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SEND

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

    Click below to view the Stoke-on-Trent Local Offer and our school responses. 

    Stoke-on-Trent Local Offer

 

St Mary’s Catholic Academy

School Information Special Educational Needs Report

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