Governing Body
The Academy Governors have specific responsibility to:
- Do their best to ensure that the necessary provision is made for any Student who has special educational needs
- Ensure that students' needs are made known to all who are likely to teach them
- Ensure that teachers in the school are aware of the importance of identifying, and providing for, those students who have special educational needs
- Consult the LEA and the governing bodies of other schools, when it seems to be necessary or desirable in the interests of co-ordinated special educational provision in the area as a whole
- Ensure that a student with special educational needs joins in the activities of the school together with pupils who do not have special educational needs, so far as is reasonably practical and compatible with the child receiving the special educational provision their learning needs call for and the efficient education of the pupils with whom they are educated and the efficient use of resources
- Ensure that parents/carers are notified of a decision by the school that SEN provision is being made for their child
In doing so Governors will have regard to the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and the Disability Rights Code of Practice for schools. Governors will report to parents/carers annually on the implementation of their SEN policy. This may reflect the success criteria noted on the last SEN policy.
