When a pupil is identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) schools must put effective provision in place. They must ensure that all barriers to learning are removed.
Most pupils with SEND in mainstream schools are provided for at SEND support. This is the support that schools provide for pupils who have identified SEND. But they do not meet the criteria for an Education, Health and Care Assessment.
The law requires the Local Authority to set out what it expects educational settings to offer pupils with SEND at SEND Support. This is called the Graduated Response.
The Graduated Response ensures that early years settings, schools and colleges:
- Take immediate action when a pupil is identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
- Informs the pupil's family as soon as the pupil's SEND is identified.
- Works in partnership with the pupil, their parents and carers, including them in decision making.
- Removes all barriers to learning by putting effective support for the pupil in place.
- Reviews the support put in place for children and young people with SEND at least termly.
- Involves the child or young person, their parents and carers in reviews.
- Gains advice from specialist professionals if necessary.
- Uses Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycles to inform changes to a child or young person's SEND support.
The guidance documents below set out the minimum standards for pupils with SEND across Cornwall.
- Supporting Early Years Special Needs Inclusion - The Graduated Response in Early Years Foundation Stage
- Supporting children and young people with Special Educational Needs - The Graduated Response in mainstream schools
- Supporting Young People with Special Educational Needs The Graduated Response in mainstream post-16 settings
- A Guide to the Graduated Response to Special Educational Needs for Young People and their Families
