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.
How
To Contact Us
By Post:
Greenbank
Firbank Road
Royton
Oldham
OL2 6TU
Telephone: 0161 770 3110
Fax: 0161 770 3114
Email:
julie.sweeting@oldham.gov.uk
Availability
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.
Service Manager
Julie Sweeting
Telephone: 0161 770 3235
Fax:
0161 770 3114
email : julie.sweeting@oldham.gov.uk
Service Standards
The Additional Educational Needs Service will:
- 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.
You
can help us by
- 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.