Additional Educational Needs Service

What We Do

Provide advice, management, co-ordination of support and training relating to, cognition, communications, hearing impairment, physical disability and visual impairment.
Provide additional educational assessment and advice in accordance with the 1996 Education Act.
Manage and co-ordinate an annual AEN audit in order to target additional AEN resources to the most needy children in the Borough.
Support individual children and young people in all educational establishments and related placements and their parents/carers.
Support and advise headteachers, governors, SENCOs, class teachers, support assistants and all those working with individual children and young people who have AEN.
Work in partnership with schools, parents/carers and partner providers.

Greenbank
Firbank Road
Royton
Oldham
OL2 6TU

Telephone: 0161 770 3110
Fax: 0161 770 3114
Email: julie.sweeting@oldham.gov.uk

The office is staffed Monday to Friday from 8.40 a.m. to 4.30 pm

Individual members of the AENS may be available outside these hours.

Julie Sweeting
Telephone: 0161 770 3235
Fax: 0161 770 3114
email : julie.sweeting@oldham.gov.uk

Provide a responsive comprehensive advice and assessment service in accordance with the SEN Code of Practice 2001;
ensure additional resources for AEN are allocated equitably according to need;
ensure that all staff maintain expertise.

Letting us know it there are difficulties keeping appointments.
Providing details such as dates of birth, address and school when you contact us.
Sharing your concerns with us as early as possible.