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        • Two year olds
          • Frequently asked questions
        • Three and four year olds
        • 30 hours funded childcare
          • Grace period
          • How to apply - foster parents
        • Stretched offer
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        • Questions about funded childcare
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        • Eligible age range
        • Parental declaration information
      • Early Years Foundation Stage
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        • Voluntary childcare register
      • Complaints about childcare
      • Closure support
      • Childcare sufficiency
    • Education and learning
      • Pre-school (2 - 5 years)
      • School readiness
        • Individual challenge cards
      • School aged (5 - 16 years)
        • Search for a school
        • Exclusion from school
      • College, training and employment (16+)
    • Activities
      • School holiday activities
      • Holiday Food Provision 2019
      • Adventure playgrounds
      • Leicester's Playday
      • Pop up play
      • Summer Youth Activities
      • Museums this Summer
    • Parenting support
      • Parenting advice
      • Internet Safety
      • Support for dads
      • Grandparents
    • Family finance
      • Money advice and debt support
      • Universal Credits
      • School uniform
    • Family health
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      • Healthy start vouchers
      • Health for Under 5s
      • Talk Matters
      • Health support for parents
  • Children's Centres
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    • Activity timetables
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    • Our vision
    • Welfare rights support
    • Emergency help for vulnerable families
    • Room booking
    • Contact Children's Centres
    • Health visiting team
    • Peep
    • Get up and go
    • Get up and go calendar
      • Bushey park
      • Family fun day at Highfields library
      • Family fun day at Rushey Mead library
      • Family fun day at St Matthews library
      • Family fun day at Aylestone library
      • Family fun day at St Barnabas library
      • Family fun day at Brite Centre
      • Space steps and stories - Beaumont Leys
      • Space steps and stories - Highfields
      • Family fun day at Hamilton library
      • Family fun day - Knighton library
      • Space steps and stories - Belgrave
    • Leicester Moon Walk
  • SEND Local Offer
    • About SEND
      • What to do if you think your child has SEND
        • Definition of special educational needs and disability
        • Broad areas of SEN
      • Education, health and care assessment and plans
        • Request for a statutory EHC assessment
        • Statutory assessment timescale
        • Statutory assessment request decision
          • Criteria
        • Introductory meeting
        • Integrated assessment meeting
        • Resources allocation panel
        • Personal budgets
        • Implementation meeting
        • EHC plan review
          • Person centred review
        • Mediation, appeals and resolutions
          • Mediation
          • SEND Tribunal
          • Disagreement resolution
          • Complaints procedure
          • Single route of redress
        • Home to school transport
      • SEND reforms
      • SEND Strategy
        • SEND Strategy Consultation
    • Early years
      • Identifying SEND in the early years
      • What is expected in the early years
      • SEND and funded childcare
    • Schools and learning
      • General requirements for schools
      • Schools and hearing impairment
      • Schools and visual impairment
      • Different types of special educational needs
        • General learning difficulties
        • Specific learning difficulties (Dyslexia)
        • Specific learning difficulties (Dyspraxia)
        • Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)
        • Speech and language difficulties
        • Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
        • Physical and sensory
      • Schools and colleges out of area
      • School admissions - EHC plans
        • Secondary transfer for EHC plans
          • Transition to secondary school
        • Choosing a school
    • Care and support
      • Care, support and personal assistants
      • The Care Act
    • Health and wellbeing
      • Children's continuing care
      • Transitions in health
      • Find a health service
    • Preparing for adulthood
      • Education, learning and work
        • Education and training opportunities
      • Friends, relationships and the community
      • Independence and independent living
        • Thinking about independence
      • Planning for good health
        • Some things to think about
        • Who can help?
      • Staying safe
        • Some more things to think about
      • Transition
        • Request a transition assessment
        • Things to think about
        • Leaving child services support
    • Money Matters
      • Grants and allowances
      • Direct payments
    • Search for services
      • Local authority support services
        • Early years support
        • Learning, communication and interaction team
        • Vision support
        • Hearing impairment
        • Primary social, emotional and mental health
        • Leicester partnership school
        • City psychology service
        • Special Education Service
      • School support for children with SEND
      • Support to find a service
      • NHS Trust services
      • Independent advice
    • You said, we did
    • Your voice
      • Parent Carer Forum
      • Big Mouth Forum
      • Preparing for adulthood group
      • Advocacy groups
    • About Local Offer
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      • Capital fund for Local Offer 2019
      • SEND provision places survey
      • Transition support for young people consultation
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        • Meet the services at Local Offer Live
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  • Disabled Children's Service
    • Short breaks
      • Activity brochures
    • Taking part
    • Personal assistants
    • Disabled Children's Register
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      • Equipment hire
        • Equipment hire terms and conditions
      • Occupational therapy team
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    • Eligibility criteria
    • News and events
      • Grants and funding
      • Events and activities
      • News and information
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      • Independent travel training
    • Easy Read documents
  • Childcare Professionals
    • Funded early education administration
      • Provider agreement
        • Resources support
      • Notification of stretched and extended hours
    • Self update provider portal
    • Early Education Development
      • Childcare registration and advice
      • Tools and resources
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      • Sector support
        • About sector support
        • Quality Improvement Framework
          • Section 1 - Safeguarding
          • Section 2 - Leadership and management
          • Section 3 - Teaching and learning
          • Section 4 - Inclusive practice
          • Section 5 - Reflective practice
          • Section 6 - School readiness
          • Section 7 - Effective business management
          • Section 8 - Policies and procedures
          • Section 9 - Healthy Living
          • Action Plan Templates
          • Quality Improvement Guidance Notes
          • Quality improvement process guide
        • Q Cards
          • Enjoy and achieve
          • Organisation and leadership
          • Positive contribution
          • Healthy Living
          • Reflective Practice
        • Quality Forum
        • EYFS Network
        • Sector guidance links
      • Safeguarding guidance
    • Working in childcare
    • SEND for professionals
      • Inclusive provision in Early Years
      • SEN inclusion fund
      • Disability access fund
    • Data collections
      • Early Years Census
      • Holiday childcare cost survey
      • CSA collection
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