When a pupil is identified as having Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) schools must put effective provision in place. They must make sure that all barriers to learning are removed.
Most pupils with SEND in mainstream schools are provided for at something called SEND support. This is the support that schools provide for pupils who have an identified SEND need, but they do not meet the criteria for an Education, Health and Care Assessment.
Every local authority is required to set out what it expects educational settings to offer pupils with SEND at SEND Support. We call this our Graduated Response.
Our 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:
