Yes absolutely because SEND is everyone's responsibility but you need to feel confident to work positively with the children so you need to understand more about SEND.

Absolutely yes. We need to make sure the whole workforce across education, health and care have a good understanding of disability and how to support children and young people in a person centred way that works for them. Are you aware of the Dingley's Promise Early Years training offer? Might be worth a look https://dingley.org.uk/dingleys-promise-training/early-years-inclusion-programme/

Absolutely agree! It has to be mandatory and a joined up approach in schools to support SEND and not just support staff and / or few other staff.
It allows for consistency, confidence and a sense of competence amongst other benefits.

I agree, the needs of children in settings seem to increasing in the number of children with complex needs. However, I also think that whilst training for all is essential the lack of funding and resources means that even with the training the ability to meet the needs of all children adequately is becoming impossible.

I agree completely as a registered childminder with over 25 years experience every cohort brings on more differences and levels of support needed, I highly recommend dingleys promise as well I also wish when I did my level 3 in early years all those years ago send wasn't just 1 chapter. Also any kind of training you do to support children with Send should benefit the rest of the children so its a win win for children and staff

Absolutely. Early Years provision is vital in early diagnosis and intervention as well as the obvious benefits to the children and staff that having appropriately trained caregivers makes.

This is an ongoing mission for me as a nursery manager to ensure all staff are trained in some way to meet the needs and demands of the ever-growing number of high SEND children.
They are the practitioners working on a practical level day in and day out. They don't need someone to constantly hold their hand and direct them on what to do for every little concern from the nursery SENCO. Yes, the nursery SENCO will overall manage the SEND cohort and continue to support staff. To be honest, all staff naturally get trained through their own experience. BUT... there is a high need for all staff to be trained. It would be ideal if this learning was incorporated within the L2 EYP / L3 EYE. My setting has over a third of SEND children.