Special educational needs

Guidance and services

• The role of the special educational needs coordinator (SENCo)
  Guidance to clarify the roles of SENCos and encourage the sharing of good practice.
• Guidance for school information management systems
  It helps mainstream and special schools and local authorities to collect and record accurate and consistent information.
• Assistive technology: guidance for teaching practitioners to support learners with specific learning difficulties
  An overview of available technology and how it can help learners.
• Guidance for supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged learners
  This guidance provides advice and sets expectations relating to support for vulnerable and disadvantaged learners for a range of scenarios.
• Special educational needs: guidance for carers and parents
  Includes advice on understanding, what to do if you are worried and how you can help.
• Special educational needs: code of practice
  The role of education providers in identifying and improving the experience of children with special needs.
• Securing post-16 education for young people with learning difficulties: guidance for Careers Wales
  Guidance on the assessment process and providing placements.
• Educational psychologist: guidance
  Guidance on the role of educational psychologists and the services they can provide.
• Securing post-16 education for young people with learning difficulties at specialist further education establishments: appeal form
  Use this form to appeal a decision on a funding application or other request.
• Specific learning difficulties: screening, assessment and intervention
  Guidance to help identify and support learners with specific learning difficulties.
• Securing post-16 education for young people with learning difficulties: guidance for specialist further education (FE) establishments
  Guidance for specialist FE establishments on the assessment process and providing placements.
• Specific learning difficulties framework
  Guidance to help schools understand the difficulties of learners so that they can make suitable changes.
• Securing post-16 education for young people with learning difficulties at specialist further education establishments
  Guidance for all on the assessment process, funding and reporting requirements.
• Children’s rights to appeal and make a claim to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales: guidance for local authorities
  Guidance to ensure children are made aware of their rights.
• Developing as a person-centred organisation
  Guidance for schools, colleges and nurseries on how to become more person-centred.
• Person-centred practice in education
  How person-centred thinking tools can help schools, colleges and nurseries support learners.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Review of funded placements for post-16 learners with learning difficulties
  Report
  Recommendations to improve the management of placements at specialist further education establishments.
• Current speech, language and communication educational support
  Report
  Presentation on our study to identify speech, language and communication support for learners aged 0 to 25.
• Children’s rights to appeal and make a claim to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales
  An assessment of how our policy affects children's rights.
• The transition to further and higher learning for young people with special educational needs: final report
  Report
  A review of the current process and how it could be improved.