These pages have been produced following requests from parents and carers for a guide to additional educational needs services and provision in Oldham. It has been produced with parents through the Parent Forum and aims to provide clear accessible information to parents and carers on matters relating to additional educational needs.
Children have additional educational needs if they have a learning difficulty which calls for additional educational provision to be made for them. Up until recently the term SEN, Special Educational Needs, was synonymous with needs that were perceived to be a consequence of a range of learning difficulties and disabilities.
Additional Educational Needs is considered a more appropriate term to describe the range of educational needs that are a consequence of learning difficulty and or disability and require provision that is additional to and different from that routinely provided for the majority.
Children have a learning difficulty if they:
a) have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children the same age;
b) have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority;
c) are under compulsory school age and fall within the definition at (a) or (b) above, or would do so if additional educational provision was not made for them.
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