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Elevate Your Home Education Journey
Education Consultancy Service for Electively Home Educated Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Step by Step Home Ed is a specialist service available for parents and carers who Electively Home Educate their child with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Through consultations, Step by Step Home Ed work in partnership with parents and carers to identify the learning styles and needs of each child. A Personal Learning Plan will be created with five learning targets to work towards over the following eight weeks. You will be provided with activities and guidance on how to complete these activities and engage your child in their learning. Towards the end of the eight weeks, you will be offered a follow up consultation to review and record progress.
Planning, progress reviews and reports can be used to evidence your child’s learning journey for your Local Authority Elective Home Education review process.
About Step By Step Home Ed
Sarah Gourlay
BA Hons (First) Integrated Working with Children and their Families in the Early Years
Early Years Teacher Status
15+ years experience of working with children 0-19 years with SEND
SEND Tutor/Education Specialist
Inclusion Support Officer for Elective Home Education
Experience with: PECS, TEACCH, Makaton, BSL, Autism, ADHD, Global Development Delay, PMLD, and Pre-Verbal students
“ My name is Sarah and I started Step By Step Home Ed after working as an Inclusion Officer for my local authority. Even though I’ve been educating children with SEND for over 15 years, I was completely naive about how many parents were struggling to get their children into suitable education. Either waiting for Ed Psych assessments, EHCPs, EOTAS packages or a suitable space to become available. Even when a space is available, physically getting the children into a setting can be harder than it sounds and be traumatising for both children and their families. These families are left for too long to fend for themselves without support from professionals.
Step By Step Home Ed is a tailored service for families who, for whatever reason, have found themselves Electively Home Educating their child with SEND. We offer the chance to meet virtually with families to discuss their child’s learning needs, set targets and develop a Personal Learning Plan bursting with activities to complete with your child. After 8 weeks, a review will be held where we will work together to evidence the education your child is receiving. This can then be sent to your LA as additional evidence when they complete their annual reviews of the education you are providing.”
Services
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Initial Consultation
Focused 30 minute telephone call to discuss learning, strategies, resources or needs.
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Full Consultation
90 minute video call to ascertain needs, support and information which can be used to create a Personal Learning Plan
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Personal Learning Plan
Following a 90 minute consultation, you will receive a typed report with identified targets in five areas of learning.
Each area of learning will have three tailored activities aimed to support you in helping your child achieve their identified targets.
30 minute consultation review included at the end of the term
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Annual Subscripton
Coming soon.
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Resource Package
All the resources you need to be able to complete activities in your Personal Learning Plan.
*Prices depending on resources required.
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FAQs
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Step by Step Home Ed is a tailored service aimed to support parents and carers, who are Electively Home Educating their child with Special Needs and Disabilities. Many of the families we work with find themselves Electively Home Educating due to their child’s complex needs, high anxieties or unsuitable education in their area. For parents and carers, identifying suitable education targets and learning activities can feel overwhelming and time consuming. We can help take the hassle and pressure off parents and carers, allowing them to focus on their child and family needs.
Our area of expertise covers the Early Years and Primary Curriculum, with a focus on adapting and tailoring activities to support high levels of engagement and success. This service is suitable for anyone who is working at an Early Years or Primary level, no matter their age. We are an inclusive service and will look at each case individually. If you are unsure about whether our service is suitable, an Initial Consultation can be booked to help determine if we are able to support your need.
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No - your child does not need any diagnosis or an EHCP to access support through Step by Step Home Ed. Some parents do not wish for their child to go through additional test and assessments, and some families may be in the process and waiting for assessment.
Although we do not require any diagnosis or EHCP to work with you, any additional information from assessments (such as from SALT or EHCPs), can be useful to help shape the Personal Learning Plan.
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You can sign up for a consultation at any time of the year using our online booking system. After a consultation has been completed, you will receive a Personal Learning Plan.
The Personal Learning Plan will last for 8 weeks and will be reviewed towards the end of the 8 weeks. You can decide and book additional Personal Learning Plans at any time during the process.
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It is important to us at Step by Step Home Ed that you are happy with the support offered before signing up for a Personal Learning Plan.
An Initial Consultation is designed to give you some peace of mind, answer any questions and gather more information about you and your child. These are necessary to ensure we are confident that our service is the right one for you. You can book an Initial Consultation here.
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We are currently in the process of looking at how we can reward our existing and loyal customers.
Discount codes and updates on deals will be advertised on our Social Media sites so don’t forget to follow us.
Keep a look out for information regarding our annual subscription.
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Each Personal Learning Plan comes with a list of resources required for different activities. You can order resource packages online.
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The Full Consultation takes up to 90 minutes to complete. This is to ensure we are able to gather enough information to ensure activities are aimed at the right level for your child and are personalised to their interests and needs.
Following the full consultation, you should receive your Personal Learning Plan within 2 weeks. If you have not received it within this time, please notify us so we can look into this.