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SEND

Welcome to our Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND) page. We hope you will enjoy reading about the variety of ways in which our academy is able to support SEND pupils to reach their full potential.

Our SENCO is Mrs N Meakin and can be contacted via email office@stjohnskidsgrove.org.uk

Please visit our School Information Report to find out what our school has to offer:

https://apps2.staffordshire.gov.uk/SCC/SchoolDetails/sendetails.aspx?SchoolID=140146

Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1530/contents/made

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

These Regulations supplement the procedural framework assessing a child or young person with special educational needs, and the procedure for making, reviewing, amending and ceasing to maintain an EHC plan, set out in Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (“the Act”). They require local authorities to notify the child’s parent or the young person of decisions within certain timescales, as well as notifying them of any right to appeal such decision. (regulations 3 to 31).

www.legislation.gov.uk

Asthma Information

Asthma poster

Please see our SEND Report and SEND Policy below.

What is the SEND Local Offer?

Local authorities, schools and other services will set out a local offer of all services available to support children who are disabled or who have Special Educational Needs and their families. The local offer will enable families to understand what services they can access and what support they can expect from a range of local agencies, including from the local authority, health services, schools, leisure services and the voluntary sector. The offer will include provision from birth to 25, across education, health and social care.

What will it do?

The Local Offer will provide parents/carers with information about how to access services in their area, and what they can expect from those services. With regard to Education, it will let parents/ carers and young people know how school and colleges will support them, and what they can expect across the local settings. During the last year, the Local Offer Steering Group has developed questions for schools, and trailed them with a small number of settings.

There are 18 questions, devised in consultation with parents/carers and other agencies, which reflect their concerns and interests. These will be answered by agencies, schools and colleges to provide information to parents and carers to enable them to make decisions about how to best support their child’s needs.

 

 

Please see our Local Offer below:

SEND Websites

Below is a glossary of the most common SEN terms.

ADD Attention Deficit Disorder LAC Looked After Child
ADHD Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder LEA Local Education Authority
ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder LM Learning Mentor
CAF Common Assessment Framework MLD Moderate Learning Difficulty
CAMHS Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service MSI Multi-sensory impairment
COP Code of Practice OT Occupational Therapist
CP Child Protection PD Physical disability
DCD Developmental Co-ordination Disorder PMLD Profound and multiple learning difficulties
EAL English as an Additional Language SEN Special Educational Needs
EP Educational Psychologist SEND Special Educational Needs & Disability
FSM Free School Meals SENCo Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
FLO Family Liaison Officer SLCN Speech, Language, Communication Needs
HI Hearing Impairment SLD Severe learning difficulties
IEP Individual Education Plan SpLD Specific Learning Difficulty
    VI Visual Impairment
  1. Results of the parent questionnaire 2020-2021 pdf
  2. Results of the child questionnaire 2020-2021 pdf
  3. SEND Policy pdf
  4. Accessibility Plan pdf
  5. Asthma Policy pdf