The process to apply for a school place if your child has special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), what we expect from schools, medical needs policy in schools, SEND information report.
We provide a range of specialist advisory services that will support nurseries, schools, and colleges to meet a child’s or young person’s needs.
To be placed in a specialist setting, the child or young person will need an education, health and care (EHC) plan. The education, health and care needs assessment will determine if an EHC plan is required, along with the most suitable mainstream school, local SEN Unit or special school for them to attend.
These units provide additional specialist facilities on a mainstream school site for pupils with an EHC plan. They focus on specific needs like speech, language, communication, or autism.
In SEN units:
Miles Coverdale Primary School - Speech and Language Unit
Miles Coverdale Primary School resource base has 20 places to support primary school-aged pupils with speech-language and communication needs (SLCN) and an EHC plan.
These places are for pupils who:
School staff who work within the SLCN unit have specialist additional training, experience, and expertise in working with children with developmental language disorder (DLD).
Queen's Manor Primary School - The Pavilion
The setting has 20 places to support primary school aged pupils with an EHC plan. The school supports moderate learning disabilities (MLD).
Pupils will present with communication and learning needs associated with their global learning delay which impacts their learning and life in school.
These settings provide specialist education for children and young people with an EHC plan who have the most severe or complex special educational needs.
Special schools provide curriculum design, delivery and assessment by staff who are trained and experienced in supporting pupils with special needs.
The whole school environment adapts to remove barriers to learning including making changes to physical spaces, teaching methods, and support services.
Examples of these are:
Cambridge School provides a specialist learning environment for secondary school aged children with a broad range of special educational needs including:
Jack Tizard is an all-age (2 to 19) special school for pupils with severe learning disabilities (SLD) and profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).
Queensmill School is an all-age (3 to 25) special school for children and young people with complex autism.
In addition to the main school, Queensmill School hosts two satellite provisions: a primary and secondary provision at different sites for pupils with moderate autism.
In each case, these provisions are part of a mainstream school.
Queensmill School at Fulham Primary School
Fulham Primary Queensmill Unit (FPQU) is made up of 3 Queensmill autism specific classes and is based in Fulham Primary School.
Each class can hold 10 students and is located throughout the school, next to their corresponding mainstream class. A teacher and 4 teaching assistants, all trained in autism approaches and strategies by Queensmill and supervised by senior Queensmill staff, run each unit class.
Students are officially enrolled at Queensmill school but attend Fulham Primary mainstream school full-time.
Queensmill School at Fulham Cross Academy
Known as Q4, this is a specialist provision for secondary aged pupils with a diagnosis of autism.
Staff in the resource base are hired and trained by Queensmill School and are experts who help students with their learning and social skills.
Each student is part of a Queensmill resource-based class and a mainstream form group. This allows them to have personalised curriculums in the resource base and interact with mainstream peers in other lessons and or during different activities such as lunchtime and at break.
Students who attend Q4 are enrolled in both Queensmill School and Fulham Cross Academy mainstream secondary school.
For young people over 19 years old, Queensmill College offers support and provides an opportunity for young people to prepare for their adult life within their local community.
Woodlane High School is a special school for secondary aged pupils with a broad range of special educational needs linked to cognition and learning.