Schools
How can schools support for children and young people?
SEN Support
Schools must do their best to find out if your child has special educational needs and give them the support, they need to help them learn.
Your Say
You can have your say about what support your child gets at school. You might be asked to go to a meeting with your child’s teacher to talk about this.
SENCO
If your child is at school, the people in charge of making sure they are getting the support they need are their teachers and a special educational needs coordinator (SENCO).
Mainstream Settings
Your child’s educational entitlement
In Barking and Dagenham, the majority of children who have SEN or are disabled, go to their local mainstream school. We are determined to offer the best possible education opportunities for all children, no matter what special educational needs they have. Children and young people with SEN or who are disabled and are resident or attend an education setting in Barking and Dagenham can access the full range of provision.
Our Schools
LBBD School Admissions Team
All children with SEND have the right to a mainstream education. The SEND Code of Practice 2015 requires all schools and settings to take a graduated approach in supporting pupils with SEND and take account of parents’ views.
If your child is receiving SEN Support or has a SEN Support Plan, you can submit your school application to e-admission for school places (ages 4 to 16). You can identify up to 6 schools and rank each in your order of preference. The School Admissions Team will process your applications.
If your child have an EHC Plan, your school place (mainstream (including additional resource classes) or special school) is allocated by the EHC Team following assessment and review of your child’s needs.
Mainstream Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP)
As part of the Barking and Dagenham SEND Local Offer, arrangements have been made for Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) in some of our mainstream schools. An ARP is provision, within a mainstream school, designed to provide specialist and targeted support for children with long term special educational needs. ARPs are additionally funded, which means that a school ARP receives additional resources.
They can offer:
- teaching staff with additional knowledge, skills and expertise in a particular area of SEN;
- specialist environments which support the learning needs of each pupil;
- systems to track small-step progress;
- lessons in mainstream classes, but with additional specialist resources and teaching;
- additional educational psychologist and specialist health input as necessary.
- Each ARP specialises in a particular area of special educational needs. Each ARP is an integral part of the school.
Primary Schools
Autism or Complex Social Communication:
- George Carey Primary School
- Manor Primary School
- Monteagle Primary School
- John Perry Primary School
- Becontree Primary School
- Rose Lane Primary School
- Eastbrook Primary School
- Grafton Primary School
- Valence Primary School
Social, Emotional and/or Mental Health:
- William Bellamy Primary School
Complex Learning Needs:
- Dorothy Barley Junior School
- Richard Alibon Primary School
- Ripple Primary School
- St Peter’s RC Primary School
Deaf and Hearing Impairment:
- Five Elms Primary School
- Eastbury Primary School
Speech, Language and Communication:
- Hunters Hall Primary School
Thomas Arnold Primary School
Secondary Schools
Autism or Complex Social Communication:
- Barking Abbey School
- Eastbrook Comprehensive School
- Jo Richardson Community School
- Sydney Russell Secondary School
Complex Learning Needs:
- Barking Abbey School
- Warren Comprehensive School
Moderate Learning Difficulties:
- Dagenham Park Church of England School
Deaf and Hearing Impairment:
- Eastbury Comprehensive School
Speech, Language and Communication:
- Eastbrook Comprehensive School
Special Schools
If your child has not yet started school, your educational psychologist or other professional working with your child will make a recommendation to the Education, Health and Care (EHC) panel, who will consider the request.
If your child is already at school, and has an EHC plan, you need to discuss this with your child’s school. This could be through the statutory review of the EHC plan. If your child is undergoing assessment for an EHC plan, you will be able to discuss with your key worker and professionals working with your child.
As part of the Barking and Dagenham SEND Local Offer, arrangements have been made for specialist provision to meet the needs of our most complex children and young people.
Trinity Special School
Children and young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, and severe learning difficulties in Barking and Dagenham can attend Trinity Special School.
Riverside Bridge
Riverside Bridge is an inclusive school where every child is valued and supported to achieve as full and independent life as possible.
Pathways School
Pathways School is a school for young people who have social, emotional and mental health needs. Young people are placed at this school by the local authority.
Other local authority special schools
For some children and young people, attendance at a special school in another local authority area is necessary because they will be able to have support from the specialist staff and facilities they need.
Independent special schools and colleges
Alternative Provision
Alternative provision is where young people participate in education away from school (because of illness, exclusion or other reasons).
There are opportunities for young people to have an alternative good quality education allowing them to take the right qualifications, preventing them slipping behind, and supporting them to reintegrate successfully into school as soon as possible, where possible.
Find out more about the alternative provision for the young people of Barking and Dagenham at Mayesbrook Park School.