Hounslow Local Offer

Whilst there is specialist provision within Hounslow for children and young people with SEND sometimes their needs may be better met by specialist provision out of borough.

These schools maybe provided by another Local Authority or be independent.

Applications to maintained special schools outside of Hounslow will require the SEN team to make an application directly to the Local Authority who maintains the school as well as to the school itself.

An EHCP is always required for attendance at a maintained special school except for a small number of short term ‘assessment’ placements that some schools allow as a way to carry out an expert assessment of a child whilst the right placement is being considered and an EHCP drawn up.

For more information contact the SEN team.

Telephone: 020 8583 2672

Email:sen@hounslow.gov.uk

These Special schools are all in local boroughs near Hounslow and have been used for children where their needs require special support that cannot be met within Hounslow:

School - specialism - age

Clarendon School - Moderate Learning & emotional - 4-16 years

Bedelsford School - Profound learning & disability - 2-19 years

Cambridge School - Complex needs including SLCN and SEMHS - 11-16 years

John Chilton School - Moderate-severe learning and medical need - 3-17 years

Philip Southcote School - Range of learning needs - 11-19 years

Strathmore School - Complex learning needs, ASD & medical/sensory - KS 2-3 years

Linden Lodge School - Visual Impairment & Complex learning needs and disabilities - 2-19 years

St Philip's School - ASD and learning needs - 11-19 years

Belvue School - Moderate to severe learning needs - 11-19 years

Woodlane High School - Complex learning needs including Autism, SLCN and emotional and medical needs - 11-19 years

Hedgewood School - Autism - 4-11 years

Heathlands School - Hearing Impairment - 3-19 years

Moorcroft School - Severe learning difficulties, Physical and multiple disabilities and Autism - 11-19 years

Oak Lodge School - Complex learning needs - 11-19 years

Castlebar School - Complex moderate to severe learning needs - 5-11 years

Wey House School Boys - Social and Emotional Mental health needs - 7-11 years

Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children - Hearing impaired - 2-11 years

The Willows School - Social, Emotional and mental health needs - 5-13 years

Parkwood Hall - Complex needs including moderate to severe learning needs, communication needs and social and emotional needs - 7-19 years

Walton Leigh School - severe/profound and complex learning needs - 11-19 years

Cricket Green School - Complex learning and multiple needs and Autism - 4-19 years

Mandeville School - Profound and multiple needs and severe learning difficulties. Often physical and medical needs - 2-12 years

Greenmead School - Severe physical and medical needs - 2-11 years

Dysart School - Severe and complex needs - 4-19 years

The Young People's Academy - Social, Emotional and mental health needs - 11-16 years

Moorcroft School - Severe learning difficulties, Profound and multiple learning needs and Autism - 11-19 years

Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014 allows the Secretary of State by order to publish a list of approved independent educational institutions, independent special schools and post-16 institutions for the purposes of enabling the institution to be the subject of a request for it to be named in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Institutions can only be included on the list with their consent.

The list can be found here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-special-schools-and-colleges

If the parents of a child or young person show a preference for an independent special school then the Local Authority have a duty to name it in their EHCP, unless the Local Authority can show that the school would not meet the child or young person’s special educational needs or that it would be incompatible with the efficient education of others or the efficient use of resources (as outlined in the Children and Families Act 2014)

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