Assess- Plan-Do-Review-Learn (APDRL) process to monitor the child’s progress, alongside any external agencies' advice, whilst collating evidence of the impact of the strategies being used (see the ‘SENCO Best Practice’ section).

Where the child has an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), refer to described outcomes and provision and implement.  Continue to use the APDRL process against the specified outcomes and provision.  Regularly update with strategies as they are tried.  Complete Annual Review of EHCP (see the EHCP information within the ‘SENCO Best Practice’ section). Continue to request and act on advice from external agencies as necessary.