Support for special educational needs and disability (SEND)

Services

Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - support your child can get at school and how to apply for an education, health and care (EHC) plan

SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
- Statutory guidance
- 12 September 2024
- Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
Mental health and behaviour in schools
- Guidance
- 12 November 2018
- Department for Education
Providing supported internships for young people with an EHC plan
- Guidance
- 21 October 2025
- Department for Education
SEND: guide for parents and carers
- Guidance
- 26 March 2015
- Department for Education
SEND: guide for schools and alternative provision settings
- Guidance
- 1 September 2014
- Department for Education

Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision
- 31 August 2025
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 July 2024
SEND review: right support, right place, right time
- 2 March 2023
- Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 22 July 2022
Children and young people’s consultation: Changing the way we look into services for children and young people with SEND
- 29 November 2022
- Ofsted and Care Quality Commission
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 September 2022
A new approach to area SEND inspections
- 29 November 2022
- Ofsted and Care Quality Commission
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 September 2022
Residential special schools and colleges: a call for evidence
- 6 November 2017
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

Home to school transport: local authority data collection
- 28 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and CQC
- 28 May 2019
- Ofsted
- Corporate report
Statements of SEN transferring to EHC plans: 31 March 2018
- 10 May 2018
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Statements of SEN transferring to EHC plans: 1 March 2018
- 29 March 2018
- Department for Education
- Transparency
SENDD: information and accountability
- 13 September 2011
- Department for Education
- Foi release