Children and young people with SEND often find it harder to learn and make progress than their peers, or they face additional challenges that make school or college more difficult for them. This might be, for example, due to difficulties with learning or understanding, emotional needs, communication difficulties and/or physical and sensory needs.

A child/young person is described as having SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability and they need special educational provision to support them (this means support that is additional to, or different from, what is generally available for other children and young people of the same age). Overviews of different needs can be found here.

Further information regarding SEND and special educational provisions can be found on the Independent Provider of Special Education Advice (IPSEA) website by clicking here.

Bury Special Educational Needs and Disability Information Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) website also has lots of information for parents/carers about SEND and SEND support. Their website can be accessed by clicking here. Bury SENDIASS has also created a short SEN Information for Parents/Carers resource, which can be accessed here.

You can watch a short video that explains the role of SENDIASS here: