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Overview
What this guidance report covers
This guidance is designed to help you support pupils with SEND in mainstream schools.
Its five recommendations are drawn from the evidence base. They provide a starting point to review your current approach, alongside practical ideas you can implement.
Pupils with SEND have the greatest need for excellent teaching and are entitled to provision that supports achievement at, and enjoyment of, school. At the end of primary school, the attainment gap between pupils with identified SEND and their peers has been, on average, more than twice as wide as the gap between pupils eligible for FSM and their peers for several years. At the end of secondary school, the attainment gap between pupils with identified SEND and their peers has been, on average, approximately one and a half times as wide as the gap between pupils eligible for FSM and their peers for several years. Pupils with identified SEND are approximately twice as likely to be eligible for FSM as their peers without identified SEND.
This page – built on the foundations of our guidance – also signposts to our suite of additional resources to help you support your pupils with SEND.