What is SEND?
The definition of SEND
SEND is short for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
A child or young person has special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty or disability and they need educational support that is additional to or different from that made generally for other children or young people of the same age.
A child or young person has a learning difficulty or disability if
- they have significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
- they have a disability which makes it difficult for them to use the facilities normally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or post-16 institutions.
Someone has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out day-to-day activities