Go to Students Profile > Support > SEN.
You can access a student's SEN profile by visiting their profile and clicking on the support tab, you will see a section for special educational needs (SEN).
Click on the cog next to SEN to view or add SEN details.
(If no cog wheel appears you will need a member of the admin team to add SEN user role to your account)
Click Add New to enter the SEN information.
Additional Info:
Please Note:
When recording SEN details, you need to enter both an SEN Provision AND an SEN Need (also known as SEN Type).
Students can have just a Primary Need or they can have both a Primary and Secondary Need.
Clicking Edit will allow you to add or amend data relating to that specific provision.
You can add an SEN Needs at the bottom of this screen by clicking Add New SEN Need.
SEN History
You must enter an end date to a SEN provision for this to appear in the SEN history table on the right side of Support tab page.
NOTE
The Department for Education (DfE) requires that only one SEN Provision is open at any one time, and for there to be at least a Primary SEN Need associated with this provision. All SEN Provisions and SEN Need Types are determined by the DfE.
SEN Provision Types
The SEN provision types and the DfE code they equate to are:
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| N | No special educational need |
| E | Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) |
| K | SEN support |
Broad Areas of Need
There are also four Broad Areas of Need within the SEN Provision:
- Communication and interaction.
- Cognition and learning.
- Social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
- Sensory and/or physical needs.
SEN Need (or SEN Type)
The SEN Need types and the DfE codes they equate to are:
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| SPLD | Specific learning difficulty |
| MLD | Moderate learning difficulty |
| SLD | Severe learning difficulty |
| PMLD | Profound and multiple learning difficulty |
| SEMH | Social, emotional and mental health |
| SLCN | Speech, language and communication needs |
| HI | Hearing impairment |
| VI | Vision impairment |
| MSI | Multi-sensory impairment |
| PD | Physical disability |
| ASD | Autistic spectrum disorder |
| OTH | Other difficulty |
| NSA | SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need |
SEN Ranking
SEN Needs need to be given a ranking of either Primary or Secondary