The templates are Kent's new documentation to support planning and decision making for SEN. The SEN Code of Practice (2001) emphasises that SEN provision is appropriate only for pupils requiring action that is additional to or different from normal activities in the classroom. The templates provide guidance on those actions that are additional to or different from the variety of approaches that should be employed to maximise the achievement of all pupils and which are not part of special educational provision.

At Early Years/School Action and Early Years/School Action Plus they suggest activities in which the school/setting, Local Learning Group and District may be engaged in response to children's needs. They have moved away from purely individual assessments and resource allocations and look instead at the child or young person's needs in relation the total resource already available in, and to, the school/setting. At the point of statutory assessment, they provide clear threshold criteria and expectations of prior intervention.

• Templates for SEN: Explanatory Notes
• Templates for SEN: Cognition & Learning: Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Emotional & Behaviour Development Scale
• Templates for SEN: Behavioural, Emotional & Social Development: Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Communication & Interaction (Speech & Language Difficulties): Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Communication & Interaction (Autistic Spectrum Disorders): Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Communication & Interaction Scales
• Templates for SEN: Sensory and Physical Development (Hearing Impairment): Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Sensory and Physical Development (Physical and Medical Difficulties): Statutory Action
• Templates for SEN: Sensory and Physical Development (Visual Impairment): Statutory Action

• Guidance for the completion of Appendix B
• Appendix B - pre school (request for statutory assessment/educational advice)
• Appendix B - school age (request for statutory assessment/educational advice)