My full name is:
I like to be known as:
I was born on:
All about me and all about us guidance
What is the All about me & All about us document?
The all about me/us builds Section A of your child's/young person’s final Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) if one is required. This should be completed by the child/young person & parent/family. Direct quotes from children/young people themselves should be indicated by encasing them in speech marks. Early years settings or schools can help families complete these sections or Independent Supporters are available to help too. Schools may already have developed a person centred approach to reviews in which case other ways of recording the child/young person’s views such as a recent One Page Profile can be attached instead. The working well and not working well sections will also help develop the outcomes for the plan at your transfer review.

How do I fill it in?

Below we have put together some questions underneath each of the All About Me/ Us sections which you may want to consider when filling in the section.
What is important to me?
Things that are important to you and make your life fun and rewarding for example:
  • Favourite places to visit
  • Favourite football teams
  • Hobbies and interests
  • Favourite colour
  • Special people in your life
  • How you stay healthy
  • What is important to you in nursery/school/college
  • How you communicate

How to support me?
Tell us how it is best to support you for example:
  • Things that make life easier for you
  • How to keep you safe
  • How to help you to learn and communicate.
  • Any medicine you need to take on a regular basis and how you take this medication
  • Any particular equipment you use and why.
  • What support you may need to make decisions.eg interpreter, signer, supportive friend or adult

Things that are working well for me
Think about your life at the moment. Tell us what is going well and why;
  • At school
  • At home
  • In my leisure time
  • With my health
  • With my care

Things that are not working so well for me
Think about your life at the moment. Tell us what is not working well and why? How could things be improved?
  • At school
  • At home
  • In my leisure time
  • With my health
  • With my care

My Future; My aspirations
It is important to make plans for the future and things you would like to do. This could include:
  • Short term plans
  • Longer term plans
  • Further education aspirations
  • Employment ideas
  • Your current wishes for future independence
  • Other things you would like to be able to do

All about us
Our child’s story so far
  • Explaining our child’s story so far (e.g. premature birth, relevant medical history, other, etc.)
  • Explaining our family (e.g. who are our child’s parents/carers? For some people – who our child lives with or where if outside the family home?)
  • Who are the siblings in the family and the nature of their relationships with the child/young person?
  • Are there extended family members who support the family and in what way?
  • Explaining relevant issues about parent(s)/carer(s) work arrangements which impact on care for our child
  • Explaining relevant issues about friends/relationships for our child with others

What do you like and admire about your child?
What are their strengths, qualities and talents?
What is important to our family now?
Tell us what is important to your family.Those things that are important to make life fun and rewarding.This could include:
  • favourite places to visit,
  • activities you like to do as a family
  • any interests that you, your partner or other children have.
This section is also an opportunity to talk about what is important to you when you are working with people who support your child.Do you need to have appointment dates set for certain days or timesand
arethere certain topics that should not be discussed in front of some members of the family?
  • What matters to me/us now around my/our child’s health
  • What matters to me/us now for my/our child’s education and learning (for life and work)
  • What is important to me/us now about my/ours child’s friendships, relationships and being part of the community
  • What matters to me/us now to enable appropriate support (by myself/ourselves and others) for my/our child to be as independent as possible
  • What is important to keep my/our child safe now

Things that are working well for our family
Think about your family’s life at the moment in relation to your child. Tell us what is going well and why in education, with healthcare or with keeping safe.
You may want to consider things such as
  • Organising your day
  • Areas that work really well such as handovers at school or transport arrangements.
  • If your child attends respite care - why is this working well and what benefit are you getting from this?
  • Is there is a service that you are accessing that has had a particularly positive impact on your family life?

Things that are not working so well for our family
Think about your family’s life at the moment. Tell us what is not working well and why?In education, with healthcare or with keeping safe how could things be improved?
You may want to consider things such as:
  • specific difficulties e.g. transport arrangement that are not suitable, or a
group that is available but not easily accessed.
You may also like to consider more complex issues such as;
  • a family member that may need further support in coming to terms with your family’s circumstances / child’s diagnosis;
  • full time job / family responsibilities and managing your child’s needs
  • personal relationships and how your child’s care needs have / are impacting upon these.
  • the impact upon your / your family’s health and wellbeing
  • your ability to seek employment or do leisure activities.

The future; What our family want our child to achieve in the future
It is important to make plans for the future.To do this you need to think about the things that you / your family would like to be able to do.Some of these things will be small steps towards things that you may succeed in doing quite soon, some will be longer term plans, both are important. Your plans might change as you / your child gets older but that is ok.Please share your thoughts about the future and what you would like to be able to do and what sort of a life you / your family would like to have in this section?
  • My/our wishes, aspirations and goals for the future for my/our child
  • What I/we wish for around my/our child’s health in the future
  • What I/we wish for my/our child’s education and learning (for life and work) in future
  • What I/we wish for my/our child’s friendships, relationships and being part of the community in future
  • What I/we wish for to enable appropriate support (by myself/ourselves and others) for my/our child to be as independent as possible in future
  • What is important to keep my/our child safe in future

Preferences for secondary school
Please state where you would like your child to be educated on transfer to secondary education
Questions I want to ask
If you have questions you would like to ask during the Transfer review/assessment process you can note them down the end of the form below.

Personal Information

Full name
Date of birth
My contact address
My telephone number
My email address
Parent’s/Carer’s names
Family contact address (if different from above)
Family contact numbers (if different from above)
Family email address (if different from above)

People who support me /People who are important to me

Name: / Relationship/role/Organisation / Email: / Telephone:

Consent

Signed: / Print Name: / Date:
The child/young person agrees with what has been written
The family agree with what has been written

Please also complete the Health Needs form and return together

SECTION A - I
If a One Page Profile with similar content has recently been produced this can be attached instead.
All About me:
Think about things and people that are important to you and how others can support you.
What is important to me? / How to support me?
At or with: / Things that working well for me / Things that are not working so well for me
School
Home
Leisure
Health
Care
Friendships
Other
My aspirations for the future
SECTION A - II
All about us
Our child’s story so far
What do you like and admire aboutyour child?
What is important to our family now?
Things that are working well for our family / Things that are not working so well for our family
Our aspirations for the future; what our family want our child to achieve in the future.
Preferences for secondary school
Questions I want to ask