Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND)

Useful contacts, links and documents.

Doncaster's Local Offer Website is a good place to find a wealth of local information regarding SEND.

Doncaster Pupil Lifestyle Survey Results 2020

The Pupil Lifestyle Survey is conducted by Doncaster Council to provide valuable data on children and young people’s health-related behaviour, through an anonymous school-based questionnaire. Data from the survey has provided a set of Doncaster-wide figures at key points in children and young people’s development; KS2, 3 and 4. Cohort reports are made available from self-declared indicators through the survey. These reports are a summary of the survey data conducted for the academic year 2020 and focus solely on the demographic group SEN mainstream schools.

Doncaster PLS SEN Cohort Primary 2020

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Doncaster PLS SEN Cohort Secondary 2020

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Childnet STAR SEN Toolkit

Practical advice and teaching activities to help educators explore online safety with young people who have special educational needs in Key Stage 2 and 3.

Sexual Expression - RSE for SEND

An RSE resource for people with learning difficulties and disabilities. Updated from the Living Your Life collaborative project by Brook's experts in sexual health and education, the resource was relaunched as part of Sexual Health Week 2019 and contains teaching strategies and supporting resources for delivering RSE.

Sexual Expression-RSE for SEND: Download (8.91MB - PDF)

PSHE Association SEND Hub

A range of resources to support special and mainstream schools to plan PSHE education that meets the needs of pupils with special educational needs and disability (SEND).

Beyond Words

Beyond Words is a UK charity publishing picture stories for people with learning disabilities, supporters, family and professionals. The each Books Beyond Words narrative gives people the chance to work together and explore different types of situations including everyday opportunities and experiences, things that are about to happen, like going to hospital, life decisions, like having a relationship or agreeing to an operation, things that have already happened, like abuse or losing someone you love.

Oral health of 5 and 12 year old children attending special support schools in England: survey results

Public Health England has published the results of this first national survey, which took place in the academic year 2013 to 2014.

The results of the survey, broken down by region, shows:

wide variation in tooth decay prevalence and severity in both 5 and 12 year old children attending special support schools in England
children in special support schools have slightly lower levels of tooth decay than children in mainstream schools but are more likely to have their teeth extracted
children who experience decay also have more teeth affected and poorer oral hygiene.

Downloads & Resources

ASD support services: Download (72KB - DOCX)
SAID Send: Download (164KB - PDF)

Last updated: 07 August 2020 10:14:22