A statement will describe all your child’s special educational needs (SEN) and the special help your child should receive. The local authority (LA) will usually make a statement if they decide that all the special help your child needs cannot be provided from within the school’s resources. These resources could include money, staff time and special equipment. A statement of SEN is set out in six parts.
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Part 1 gives your own and your child’s name and address, and your child’s date of birth, home language and religion. It also lists all the advice the LA received as part of the assessment.
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Part 2 gives details of all of your child’s SEN as identified in the statutory assessment.
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Part 3 describes: all the special help that the LA think your child should get to meet the needs listed in part 2, what the long-term aims are, the arrangements for setting short-term goals, regularly reviewing your child's progress towards those goals, and how your child’s progress is to be monitored.
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Part 4 tells you about the school your child will go to to get the special help set out in part 3, or how any arrangements will be made out of school hours or off school premises.
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Part 5 describes any non-educational needs your child has, as agreed between the LA and the health services, social services or other agencies.
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Part 6 describes how your child will get help to meet the non-educational needs described in part 5. The LA must send, with the statement, copies of all the advice they got from you and from other people and organisations during the statutory assessment.
