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Special Educational Needs

Kingston has four Special Educational Needs (SEN) Services which our support schools:

• Social Inclusion Service (SIS)                                     

• Educational Psychology Service (EPS)

• Support for Learning Service (SLS)              

• Special Educational Services (SES)                           

In addition the SEN Inspector ensures continual high standards and helps each school to develop policy and practice, while each school has a SEN Co-ordinator (SENCO) who ensures the effective management of services.

The Social Inclusion Service includes behaviour and learning support, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), school attendance and support for excluded pupils. Our staff support pupils across the whole range of Special Needs from behavioural, emotional and social needs to sensory impairment, specific learning difficulties and speech problems. They are available to work with schools on a day to day basis to give advice and additional specialist teaching, and to help schools and parents create Individual Education Plans. We also provide specialist support to pupils at risk of exclusion and, via our Education Welfare Service, promote regular attendance at school and access to the curriculum.  We also have two Pupil Referral Units for children with behavioural or emotional problems. Here, we help pupils with reintegration into schools or provide special provision when this is not feasible.

The Educational Psychology Service aims to define the nature of children's difficulties between the ages of 0 – 19, and provides focused support and advice in mainstream and special schools. To achieve these aims, our Educational Psychologists make regular visits to all schools and agree on a programme of activity. We also work directly and indirectly with pupils and contribute to their annual reviews.

The Pre-School SEN Support Service assesses and supports the needs of pre-school children with special educational needs – and ensures a co-ordinated approach to supporting them as they start school.

The Support for Learning Service works with schools to help develop Individual Education Plans for pupils with a SEN statement. We advise school SEN co-ordinators on strategies to support pupils.