SEN information report: what to publish on your school website
Your website needs an SEN information report on how you support pupils with special educational needs, how you identify needs and how to contact your SENCO.
Check this on my websiteWho it applies to
- Published on
- The school's own website
- School type
- Academies and maintained schools
- School stage
- All stages, from early years to sixth form
- Does not apply to
- Nursery schools
When it's due
Every year
Counted from your last update.
What's needed
Publish your SEN information report on the SEND page on your website, covering the needs you provide for, how needs are identified and the SENCO's contact details, and update it every year.
In this requirement
Section 1 of 2
What the report covers
The school must publish an SEN information report: the kinds of SEN provided for, identifying and assessing pupils with SEN, the SENCO contact, support services for parents, complaints about SEN provision, the local offer, arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils, and the accessibility plan.
The register sets this section for maintained schools only.
What it must contain
10 parts- Names the kinds of special educational needs the school provides forMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Sets out the policies for identifying and assessing pupils with special educational needsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Names the SEN co-ordinator and gives their contact detailsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Sets out the arrangements for treating complaints from parents of pupils with special educational needsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Says where the local authority's local offer is publishedMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Sets out the arrangements for admitting disabled pupilsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Says the steps taken to stop disabled pupils being treated less favourably than other pupilsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Names the facilities provided to help disabled pupils access the schoolMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Gives the school's accessibility planMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
- Gives contact details for support services for parents of pupils with special educational needsMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
What the official sources say
Set out in 2 official sources:
Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1530), incl. Schedule 1 (SEN information report)
52 The governing body or proprietor of the school must publish on the school's website its report containing SEN information.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 reg 52 (Manner of publication of report)
51 For the purpose of section 69(3)(a) of the Act the SEN information which the governing body or proprietor of every maintained school, maintained nursery school and Academy school (other than a special school that is established in a hospital) must include in a report containing SEN information is set out in Schedule 1.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 reg 51 (Prescribed information that must be included in SEN information report); Schedule 1 paras 1-13
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4 In relation to mainstream schools and maintained nursery schools, the name and contact details of the SEN co-ordinator.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 Schedule 1 para 4
13 Information on where the local authority's local offer is published.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 Schedule 1 para 13
11 The contact details of support services for the parents of pupils with special educational needs, including those for arrangements made in accordance with section 32.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 Schedule 1 para 11
9 Any arrangements made by the governing body or the proprietor relating to the treatment of complaints from parents of pupils with special educational needs concerning the provision made at the school.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 Schedule 1 para 9
2 Information, in relation to mainstream schools and maintained nursery schools, about the school's policies for the identification and assessment of pupils with special educational needs.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ SEND Regulations 2014 Schedule 1 para 2
1 The kinds of special educational needs for which provision is made at the school.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Schedule 1 paragraph 1 (SEN information)
Children and Families Act 2014 s69 (SEN information report)
2 A governing body or proprietor must prepare a report containing SEN information.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Children and Families Act 2014 s69(2); duty-holders at s69(1)(a)-(b)
1 This section imposes a duty on— a the governing bodies of maintained schools and maintained nursery schools in England, and b the proprietors of Academy schools.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Children and Families Act 2014 s69(1)
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b information as to— i the arrangements for the admission of disabled persons as pupils at the school; ii the steps taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other pupils; iii the facilities provided to assist access to the school by disabled pupils; iv the plan prepared by the governing body or proprietor under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan).
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Children and Families Act 2014 s69(3)(b)(i)-(iv)
a such information as may be prescribed about the implementation of the governing body's or proprietor's policy for pupils at the school with special educational needs;
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Children and Families Act 2014 s69(3)(a)
Section 2 of 2
Local offer information
The school must publish information on where the local authority's local offer is published - the council's guide to SEND support in the area - and give details of the school's contribution to the local offer.
The register sets this section for maintained schools only.
What it must contain
1 part- Says what the school contributes to the local authority's local offerMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
What the official sources say
Set out in 1 official source:
SEND Code of Practice
It should also give details of the school’s contribution to the Local Offer and must include information on where the local authority’s Local Offer is published.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Chapter 6, para 6.81, page 107
Schools must publish more detailed information about their arrangements for identifying, assessing and making provision for pupils with SEN (see Chapter 6, Schools).
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Chapter 4, para 4.34, page 69
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The school-specific information should relate to the schools’ arrangements for providing a graduated response to children’s SEN. It should elaborate on the information provided at a local authority wide level in the Local Offer.
Should: Recommended in official guidance, such as the DfE's. Not a legal requirement in itself.§ Chapter 4, para 4.35, page 69
All schools must publish details of what SEN provision is available through the information report and co-operate with the local authority in drawing up and reviewing the Local Offer.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Chapter 3, para 3.70 table, row 'Maintained nurseries and schools (including academies)', page 58
Questions schools ask
Do schools have to publish an SEN information report?
What the report covers: Academies and maintained schools must. Local offer information: Academies and maintained schools must.
What does an SEN information report need to include?
Names the kinds of special educational needs the school provides for; Sets out the policies for identifying and assessing pupils with special educational needs; Names the SEN co-ordinator and gives their contact details; Sets out the arrangements for treating complaints from parents of pupils with special educational needs; Says where the local authority's local offer is published; Sets out the arrangements for admitting disabled pupils; and 5 more parts listed above.
How often does our SEN information report need updating?
Every year. Counted from your last update.
Where does the requirement for the SEN information report come from?
It is set out in Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1530), incl. Schedule 1 (SEN information report), Children and Families Act 2014 s69 (SEN information report) and SEND Code of Practice.
Recent changes to the official guidance
The official sources for this requirement don't publish dated change notes. We check them for changes ourselves.
We last checked these sources on 21 September 2026.
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Official wording that does not apply to schools (3)
57 A local authority must— a publish its local offer by placing it on their website; b publish its arrangements for enabling— i people without access to the Internet; and ii different groups, including people with special educational needs or a disability, to obtain a copy of the offer; and c publish how those people identified in paragraph (b) can provide comments on the local offer.
4.36 The Local Offer must make clear where this information can be found and must make clear how young people and parents can find relevant information published by post-16 institutions about their SEN provision (see Chapter 7).
4.62 Local authorities must make their Local Offer widely accessible and on a website. They must publish their arrangements for enabling those without access to the internet to get the information.
Official sources last checked 21 September 2026 · register version 1.0.4