Contents

  1. Services for schools
  2. Advice on personal development, behaviour and safety
  3. Continuing Professional Development
  4. Equality and diversity service for schools
  5. New Arrivals Team and Bilingual Language Assistant Service
  6. School improvement services
  7. Schools Forum
  8. Schools ICT
  9. Special Educational Needs Service
  10. Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)
  11. Strategic School Improvement
  12. Teaching and learning advisors
  13. Ordinarily Available Guidance

Ordinarily Available Provision refers to the setting based interventions and services that all Merton schools, early years and post 16 settings should be able to provide for children or young people, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), from within their own resources. By outlining a set of expectations within this Ordinarily Available Guidance, we are encouraging consistency between schools or settings across Merton. This guidance is intended to support schools or settings to reflect and develop their inclusive provision to benefit all the children or young people in the school or setting, including those with SEND.

 This guidance covers four broad areas of need: communication and interaction, cognition and learning, social, emotional and mental health, and sensory or physical needs. For each area, there are suggestions for strategies and interventions that can be used by all members of school staff and families alike, as well as examples of good practice from schools.