🛬Barking & Dagenham🛬 SEND Local Offer Newsletter
MAY 2025
Smooth and effective transitions are crucial for Success
The term ‘transition’ can be used to describe any education changes for your child with special education needs and disability as they are moving into, within, between and out of educational settings.
The SEND Code of Practice states:
‘’Early years providers and schools should support children so that they are included in social groups and develop friendships. This is particularly important when children are transferring from one phase of education to another (for example from nursery to primary school.)’’
When a child or young person with SEND approaches a change in their educational setting, or a new phase in their education, they may experience a range of emotions including excitement, anticipation and anxiety. This can affect both the child or young person and their parents/carers.
Resource Sharing:
Moving Up! The transition to secondary school (SUBTITLED) – Anna Freud
Moving Up! The transition to secondary school is an animation aimed to help year 7 and 6 pupils feel more confident, less anxious and better equipped to cope with the changes associated with moving to secondary school.
Starting or switching school – National Autistic Society
In this guide, we look at how to prepare your child for this change and suggest what you can do to support them. We also look at what their school can do to help support you.
Top tips to help when your child changes schools - Contact
Top tips to help when your child changes schools – Contact
Listen to the podcast episode all about helping your disabled child make the move to secondary school.
These tried and tested tips were prepared by a special educational needs teacher and a group of parents to help parents and children navigate changes of school, for example from nursery to primary, or junior to secondary, or if you move and have to start school in another area.
In the article:
- Talking to the school
- Preparing your child
- Getting organised
- To think about for secondary school
Whatever you are worried about, we have got advice to support you. It is important to help prepare the child or young person for this, to ensure that the experience is as positive as it can be, and the transition is successful.
Useful Contact
- MASH Team: 020 8227 3811 (Monday-Friday) 020 8215 3000 (Out of duty hours)
- Child at immediately risk, call police on 999
- SENDIASS (Carer’s Hub): 020 8593 4422 / carers@carerscentre.org.uk
- Travel Assistance: request@lbbd.gov.uk
- Early Help Service/Family Hubs: 020 8227 5600 / familynavigators@lbbd.gov.uk
- CYP Disability Hub: 0208 227 5500 / CYPDHub@lbbd.gov.uk
- Family Information Team: 020 8227 5395 / fis@lbbd.gov.uk
- Education Inclusion Team: inclusion@lbbd.gov.uk
- Adult Social Care Intake Team (Transition): 020 8227 2915 / IntakeTeam@lbbd.gov.uk
- EHCP Team: 020 8227 2400 / EHCenquires@lbbd.gov.uk
- School Nursing Team: 0300 300 1813 / DutydeskchildrenBD@nelft.nhs.uk
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