SEN support guide for professionals
Help for all practitioners and providers to identify how conditions can affect children and young people and how to access support with or without a diagnosis.
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3. SEN support
Every child with special educational needs should have 'SEN support'. This means help that is additional to or different from the support generally given to most of the other children of the same age. The purpose of SEN support is to help children and young people achieve the outcomes or learning objectives set for them by the school in conjunction with parents and pupils themselves.
Sometimes the parent carer may be the first to be aware that their child has some special educational needs. If they think their child may need SEN support, they should talk to their child’s teacher or to the Special Educational Needs Coordinator. If they are not happy about the support their child has, they can ask to talk to the Special Educational Needs Coordinator or Headteacher.