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Understand how schools are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities.

Click on the icon to the right to view this video, which was produced by Teachers TV. The 14-minute video is about the work of a school Special Educational Needs Coordinator, or SENCO, at a school in Wigan. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?

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To read about how the system that supports children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) works, click to read ‘Special educational needs and disabilities: a guide for parents and carers’ by the Department for Education.
Click to read ‘The designated teacher for lookedafter and previously looked-after children: Statutory guidance on their roles and responsibilities’ by the Department for Education.
Click on the link to read ‘The constitution of governing bodies of maintained schools: Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and local authorities in England’ from the Departments of Education.