SENco and Preschool SEN home visit. What will they do?

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Preschool want to do a home visit with the SENCo. I have agreed to it but I have no idea what they are coming for so can anyone advise me what they will want to discuss so I can be prepared.

DS is 3 and has had two settling in sessions so far and they havent gone well.

They probably just want to observe him at home - see if he is different to how he is at school.

And also talk to you in a more relaxed informal setting.

Personally I'd be honest about how things are......

We had ESCO do a home visit, they were involved to help support us with DS's extra needs. We had the house immaculate ready for them, they went looking around DS's bedroom, noticed his bed was wet (this hadn't happened over the duration of like a year) but DS's bed was wet and as he'd got himself out of bed we hadn't known. What a horrible moment. The ESCO worker went on to suggest he might be suffering trauma if he's bed wetting. Now we have the bleeding social services about to do another home visit, bringing up, at a meeting in front of nursery workers and all; 'so there was urine in DS's bed'
flippen heck, we invited them into our homes, and what do we get.
We can't refused social services access to do home checks, but I'm not happy with it, with their critism. How the hell does that help

So yeah, check every every every single detail about your house.

Thanks, my house is a right state, im doomed! Im amazed that they would expect me to have a spotless house when we can hardly function at the moment. Oh gawd.....

What is an ESCO?

yukoncher had a terrible experience. But there is no reason to expect that you will have the same. It's different people, probably in a different county, probably visiting for a different reason...

Don't get too paranoid. Most people's house's are messy.

Just treat them like you would treat any other guest.....

May be they feel they need to have a chat to discuss what support to put in place or need to complete some paperwork but feel that as the settling in didn't go well, preschool isn't the right place to do it as your ds wasn't happy there. Fwiw I've had visits from a large number of professionals and none of them have gone anywhere other than the sitting room in the house.

I have to say my experience is the same as Ninja - no-one has gone anywhere other than in the downstairs area.