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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
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…
Statistics on pupils with SEN, including information on educational attainment, destinations, absence, exclusions, and characteristics.
You need approval by the Department for Education in Northern Ireland to cater for special education in a non-maintained school
The mandatory course for special educational needs co-ordinators to learn how to effectively perform the SENCO role.
How health and wellbeing boards can support children with special educational needs and disabilities to get joined up care from local services.
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...
An annual report which includes information by school sector and local authority.
How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
How children and young people's special educational needs (SEN) are met in mainstream schools.
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal forms including the education, health and care (EHC) plan form to appeal against a decision.
If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport
Use this form to appeal a local authority’s decision not to secure an EHC needs assessment of a child or young person. This form can be used by parents or those with parental responsibility, or by a young person aged...
Types of school and how they're run - community schools, academies, free schools, faith schools, state boarding schools.
Information from the school census on pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and SEN provision in schools.
School leaders' and teachers' approaches to identifying and meeting the needs of pupils receiving SEN support, and how they evaluate the support provided.
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
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