Swift and Easy Access
Swift and easy access (SEA) is about schools working closely with other services to identify and support children and young people with emotional, behavioural, health or other difficulties as early as possible. Working in this integrated way, with health and social care for example, has real potential to help rmove some of the barriers to learning faced by children and young people of all ages.
Where problems do emerge, SEA ensures the early identification of and support for those problems, within the school wherever possible, drawing up on the multi-agency or locality teams developed under the children's trust arrangements. But with more serious cases the child or young person will need to be referred to services outside of the school. In those cases, effective SEA arrangements will ensure timely and accurate assessment, referral and intervention, and good links between the child and family, the school and the services provider(s) concerned.
There are a range of specialist health and social care services that children, young people and adults need to access at different times in their lives which support both their wellbeing and their ability to learn. Examples of specialist services are: speech and language therapy; child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS); family support services; intensive behaviour support; support from counsellors; and (for young people) sexual health services. Scroll to the bottom of this page to read case studies and specfic guidance.
(Source: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/ )
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