Glasgow City Council has a duty, as outlined in the Standards in Scotland’s Schools 2000 Act, to ensure that your child achieves their potential. Glasgow’s Education Service is committed to the inclusion of all children and young people with additional support needs, where possible, within mainstream schools. This is in accordance with the statutory requirement in the 2000 Act. It is also part of Glasgow’s policy to maintain a range of special educational establishments. This recognises the key role to be played by specialist provisions in addressing severe low incidence disabilities. The authority recognises that there are a wide range of factors, which may act as a barrier to your child’s learning. We are committed to working closely with parents and carers to ensure that you are fully involved in overcoming barriers to learning. Additional support needs may be linked to a learning difficulty or disability but could also apply to a child or young person suffering from bereavement who requires pastoral support, a more able child/young person or those with a particular talent, which needs to be fully developed. The policy requires all establishments to provide an environment where children and young people with additional support needs are actively encouraged to be effective learners and benefit from their school education.

Any parent or carer seeking further advice regarding this policy should, in the first instance, contact the Head of Establishment. If you are unhappy with the support your child is getting, you must first discuss this with the nursery in order to seek a resolution at that very local level.

Further information relating to Additional Support Needs is also available on the Glasgow City Council website:
www.glasgow.gov.uk/indez.aspx?acticleid=8627

The establishment has a duty to ensure that all our children have equal access to the curriculum, supported as appropriate to their individual needs. This covers not only the content of planned experiences and teaching strategies, but also minor adaptations to the physical environment to address the needs of children with physical or sensory impairments.

All staff within the nursery work together as a team, offering support to each other and involving parents in their child’s learning. Staff are supported through a variety of training both in-house and out, and also gain support from other professionals. We work very closely with other agencies, for example, Speech and Language Therapist, Physiotherapist, Educational Psychological Services, Early Years Inclusion Support teachers and other outside agencies who are welcome to visit your child at nursery, with your approval.
If your child requires additional support, we work together with the parents and carers and any agency that is required to best meet the needs of your child. If appropriate a Wellbeing Assessment Plan (WAP) will be created, which will highlight particular areas requiring support. This will be made in conjunction with the child’s key worker, parents and carers, and agencies involved.
If you have any concerns regarding your child’s development, please do not hesitate to speak to either your child’s key worker, or a member of the management team. If your key worker has any concerns , she/he will arrange to meet with you and support you in any way possible.

We also need to ensure parents and carers with disabilities have equal access to information about their child. This will involve for example relocating venues for parent and carers meetings to facilitate physical access provision, or an interpreter for people with hearing impairments and agreeing a phone contact system to provide direct feedback to parents who may need this.