SEND Support Service
The SEND Support Service offers advice and support to children, young people, families, carers and a range of educational establishments for children with special educational needs and/or autism, aged 0 to 19 years.
SEND Support Service | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)
SEND IASS West Northants
We support children and young with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and the parents and carers in West Northants.
We provide free, impartial and confidential information, advice and support for SEND children and young people aged 0 -25 years.
West Northants SEND IASS | (iassnorthants.co.uk)
Contact for families with disabled children
Mainstream schools provide extra help for pupils with special educational needs (SEN) through a system called SEN support.
The SEND Code of Practice (section 6.27) suggests four broad areas of need that schools should plan for:
• Communication and interaction.
• Social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Cognition and learning.
• Sensory and/or physical needs.
Extra support in school | Contact
Barnardo’s
Your child’s individual needs might have mean that they face some unique challenges - particularly around settling into school. We know and recognise that the process of children returning to school or starting a new school is just that - a process of transition over a period of time, instead of a one off event we tick off the calendar, and requires that families are supported through that journey. This journey for some may take days, for others weeks or months - totally normal given how much change there has been to our everyday lives.
Supporting special needs children settle into school | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)
Gov.uk
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn. They can affect their:
• behaviour or ability to socialise, for example they struggle to make friends
• reading and writing, for example because they have dyslexia
• ability to understand things
• concentration levels, for example because they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• physical ability
Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
IPSEA
All children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have a legal right to an education that meets their individual needs. But many tens of thousands of children and young people with SEND are not getting the support they are legally entitled to.
At IPSEA, we are here to change that.
We are the leading charity in the field of SEND law in England, and we provide free and independent legal advice and support to families of children and young people with SEND. We also provide training on the SEND legal framework, and we influence policy at both a local and national level.
IPSEA: what we do