Education and SEND support

In Waltham Forest, there are different types of schools for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

These include mainstream schools with their own and additional support through EHC plans, mainstream schools with resourced provision and special schools.

In Waltham Forest we have 4 special schools.

• Belmont Park - E10 6DB
  Ofsted inspection: good
  Social emotional and mental health
• Lime Academy Hornbeam: Brookfield House campus - IG8 6PY
  Ofsted inspection: good
  Physical disability, hearing impaired, medical, autism spectrum conditions
• Lime Academy Hornbeam: William Morris - E17 5NY 
  Ofsted inspection: good
  Profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, speech language communication difficulties,  autism spectrum conditions
• Whitefield School - E17 4AZ Ofsted rating:Outstanding
  Profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, speech language communication difficulties,  autism spectrum, visual impairment, hearing impairment.
• Joseph Clarke - E4 9PP
  Ofsted rating: Good
  Visually impaired and autism spectrum conditions

Special Resourced Provisions in mainstream schools provide a secure supportive environment within a standard context. This enables children and young people with SEND to access the usual curriculum alongside their peers.

Specialised facilities and specialists are attached to the provision, with help from teachers, therapists and others whose expertise is needed. Children will be based on the resource. They'll also spend time in the regular classroom, and/or children from the mainstream may spend time in the resource.

Resourced provision can mean that your child may benefit in the following ways:

• Go to the same school as their sibling
• Mix with children who are non-SEND
• Attend some mainstream classes where possible

It isn’t only special resourced provision that works in this way. Many special schools actively encourage their children to spend as much time as possible in a mainstream environment (dual registration). Visits are carefully planned to suit the needs of the child and indeed members of the class the child will be integrated into. 

In Waltham Forest, we have the following Resourced Provision:

Types of Provision Key: 

HI - Hearing Impaired, GDD - Global Development Delay, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, VI - Visual Impairment and SLCN - Speech, Language, and Communication Need.

Young people will tend to be in resourced provision in a General Further Education College (GFE) with access to mainstream classrooms.  In Waltham Forest this will be Waltham Forest College (E17)

Young people can also attend School Sixth Forms or Sixth Form Colleges.  If you attend these institutions, young people will be more likely to have personalised additional support to assist them in their learning.  In Waltham Forest the Sixth Form Colleges are:

• Leyton Sixth Form - E11
• Sir George Monoux - E17