Supporting Children with SEND

Our Special Educational Coordinators

Shannon is our fully trained SENCo

Emma is our fully trained Deputy SENCo

At Penny Bridge Nursery we strive to support all children to make rapid progress and reach their full potential (and even beyond!)

We have a very secure, confident and proficient procedure to ensure that we identify children's needs early, tightly tailor our learning and most importantly use parents or carers as amazing, wonderful partners in the journey to support their child's needs effectively!

From our latest Ofsted report (June 2025);

'Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive highly effective support. Staff work very closely with parents and carers to ensure that strategies are tailored and consistent. They are highly focused on ensuring that resources and activities are accessible for all children and support their individual needs. Staff are proactive in forging partnerships with other professionals. They are diligent when spending funding to ensure it has maximum impact for child' 

Please check out our SEND policy by clicking here 

Please check out our detailed SEND Local offer document by clicking here

Or you can check out; Our Penny Bridge Nursery Local Offer Page on the CCC website by clicking here

SEND Support Links

• SEN Local offer; wealth of knowledge of everything available in regard to SEN (Ran by CCC)
• SEND IASS; Impartial legal and supportive advice for parents of children with SEND (Ran by CCC)
• Council for disabled children; We work collaboratively, from policy into practice, to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people 
• Council for disabled children; Youtube videos
• Portage; Portage is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with SEND and their families.
• Children's Community Learning Disability and Behaviour Support Service for Parents (South Cumbria); Support to understand and meet the health needs of children with learning disabilities, global developmental delay and autism.
• Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (known as IPSEA) IPSEA offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We also provide training on the SEND legal framework to parents and carers, professionals and other organisations.
• Contact. We support families with the best possible guidance and information for families with disabled children
• Disability Living Allowance explained; Contact
• The Special Educational Needs (SEN) Inclusion Fund explained; CCC
• Disability Access Fund explained; CCC
• National Autistic Society; We are the UK's leading charity for people on the autism spectrum and their families.
• iCan; I CAN is the children’s communication charity, we have tonnes of support and knowledge on children's speech and language needs