2.2 Explain How To Support Children And Young People In Schools

As they say, everyone is different, no two people are the same, but just because someone is different to you or others around them it doesn’t make them any less worthy. Everybody has the right to equality and this should be applied throughout, and not just in schools and colleges. The children I support are all different and they all have their own individual needs and ways of learning. I always work to accommodate their needs without embarrassing them or making them stand out to others. There are frameworks in place within school to support children and young people who may have additional needs when accessing the curriculum. Firstly the legal definition used for these children and young people needing support when they have a learning difficulty …show more content…
There is a code of practice (SEN Code of Practice 2015) in place that offers guidelines on how to identify, assess and provide help/support for children and young people who have special educational needs as they have a right to access the curriculum in a mainstream learning environment. Children or young people with SEN will usually be provided with support in mainstream settings from early education, up to further education, sometimes outside specialists are brought in to offer this help and support because children and young people learn in different ways, have different levels of SEN or different kind of SEN. Extra help in some schools is known as ‘School Action’ the school has a duty to inform parents and carers of this if their child is being given extra help, or different help because the child has SEN. ‘School Action’ could be a different way of teaching a child certain things, extra help from an adult or having specialist equipment for a child,