Tameside Specialist Outreach Support Service (TSOSS)
TSOSS is a specialist team of multi skilled professionals, including teachers and specialist support workers. The service helps schools and settings to meet the needs of vulnerable children and young people and those with SEND. The service is available to Early Years and school-aged children and young people attending a mainstream setting within Tameside. The service offers support in relation to:
The service offers:
You can contact the service by speaking to your school SENDCO who will advise on the work that is offered.
Educational Psychology Team
Tameside Educational Psychology Service support children and young people aged between 0 – 25 years who may be finding it difficult to manage in their school/educational setting. Although we may work with individual pupils, we also work with other services and organisations to support positive change, e.g. the virtual school, mental health support teams and early years etc.
We complete statutory work (as part of the Education Health Care Plan process), are a traded service that Tameside schools can buy in (e.g. providing consultations (meetings), assessments, interventions, research and training) and have a universal (free) offer to schools with includes online workshops, supporting Barriers to Education, Emotionally Friendly Settings project, critical incident support and Local Authority Systemic work.
We are a large and innovative community of EPs who focus on facilitating positive change through using research and psychological approaches along with practice-based evidence. Our vision is for all Children and Young People and their communities thrive.
Tameside Vision Impairment Team
The Vision Impairment (VI) Service supports with the needs of children with vision impairments in Tameside. The team provides practical advice and strategies to families, schools and other settings about all aspects of reduced functional vision and its impact on children’s educational, social and emotional development.
Tameside Service for Children and Young People with a Hearing Impairment
The service is for children with a diagnosis of a permanent or long-term hearing loss from 0-19 years of age, and for children with an Educational Health Care Plan from 0-25 years of age.
The team comprises of qualified Teachers of the Deaf, including a Teacher of the Deaf with an Educational Audiologist background, Early Years’ Specialist Teachers of the Deaf, Specialist Support Assistants and an Admin Manager.
Most children and young people who have an Education, Health, and Care plan will attend a mainstream school or provision. For some, it might be right for that child or young person to go to a specialist setting, school, or college, or an enhanced resource base. To go to a special school or an enhanced resource base in a mainstream school, a child or young person must have an Education, Health and Care Plan which sets out the specialist support necessary for the child/young person.
More info on Educational, Health & Care Plans