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Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Children with special educational needs (SEN) can get the help they need to get an education - SEN support, education, health and care plans, SEN before September 2014
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or…
Your child will get SEN support at their school or college. Your child may…
An education, health and care (EHC) plan is for children and young people…
Your child will move to an education, health and care (EHC) plan. This…
Arrange a special collection for large waste items - most councils will collect things like old sofas, fridges or washing machines for a fee
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Find out how to apply to become a child's special guardian.
Statistics on pupils with SEN, including information on educational attainment, destinations, absence, exclusions, and characteristics.
We’re responsible for handling appeals against local authority decisions regarding special educational needs, including a refusal to: assess a child or young person’s educational, health and care (EHC) needs reassess their EHC needs issue an EHC plan change what’s in...
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) and special constables - roles, powers and how they differ
If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport
Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Explains control of advertisement regime.
What to do if you disagree with a decision about an EHC plan: how to appeal, the hearing, what happens if you lose your case
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
List of local authorities who applied to open a special free school in the 2022 special free schools wave, and those who were successful.
How to get state healthcare if you live, work or study in Spain.
How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
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