[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, the list below contains suggestions to help you identify what, and who you might have available to you in your area. Build a list of places that you would personally approach to ask for professional support and advice

• Your manager or headteacher or lead, supervisor, committee chairperson, SENCO?
• Your setting's paperwork - policies, procedures, contract, publications, framework pages, laws
• Your colleagues
• Where appropriate the settings parent partnership
• Advisory teacher services?
• Your local authority and their online information - you can find it on direct.gov.uk
• Social services
• Charity and support groups close to you and maybe nationally/head office if the information you're looking for isn't found or not a relevant as you'd hoped.
• Local safeguarding teams?
• Local children and information services - early years development officers?
• Local health visitor
• Local behavioural support team
• Child protection team
• Other professional service providers: speech therapy, fire safety, police, life guard, rspca
• Websites - NHS, DoH, HSE, CAPT, ofsted, CAB, NSPCC, businesslink
• Trade union representative
• Local library where reference and reasearch books might support new knowledge

Hth