SEND Place Planning

Specialist Provision

Bradford offers a range of educational provision to meet the needs of Children and Young People with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

This includes provision in both Local Authority Maintained Schools and Academy schools including:

• Mainstream Schools 
• Special Schools
• Resourced Provision led by the school (RP-SL)
• Resourced Provision led by the Local Authority (RP-LA)
• Early Years Resourced Provision (EY-RP)

The planning of provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities within the District is guided by a number of principles including:  

• The Council will ensure that suitable provision is available for all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities aged 0-25 and will provide appropriate services to encourage, enable and assist relevant young adults aged 19-25 to engage and remain in education and training. A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.
   
• The Council will seek to make such provision for those up to the age of 19 through local mainstream nurseries and schools, if necessary with additional resources or equipment. For children whose needs cannot be met in this way, the Council will seek to make appropriate provision through its Special Schools, Resourced Provisions (RP's) or Early Years Resourced Provision (EY-RP) where this is possible. For young people aged 16-19 provision may be at a school or college and for young people aged 19-25 provision is likely to be college based.
   

• Bradford has experienced a significant increase in the number of children and young people with EHCP’s requiring specialist provision, to ensure they are able to have their complex needs fully met and receive the specialist support that is required for them to thrive.  It is projected that demand for specialist places will continue to grow across all sectors.

Strategic Plan 2025 -  Sufficiency of Specialist Places for Children and Young People in Bradford click here for the full report Strategic Plan 2025

The Strategic Plan 2025 contains a full list of specialist provisions in appendix 1 (pages 22-24)

This report sets out the analysis process that we undertake to enable the Local Authority to plan and ensure the sufficiency of specialist places across the district and provides an overview of the following information:

• The current specialist provision available.
• The number of children and young people with an EHCP.
• The most prevalent primary needs of the children and young people with an EHCP.
• The projected growth of children and young people with an EHCP based on local and national data.
• Whether or not there are sufficient specialist places for particular primary needs within each constituency, to meet current and projected demands.
• The type of provision that is projected to be required for example Resourced Provisions, Special Schools or Early Years Resourced Provision.

This report highlights the projected scale of growth and the number of specialist places required to meet projected increase in demand. In order to assess and ensure that there are sufficient specialist places for statutory school aged children, this report primarily looks at school aged children and young people with an EHCP.

Previous Strategic Plans

Strategic Plan 2023

Strategic Plan 2022

Strategic Plan 2021