Inclusion Provision

A child has special educational needs if he or she has a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

Students have a learning difficulty if they:

• Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of students of the same age
• Have a disability which prevents or hinders the child from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for pupils of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority
• Are under compulsory school age and fall within the definition at (a) or (b) above or would do so if special educational provision was not made for them

Students must not be regarded as having a difficulty solely because the language or form of language of their home is different from the language in which they will be taught.

Special educational provision means:

a) for students of two or over, educational provision which is additional to, or otherwise different from, the educational provision made generally for students their age in schools maintained by the LEA, other than special schools, in the area

b) for students under two, educational provision of any kind