Children with Special Educational Needs

Frequently asked questions

What is an individual education plan?

If your child is receiving extra teaching as part of school action or school action plus, they might have an individual education plan.

The child's class teacher, possibly with the help of the Special Educational Needs Coordinator, will record the strategies planned to help your child progress. The individual education plan will include information about:

What your child can currently do
The short-term targets set for, or by, the child
The teaching strategies to be used
The arrangements to be put in place
The review date
What your child should be able to do at the end (called success criteria); and
What your child could do at the end (called outcomes)

The individual education plan should only record what is different from what is in place for the rest of the group or class. There should be no more than 3 or 4 targets.

Many schools will have this information recorded on a provision map. This map outlines the interventions that the school can offers. The targets and success criteria will be part of the programme.

The review will focus on the how well the interventions worked to help your child progress.