Supporting learners with SEND at InspirED Pathways
InspirED Pathways (IP) forms part of the Education Entitlement Team in Coventry and works in partnership with the local authority’s SEND team and Coventry Alternative Provision offer.
Our School SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator) is Kay Griffin.
The referral routes for our school include commissioning via the Local Authority’s ESNAP (Extended Non-Attendance Panel) through which Coventry Schools identify specific pupils for advice. As such, at InspirED Pathways all pupils are identified on the Register of Additional Need as being at our Tier 1 support, which we equate to ‘SEND Support’. Pupils arrive to our school with established needs as identified by their donor school and will typically be centred around communication and interaction difficulties and SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) needs.
We support our pupils with the following:
- provision of a smaller setting
- higher staff-to-student ratio
- curriculum with a strong social-emotional component
- Learning personalisation
- Smaller teaching groups
- Staff body with a high level of expertise in working with ASC and SEMH needs.
- Early intervention for KS3 via Routes pathway (12-week short term intervention alongside relationship building with mainstream).
Where a pupil is viewed to require more formalised support through an Educational Health Care Plan, we will liaise with the home school to initiate statutory assessment and contribute to the statutory assessment process.
This process is outlined in more detail within our ‘SEND Information Report’ and follows national guidance.