Swindon Portage

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Name

Swindon Portage

Service details

We are a small team of early years professionals who have had extensive experience of working with children in a range of settings. All Portage teachers hold the Portage Basic workshop certificate and deliver education to children with special needs in the Portage way of working in addition to taking account of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

We deliver education to children with special needs in their own home term time only, building on the skills your child already has. We work with you to break each goal into small steps. We give you time to discuss what you want to achieve and will design individual plans to meet the needs of your family including the ideas from therapists.

Price

Where children are in receipt of Free entitlement funding we require 2.5hrs to be allocated to the Portage service

Main telephone

01793 465360

Email

Swindonportage@swindon.gov.uk

The page was last updated on 26 May 2020

Service summary

Provides an educational home visiting service.

Further information

We provide an educational home visiting service linking with other professionals and agencies to ensure continuity and consistency. If you wish we can do joint visits with another professional. We will support your child into pre-school and school. We can act as lead professional and  arrange team around the child meetings.

We provide an educational home visiting service linking with other professionals and agencies to ensure continuity and consistency. If you wish we can do joint visits with another professional. We will support your child into pre-school and school. We can act as lead professional and arrange team around the child meetings.

Client groups

A child may be referred to Swindon Portage for the home visiting programme if; the child has identified complex needs and is either receiving multi professional input or is likely to require it before they start school. This may also include children who have significant medical conditions.

Main address

Salt Way Centre
Pearl Road
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN5 5TD