Special educational needs
Special education provision
Parents who believe their child may have special educational
needs should seek advice and guidance from their child’s teacher or
headteacher. It may be necessary to assess a child’s needs to
determine whether additional special help should be made available.
Parents are involved at all stages of this process. The majority of
children with special educational needs will have their needs met
by their school. The LA and schools are guided by the Government’s
Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special
Educational Needs. The Code and an accompanying guide for parents
may be obtained free of charge from the Department for Children,
Schools and Families, Publications Centre (Tel: 0845 602 2260).
For a small number of children a specialist facility is required to meet the child’s needs. Ealing has a range of schools and units which cater for children with severe and moderate learning difficulties, severe speech and language difficulties, complex social communication difficulties including autistic spectrum disorder, hearing difficulties and physical disabilities. Ealing’s Special Educational Needs Policy has adopted the principle of local high quality provision with the intention that more distant provision will only be used in exceptional circumstances.
Statement of special educational needs
Children with Statements of Special Educational Needs that
name a school in the statement are required to be admitted to the
school that is named. If your child has a Statement of Special
Educational Needs the Special Education Section of the LA will
provide you with information about schools within the borough and,
on request, they will provide a list of independent schools
approved by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and
Families, mainstream schools and special schools in other local
authorities. If you wish to apply to a Voluntary-Aided school, you
should also complete the school’s additional information form,
which is required to assess denominational commitment.
Children with Statements of Special Educational Needs that name a school in the statement are required to be admitted to the school that is named. If your child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs the Special Education Section of the LA will provide you with information about schools within the borough and, on request, they will provide a list of independent schools approved by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, mainstream schools and special schools in other local authorities. If you wish to apply to a Voluntary-Aided school, you should also complete the school’s additional information form, which is required to assess denominational commitment.
Primary support bases are attached to mainstream schools. They cater for small groups of young children in either reception year, year 1 or year 2 who have a range of learning and/or behavioural difficulties. Specialist resources are used by teachers who carry out on-going assessment of pupils.
The following primary schools have a primary support base:
What other specialist bases are there?
The hearing impaired base caters for nursery and
primary aged children with hearing difficulties and is based at
Gifford Primary School.
The speech and language base caters for primary aged pupils with speech and language difficulties and is based at St John’s Primary School.
The severe learning difficulties base caters for primary aged pupils with severe learning difficulties and is based at Allenby Primary School.
This information forms part of Ealing's 2009 admission policy.