What Support Is Available For Early Years Children (0-5 Years)?

A delay in learning and development in the early years may or may not indicate that
a child has special educational needs (SEN), that is, that they have a learning difficulty or disability that calls for special educational provision. Equally, difficult or withdrawn behaviour does not necessarily mean that a child has SEN. However, where there are concerns, there should be an assessment to determine whether there are any causal factors such as an underlying learning or communication difficulty.

For children over 2 years old who requires a special educational provision that is additional to or different from that of which other children generally are of the same age,  early years providers are responsible for deciding what external support to seek.

For a child under 2 years of age, special educational provision means educational
provision of any kind.

All early years providers must make arrangements for children who have or may have SEN, this would be the SENCo in a maintained nursery school or the management in other early years provision. Usually the child’s key person, remains responsible for working with the child on a daily basis and supported by the SENCO who oversee interventions or programmes are carried out as agreed with parents as part of SEN support.   Here is further information on support in early years Support for children aged 0-5 – Warwickshire County Council

You can arrange a meeting with the nursery’s SENCo who can seek advice and support from outside agencies: Specialist support services – Warwickshire County Council