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Additional needs register: templates and advice
What should be included in an additional needs register? This article features a template additional needs register and relays advice from one of our associate education experts. We also look at the areas of need identified in the SEND code of practice and link to related articles from The Key.
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What to include
We spoke to one of our associate education experts, Lorraine Petersen, for guidance on what to include in an additional needs register.
She explained that an additional needs register is not a statutory requirement, and it is up to schools to decide how they record their pupils' needs.
Lorraine recommended developing an additional needs register rather than a specific special educational needs and disability (SEND) register. This broader register can include a section for pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and also those with other needs, with information for instance about:
- Medical needs
- Free school meal (FSM) eligibility
- English as an additional language (EAL)
- Behavioural issues
Pupils should only be added to an SEND register, or the SEND section of an additional needs register, if they require provision that is additional and different to that offered to all pupils in order to reach the expected standard, because they
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- Auditing SEND provision
- Deploying TAs effectively: pupils with EHC plans
- How to use assistive technology to support your pupils
- Identifying and addressing staff development needs around SEND
- Local offer: what you need to know
- National data on SEN
- Pupils with SEND: lesson planning audit Updated
- Removing a pupil from the SEND register
- Running high-quality SEN provision
- SENCO handover: template
- SENCO's year planner
- SEND Code of Practice: a summary
- SEND provision: requirements and best practice audit
- SEND register: template and advice
- SEN provision in the EYFS: requirements
- SEN provision mapping
- SEN provision: role of teaching staff
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