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Staged Intervention - a guide for parents/carers

Staged Intervention - a guide for parents/carers

Staged Intervention is the way schools and Early Learning and Childcare Centres (ELCs) assess, identify and plan to support children and young people’s additional support needs.

You will be invited to meetings in school or ELC to contribute to the assessment and planning process. These are called Team Around the Child (TAC) meetings.

Schools and ELCs use the Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) assessment framework to support their assessments and plan support.

Your views and consent should be sought at every stage.

Your child’s views and consent (where appropriate, should be sought at every stage).

Schools and ELCs use staged intervention to request assessment or support from agencies out with school and out with education where they can help your child’s learning.

All transition planning for pupils with additional support needs should be managed through staged intervention.

There are four levels of staged intervention:

Stage 1 – Monitoring

You, your child or the class teacher may have some concerns about how your child is progressing. The class teacher may suggest some different approaches or resources to try for a set period of time to support your child. There is no formal meeting for this, just a conversation with you and an update on how things have gone.

If things have improved, your child will be removed from staged intervention. If there is a need for further assessment or support, they will move to stage 2 and a meeting (TAC) meeting will be organised. You will be part of the TAC and be asked to attend meetings.

Stage 2 - Enhanced planning and support

If your child is on stage 2, they are either being assessed for an identified additional support need (ASN) or have already been identified as having an ASN. 

Appropriate support, interventions and resources will be identified and reviewed each year, unless there are further concerns, which may lead to referrals being made to professionals or agencies from out with the school/ELC. At this point your child is likely to be moved to stage 3. 

Stage 3 - Targeted planning and support

Your child has been identified as having an additional support need and requires individualised planning and regular targeted support in school. Agencies out with education may be involved in assessing or providing support.

Your Child will have a individualised plan with specific targets for them, which is called a Child’s Plan. There will be two TAC meetings per year to monitor progress and review support.

Stage 4 - Intensive planning and support

A small number of children will require a high level of individualised planning and an adapted curriculum. They are likely to require support from other agencies.

If your child is on stage 4 of staged intervention, they will have three TACs per year to review their Child’s Plan. If your child’s needs are complex in nature, they may require a Coordinated Support Plan (CSP).