Derby SEND Advice Line
About the Derby SEND Advice Line
The Derby SEND Advice Line (DSAL) is an early advice service for SENCos, inclusion leaders and other frontline professionals such as GPs and family workers.
It can help you to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND as early as possible.
DSAL supports settings with an early conversation to help guide them through the graduated approach and signpost to next steps and resources to support meeting needs.
The advice line helps professionals to talk through the main worries or difficulties for a child or young person including:
- academic development and progress
- social and emotional development
- transition concerns
- social and communication difficulties
- behaviour concerns.
You can also contact DSAL if you are thinking about requesting an EHC needs assessment, to talk about your worries and to help you to decide whether a statutory assessment is the most appropriate route to support a child or young person.
Parent and carers should contact SENDIASS for advice.