Extra help or support at school or college

Year 9

If you have a statement of special educational needs, a Connexions Personal Adviser will meet you to talk about your plans for the future. The adviser will help you to do an action plan about this. The adviser will also come to your transition meeting and help you explain your plans and needs.

You can download the document about transition planning which will help you to think about your future and what you like doing.

Year 10

Your Connexions Personal Adviser may attend your annual review meeting. If your plans have changed, the adviser will help you with your new ideas.

Year 11

Your Connexions Personal Adviser will arrange to see you and attend your annual review meeting. If you are going to leave school, your adviser will need to fill out a special form so that your new college or training organisation will know what help you might need. The college or training provider will make sure this help is in place when you start your new course.

Moving on from school

If you receive extra funding or support in school this should continue if you go into the sixth form. Your school, and the Children's Services Authority where you live, will be responsible for giving you this support.

If you need to know more, talk to the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) in school.

If you are going to college, you need to talk to the admissions tutor and the learning support tutor. If you are going to a new school, talk to the head of sixth form. Tell them about any support that you may need. Ask about this when you visit the college or school.

If you receive extra support in school, you should still get support when you go to college. Your personal adviser can help by doing an assessment of your support needs to give to the college.

Extra help available

• Help with personal care
• Teaching in small groups
• Special equipment
• A support teacher or worker to help with parts of your course or college life
• Help with writing and maths
• Help about how best to learn and study
• Help with travel arrangements

Colleges must produce a disability statement. This will describe the support they offer.

Specialist College

There are also some colleges which specialise in courses for learners with particular learning difficulties and disabilities.

The Learning & Skills Council (LSC) pays for a small number of learners to go to these colleges each year if local colleges cannot meet the learner's needs.

If you go to a specialist college, you might live at the college during term-time.

More information

SKILL is a national organisation for students with disabilities. They have some fact sheets which give more

Updated 060607