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Quick Checker – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

Noticing concerns and identifying barriers within the Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) area of need

Part of
Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool

The purpose of this pathway is to ensure every child and young person in a Somerset school receives the support they are entitled to

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Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool: Step by step

The purpose of this pathway is to ensure every child and young person in a Somerset school receives the support they are entitled to

1Statutory Special Educational Needs (SEN) information

  1. Statutory Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) information

2Understanding the Graduated Response

  1. Somerset Inclusion Tool (SIT)
  2. What is the Graduated Response?
  3. The Assess, Plan, Do, Review Cycle
  4. Screening and Assessment Tools as part of the APDR process
  5. Education, Health and Care Plans (EHC plans)

3Funding

  1. Funding
  2. Available funding for SEN

4Expectations for Teachers, Governors, SENCOs and Headteachers

  1. What different people in schools should do
  2. School Governors’ responsibilities
  3. Headteachers’ responsibilities
  4. Teachers’ responsibilities
  5. SENCOs’ responsibilities

5Expectations for Whole School Inclusion

  1. Expectations for Whole School Inclusion

6Quick checkers

  1. Quick Checker – Cognition and Learning
  2. Quick Checker – Communication and Interaction
  3. Quick Checker – Sensory and Physical
  4. Quick Checker – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

7Inclusion for each Broad Area of Need

Information about the four areas of need set out in the Code of Practice

  1. Inclusion for each Broad Area of Need

8Cognition and Learning

  1. Universal – Cognition and Learning
  2. SEN support – Cognition and Learning
  3. How can I find out more? – Cognition and Learning

9Communication and Interaction

  1. Universal – Communication and Interaction
  2. SEN Support – Communication and Interaction
  3. How can I find out more? – Communication and Interaction

10Sensory and Physical

  1. Universal – Sensory and Physical
  2. SEN Support – Sensory and Physical
  3. How can I find out more? – Sensory and Physical

11Social, Emotional and Mental Health

  1. Universal – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
  2. SEN support – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
  3. How can I find out more? – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

12Graduated Response Tool – Complex Medical Needs

  1. Graduated Response Tool – Complex Medical Needs

13Supporting tools, documents and signposting

  1. Supporting tools, documents and signposting

Introduction

The Quick Checker can be used to support conversations between class teachers and parent carers at the initial concern stage. The Quick Checker is not a diagnostic tool but it is designed to identify barriers within the Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) area of need.

Quick Checker for Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

For the statements below, consider if there are concerns for the child or young person’s:

  • ability to plan, attend, organise, regulate themselves and manage change
  • level of hypervigilance and their disproportionate ‘fight, flight, freeze’ response
  • attendance at school – refer to the Department for Education’s guidance ‘Working together to Improve School Attendance’
  • maintaining healthy peer relationships and friendships
  • behaviour at home that may not be seen at school
  • engagement with the curriculum
  • changes in demeanour and/or appearance
  • unpredictability of behaviour with a lack of obvious triggers
  • low confidence and/or self-esteem
  • failure to make anticipated progress across many areas of the curriculum

Quick Checkers to download

Last updated: November 13, 2024

Next review due: May 13, 2025

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