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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

• Overview

  Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or…

• Special educational needs support

  Your child will get SEN support at their school or college. Your child may…

• Extra help

  An education, health and care (EHC) plan is for children and young people…

• If your child got support before September 2014

  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.

• Updated: 26 June 2025

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...

• Updated: 15 April 2021

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal forms including the education, health and care (EHC) plan form to appeal against a decision.

• Updated: 1 November 2023

Innovators to test earlier interventions to help support children with SEND, backed by government.

• Updated: 20 November 2025

A guide for schools on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.

• Updated: 1 September 2014

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

• Updated: 27 March 2025

Analysis and links to data sources on children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) or a disability in England.

• Updated: 15 August 2024

Reports on the independent evaluation of the SEND pathfinders programme which tested reforms proposed in the SEND green paper.

• Updated: 27 January 2014