The study, carried out by research assistant Carolyn Blackburn at Sunfield Research Institute in Worcestershire, looked at how pre-school staff support children with special educational needs.
Just under half of the 44 pre-schools who took part in the study revealed they had difficulty in accessing statutory services when support was needed to meet an individual child's needs. They also reported a lack of information about who to contact and when.
In Worcestershire there are five area special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) to cover the whole of the county. Forty per cent of pre-schools studied found it difficult to access support from an area SENCO, while 30 per cent found it hard to access support from a speech and language therapist.
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