Jargon Buster
As parent carers we come across many abbreviations in paperwork or during discussions.
Our jargon buster is here to help you!
A
ADD: Attention deficit disorder
ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
ASD: Autism spectrum disorder
B
BNSSG: Bristol North Somerset South Gloucestershire
BSL: British Sign Language
BSP: Behaviour Support Plan
C
CA: Carers allowance
CAF: Common assessment framework
CAMHS: Child and adolescent mental health services
CCG: Clinical commissioning group
CETR: Care, Education and Treatment Review
CFA: Children and Families Act (2014)
CIN: Child in need
CLA: Child looked after (previously LAC)
CoP: Code of practice
CP: Child protection
CYP: Children and young people
D
DCT: Disabled children’s team
DDA: Disability discrimination act
DFE: Department For Education
DLA: Disability Living Allowance
DP: Direct Payments
DRR: Dynamic Risk Register
DSD: Dynamic support database
E
EHC: Education, Health & Care
EHCP: Education health care plan
EHE: Elective home education
EP: Educational psychologist
EWO: Education welfare officer
EYFS: Early years foundation stage
F
FAS: Fetal alcohol syndrome
FASD: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
FE: Further Education
FSM: Free school meals
G
GDD: Global development delay
GLD: Global learning delay
GMS: Gross Motor Skills
H
HE: Higher education
HI: Hearing impaired
HLTA: Higher level teaching assistant
HTST: Home to school transport
I
IASS: Information, Advice, and Support Service
ICS: Integrated Care Systems
IEP: Individual education plan
IPP: Individual Pupil Profile
IPSEA: Independent provider of special education advice
IRP: Independent review panel
L
LA: Local Authority
LAC: Looked After Child
LARM: Locality allocation and review meeting
LDD: Learning difficulties and disabilities
LO: Local offer
LSA: Learning support assistant
LSCB: Local safeguarding children board
M
MAISEY: Multi agency information and support in early years
MARAG: Multi agency referral action group
MLD: Moderate learning disabilities
MS: Multiple Sclerosis
MSI: Multi Sensory Impairment
N
NEET: Not in Education, Employment or Training
NNPCF: National Network of Parent Carer Forum's
NSPCWT: North Somerset Parent Carers Working Together (PCF - Parent Carer Forum)
O
OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
ODD: Oppositional defiant disorder
OFSTED: Office for Standards in Education
OT: Occupational therapist
P
PA: Passenger assistant (used on htst)
PA: Personal assistant
PALS: The Patient Advice and Liaison Service
PB: Personal Budget
PCF: Parent Carer Forum
PCP: Person Centred Planning
PD: Physical Disability
PDA: Pathological demand avoidance
PECS: Picture Exchange Communication System
PEP: Personal education plan (for looked after children)
PFA: Preparation for Adulthood
PLAC: Previously looked after children
PLP: Personal learning plan
PMLD: Profound and multiple learning difficulties
PP: Pupil premium
PRU: Pupil Referral Unit
PSP: Pastoral Support Plan
R
RAD: Reactive attachment disorder
S
SALT: Speech and language therapist
SDQ: Strengths and difficulties questionnaire
SEAL: Social and emotional aspects of learning
SEMH: Social, emotional and mental health
SEN: Special Educational Needs
SENCAS: Special education needs clubs and activities service (previously short breaks)
SEND: Special educational needs and disabilities
SENDCO: Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator
SENDIASS: Special educational needs and disability, information advice support services
SIOT: Sensory Integration Occupational Therapist
SLCN: Speech, language and communication needs
SLD: Severe learning difficulties
SLT: School leadership team
SM: Selective mutism (formally elective mutism)
SPDs: Sensory processing disorders
SpLD: Specific learning difficulty
START: Statutory assessment resources team
T
TA: Teaching assistant
TAC: Team around the child
TAF: Team around the family
TFF: Together for families
TUF: Top Up Funding
V
VI: Visually impaired
VLS: Vulnerable Learners Service
Y
YC: Young carers
YP: Young Person
YSS: Youth Support Service
