Support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (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
Apply for school transport for a child with special educational needs and disabilities

If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport

Adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF)
- Detailed guide
- 15 December 2023
- Department for Education
SEND: guide for early years settings
- Guidance
- 5 September 2014
- Department for Education
SEND: guide for parents and carers
- Guidance
- 26 March 2015
- Department for Education
Providing supported accommodation for children and young people
- Guidance
- 23 March 2023
- Department for Education
Young person’s guide to the Children and Families Act 2014
- Guidance
- 30 September 2014
- Department for Education

Quarterly autism statistics for NI (October - December 2023)
- 31 January 2024
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Short breaks innovation fund: year 1 evaluation
- 30 November 2023
- Department for Education
- Research
Quarterly autism statistics for NI (July - September 2023)
- 1 November 2023
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Quarterly autism statistics for NI (April - June 2023)
- 2 August 2023
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
The Prevalence of Autism (including Aspergers Syndrome) in School Age Children in Northern Ireland 2023
- 18 May 2023
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics

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
The best start for life: a progress report on delivering the vision
- 4 April 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Children in need of help and protection: call for evidence
- 10 December 2018
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome