This describes how arrangements for children with special educational needs are made in Nottinghamshire. This includes:

  • Providing funding for schools so that they could meet the needs of children with SEN
  • Providing a system for all schools to ask for extra resources for pupils with more complex difficulties
  • Providing access to support services who work with schools, children and families
  • Providing specialist training courses for teachers and teaching assistants to develop understanding, skills and expertise
  • Working closely with Parent Partnership Services

The Local Authority is currently conducting a review of the arrangements that it makes for special educational needs provision. This will update our policy in light of the government strategies set out in Removing Barriers to Achievement, Every Child and Parent Matters and the Children’s Plan. As part of this process there is on-going consultation with a wide range of people including parents and carers, children and young people, head teachers, school governing bodies and other agencies working with families.

We have set up a Parent and Carers Forum to look at the strategy, for more information please go to www.ppsnotts.org.uk.

Following the completion of the review in Autumn 2008, we will be producing an updated SEN and Inclusion Strategy for Nottinghamshire. This will include priorities for improvement, which have been shared with the different groups of people we have consulted. A copy of the existing strategy is still available.

We have also produced a factsheet which explains Nottinghamshire County Council's policy and provision for children and young people with special educational needs [PDF 65KB] pdf logo

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