About special schools
A special school provides education and support to children and young people with an education, health and care (EHC) plan who have complex special educational needs and require their SEN provision to be delivered in a specialist setting.
If you have received a draft EHC plan, or are in the process of amending your EHC plan, you can request to place your child or young person into a special school.
Our maintained special schools
To meet the needs of children and young people with complex SEN, each school specialise in a particular area of SEN which broadly fall under these 4 areas:
- communication and interaction
- cognition and learning
- physical and/or sensory difficulties
- social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
The special school that a child or young person attends depends upon a range of factors including; age, special educational needs and the provision (support) described in their EHC plan and the school's location.