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Where a pupil is identified as having a Special Educational Need, schools should take action to remove barriers to learning and put effective special educational provision in place.

This SEN Support should take the form of a four-part cycle through which earlier decisions and actions are revisited, refined and revised with a growing understanding of the pupil’s needs and of what supports the pupil in making good progress and securing good outcomes. This is known as the Graduated Approach. It draws on more detailed approaches, more frequent review and more specialist expertise in successive cycles in order to match interventions to the SEN of children and young people.

The services and links within this section will all provide information and advice in respect of the Graduated Approach, and the process of SEN Support.’

SEND Support for Schools