Special Educational Needs (SEN)
The term ‘special educational needs’ has a legal definition.
Children with SEN all have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age.
These children may need extra or different help from that given to other children of the same age.
The law says that children do not have learning difficulties just because their first language is not English.
Some of these children may have learning difficulties as well.
Children with SEN may need extra help because of a range of needs, such as:
- in thinking and understanding, physical or sensory difficulties
- emotional and behavioural difficulties
- difficulties with speech and language
- how they relate to and behave with other people.
Many children will have SEN of some kind at some time during their education.
Schools and other organisations can help most children overcome the barriers their difficulties present quickly and easily.
But a few children will need extra help for some or all of their time in school.
Basic principles for the education of children with special educational needs.
- All children with SEN should have their needs met.
- The SEN of children are normally met in mainstream early education settings or schools.
- Your views should be taken into account and the wishes of your child should be listened to.
- You have a vital role in supporting your child’s education.
- Children with SEN should get a broad, well-balanced and relevant education, including the foundation stage curriculum (for children aged three to five) or the national curriculum (for children aged 5 to 16).
How are SEN met?
The SEN code of practice gives guidance to
- early education settings
- state schools
- local authorities
- anybody else that helps to identify, assess and provide help for children with SEN.
It sets out the processes and procedures that all these organisations must or should follow to meet the needs of children.
They must not ignore the guidance in the code.
They must also take account of the Code when they write their SEN policies.
The SEN code of practice is below in the attached files section.
- Please note this file is over 3MB in size and may take some time to download.
The code describes how help for children with SEN in schools and early education settings should be made by a step-by-step or ‘graduated approach’.
|TopFurther Information
Special Educational Needs (SEN)
48 Station Road
Wood Green
London N22 7TY.
Tel 020 8489 3848
Fax 020 8489 3850
Email sen@haringey.gov.uk.
Useful Contacts
| Central SEN Services Tel: 020 8489 1913 | Educational Psychology Service 020 8489 3004 |
| Primary Behaviour Support Team 020 8489 5021 behavioursupport.primary@haringey.gov.uk | Secondary Behaviour Support Team 020 8489 5036 behavioursupport.secondary@haringey.gov.uk |
| Autism Advisory Team 020 8489 5084 autism@haringey.gov.uk | Speech Language and Communication Service 020 8489 5090 language.support@haringey.gov.uk |
| The Hearing Impairment Team 020 8442 2754 hiteam@btconnect.com |
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
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special educational needs policy.pdf  | 58K | |
| sen code of practice.pdf | 3320K | |
| policy for educational inclusion.pdf | 130K | |
| speech language communication service.pdf | 46K | |
| sen ethnic support groups.pdf | 23K | |
| parental request for assessment form.pdf | 33K | |
| PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat reader. Please click here to download. | ||
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Update MePage Last Updated: 23 June 2008
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- Education and learning > Schools and colleges > Special educational needs
- Education and learning > Schools and colleges > Special schools
- Education and learning > Education welfare services
