Where a pupil is identified as having SEN, our academies should take action to remove barriers to learning and put an effective special educational provision in place. This SEN support takes the form of a four-part cycle through which earlier decisions and actions are revisited, refined and revised with a growing understanding of the pupil’s needs and of what supports the pupil in making good progress and securing good outcomes. This is known as the graduated approach. It draws on more detailed approaches, more frequent review and more specialist expertise in successive cycles in order to match interventions to the SEN of children and young people.
The principles designed to support this include:
- Child and family centred approaches
- Early identification
- Collaboration between education, health and social care
- High-quality provision
- Inclusive practice and removal of barriers
- High aspirations
