Management Information Sheet

Publishing your school SEN information report - Update

MI Sheet TypeAction
To Be Completed By: 31/10/2018
MI Number:87/18
Publication Date:01/06/2018 12:00:00
LA Contact:Claire Jones (01603 224331)
Audience:Governing bodies of maintained schools, nursery schools and the proprietors of academy schools and SENCos

Publishing your school SEN information report - Update

The SEN information report should be published on your website, updated annually and any changes to the information occurring during the year should be updated as soon as possible.

Please see Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, Regulation 51, and for the prescribed detail refer to Schedule 1. Also see the Schools and their Local Offer requirements on the Norfolk County Council website.

You might find it helpful to use the SEN information report audit tool to help you to review your report.

Following on from MI Sheet 67/18, we have just completed a review of all Norfolk school websites to check that we could find a SEN information report and the last date of publication. Although many have clearly been refreshed in the 2017/18 academic year, there are many that have not or that have no date.

We will be repeating this exercise in the second part of the autumn term 2018 in order to start formally reporting on this internally.

Action required

  1. Check your SEN information report is on your website.
  2. Check the date when it was last reviewed.
  3. Schedule when you will review your SEN information report.
  4. Update your SEN information report, ensuring that it includes a date of publication and forward review date.
  5. Upload refreshed SEN information report to your website.
  6. Send the link to send@norfolk.gov.uk.

Remember: the SEN information report should explain how you implement your SEN policy and be reviewed and updated annually. It should at the very least have a date of publication and ideally a date of when it will next be reviewed too.