You should receive reports at least annually
Your board needs to know how your school provides for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Ideally, your school's special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) should report to your board at least annually about:
- Your school's provision for pupils with SEND
- The progress pupils with SEND are making
The report will help you scrutinise and monitor this area effectively.
Report template
Remember, you're not expected to write this, as that's your SENCO's job. Instead, use our template to get an idea of what to expect from your SENCO's report.
Our associate expert Lorraine Petersen, who was previously the chair of nasen (a SEND charity), helped us create this template for our sister service, The Key.
Check our SEND glossary to make sense of the key terms you may come across in the report, so you understand phrases such as the 'annual review', 'graduated approach'