Rodney House provides an outreach service to families and settings of children with SEND aged 0-5 across the city.
RHOSEY outreach for families provide support directly to children through individual and group work. The outreach for families team work with families who have a child aged between 0-5 years old not in a setting who meet referral criteria.
RHOSEY Outreach for Settings role is to work with practitioners from Early Years settings throughout Manchester in an outreach capacity, offering advice and support in their work with children who have been identified as having additional needs.
Together we offer training to practitioners in Early Years Settings and School Nurseries in areas such as:
- Working with children with SEND
- The role of the SENCO
- Supporting and managing behaviour
- Supporting effective communication
- Working with children with Downs Syndrome
- This year we are offering the Early Years SENCO award training to Manchester SENCO's
We deliver termly Early Years SENCO Networks covering a range of topics and updates to support EY SEND practice.
Our service is part of a city wide initiative involving the Primary and High Specialist Support Schools and other specialist provisions.
The service is highly valued throughout the Local Authority as shown by the high demand for the service and the very positive evaluations of work already carried out.
Manager: Donna Griffin
For more information, please contact the outreach team: 0161 230 3675 or email rhosey@rodneyhouse.manchester.sch.uk
What does RHOSEY Outreach offer to families?
Through regular input, the team will identify and record developmental stages and plan small steps learning through play activities and behaviour strategies.
We work together with parents/carers to develop their child’s learning skills.
1-1 or targeted group work
Advice and signposting to appropriate services.
Work together with other professionals such as Physiotherapy, SaLT and Educational Psychologists to meet the needs of a child.
Support the child to transition into a setting successfully
What does Outreach offer Early Years settings?
Support Early Years Settings to assess individual children whose development is causing concern.
Work with the child’s key worker and SENCO on how to plan and facilitate further progress and guidance to meet the needs of the child.
Support the provider in identifying next steps and follow-up progress.
Support the setting in transition planning when necessary.
Support settings to ensure consistency of support to children.
Liaise with other professionals such as Educational Psychologists and therapists to help setting practitioners meet the needs of the child.
RHOSEY also offers:
Training
Training is available to:
- develop skills of Early Years settings to include children with disabilities and/or special educational needs
- empower Early Years practitioners to support children with disabilities and/or special educational needs in the longer term from within their own resources
- Early years SENCO award training
In reach
- Opportunities for staff to visit the assessment provision and group sessions in our bases.
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The RHOSEY approach
- Partnership with parents, carers and other professionals with a commitment to inclusion.
- Empowering parents and settings to build on a child’s strengths using a positive approach.
- Using small steps to support learning.
- Learning through play and having fun.
- Working together and celebrating achievements with the child and their family.
RHOSEY has a long and successful track record of supporting settings and families of pre-school children with significant developmental delay or challenging behaviour.
The RHOSEY team has a wealth of experience in understanding, recognising, and developing the individual needs of children.
Working in partnership
RHOSEY is a partnership between the parent, child and or setting. For RHOSEY to be effective, parents and settings must be committed to carrying out agreed activities, strategies and actions consistently and on a regular basis.
RHOSEY is at its most effective when the RHOSEY team works closely with all those involved with the child, for example, Therapists, Health Visitors, Educational Psychologists and Early Years Settings. This helps to ensure that everyone works towards shared common goals.
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You can download a copy of our RHOSEY information leaflet below, which has some further information about our service and how to refer.
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