SEND Policy, Local Offer and Information Reports
SENDCo – Mrs Ellen Simpson
Autism Centre of Expertise (ACE) Lead – Laura Oxley
What is Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)?
A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:
- has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
- has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age.
SEND at Nene Park Academy
At Nene Park we make every effort to ensure that reasonable adjustment is made for our SEND students so that they can access both curricular and extracurricular provision alongside their mainstream peers. Within Nene Park we have two groups of SEND Students:
– SEND students who have specific needs but can access mainstream lessons with support and differentiation. These students have a variety of needs, these range from Education Health and Care Plans to temporary support for long term or short intervention needs. Ranging from communication and interaction, cognition and learning, sensory and physical, Social Emotional and Mental Health.
– The academy has a service level agreement with the Local Authority for providing an Autism Centre of Expertise (ACE).
Part of the academies expertise is a bespoke provision for a small number of students that is accessed via application to the Statutory Assessment and Monitoring team within the Local Authority . To gain a place within this bespoke provision students;
- have an EHCP (Education Health Care Plan)
- have a clinical diagnosis of autism
- are in Key Stage 3 or 4
- require a programme of individualised support and coaching in order to engage fully with the curriculum, social expectations and environment of a mainstream secondary school .
ACE provision lead: Laura Oxley
Further Information:
Meridian Trust SEND Policy can be found here