Information and Report

Welcome to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities section

Our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo) is

Mr Harvey 

He works with children, parents/carers, school staff and outside agencies to ensure that all our pupils special educational needs are met.

Should you have any concerns about special educational needs you can contact Mr Harvey through the school office on 0121 354 6270 or email enquiry@stjosutton.net.

Below is our Special Educational Needs Information Report below, to find out what our school can offer if your child has special educational needs.

St Joseph’s SEND Information Report
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What is SEND?

Definition of Special Educational Needs and Disability (Code of Practice: 0-25 April 2015) The Code of Practice (2015) states that a child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he / she:

has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or

has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions.