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SEN in schools: Who should do what?

Inclusion
New legislation, including the SEND Code of Practice 2015, has led to a dramatic overhaul of SEND practice in schools. Two years on, Garry Freeman looks at who should now be doing what to meet the new requirements

You may have all the right notes – but are you playing them in the right order?

We are all by now very familiar with the 2015 SEND Code of Practice, which was developed as part of the Children and Families Act of 2014. The Act established a set of principles that apply to SEND responsibilities, applying equally to maintained, academy and free schools.

One issue for many schools and local authorities remains the question of who should do what in terms of statutory responsibilities. A second issue has been what exactly is meant by the key words, contained in the Code, “must” and “should”.

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