School Age SEND Support
All local authority and academy schools are funded to provide a wide range of special educational needs support in school. Every school in Lambeth must have a SEND Information Report on their website explaining how they support the needs of children with SEND in their school. This is called their SEND Offer.
Every school must have a SENCO (a special needs co-ordinator), who manages the response to identifying, assessing and meeting the needs of children with special educational needs in schools, and checks that progress is being made with the class teacher.
Schools follow the Graduated Approach to special educational needs. That means they assess, plan, do and review a child regularly over time to check that the support is working, and that the gap between a child and their classmates is not getting bigger.
The Local Area has provided schools with Graduated Approach Tables to guide them in supporting children in school. This is called Ordinarily Available Provision.
In Lambeth, we have set up a School Inclusion Fund. All schools plan how they will use the SEN funding they have been given by the Government when deciding their SEND offer for an academic year. Sometimes, a child in school may have a need that is outside of the school’s planned-for SEND Offer. This fund is for schools to apply to for named children to get some extra funding for specific support they do not currently offer.
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