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Curriculum accessibility for pupils with SEND: checklist
To help pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reach their full potential, they first must have equal access to your curriculum. Use our checklist to stay compliant with the Equality Act and SEND regulations.
In a nutshell: your duties
The Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Regulations 2014 place certain duties on schools to make sure that pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are able to take advantage of the same opportunities that other pupils have.
In practice, this legislation means you need to:
- Set high expectations for all pupils (e.g. by setting ambitious targets)
- Remove barriers to allow pupils to achieve those expectations (e.g. through accessible resources, differentiation and reasonable adjustments)
You also need to publish how you're meeting these requirements on your website. Find out more about how you can do this in our article on publishing curriculum information.
Use our checklist to make sure you're compliant
Instead, use our checklist to help you look at evidence from audits you've already completed to identify whether you've already got the right measures
- Anti-racism: how to review and re-frame your curriculum
- Bloom's Taxonomy: summaries
- Classroom displays: effective practice
- Covering LGBT content in your curriculum
- Curriculum audit: gender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Curriculum maps: templates and examples
- Curriculum provision in PRUs and APs
- Developing spiritual, moral, social and cultural education
- English genres in the National Curriculum
- How to design a curriculum
- How to promote British values across your school
- How to review your curriculum
- Implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum
- PE teaching hours: guidance and examples
- Quality first teaching: guidance
- Relationships and sex education: how to audit your curriculum
- Requests to withdraw a pupil from RE
- School reopening and getting learning back on track: where to start
- Whole-school curriculum audit
- Withdrawing pupils from subjects
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