Best Practice

Reviewing the SEN register

With the SEN reforms well underway, Jane Friswell looks at the on-going process of moving pupils into the new SEN Support category.

SEN professionals are now responding to the guidance issued on duties and timescales for local authorities and their partners to implement the special needs system and its implications for schools, with the anticipation that most children will be moved into the new SEN Support category by Spring 2015, and all pupils moving to SEN Support by September 2015.

Reviewing the SEN register is an on-going process but one which is particularly under the spotlight right now. Schools are working to decide how to move forward with their pupils who may be currently recorded as School Action or School Action Plus, trying to define how this translates to the new category of SEN Support. So what constitutes best practice for this decision-making?

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