Special Education Needs

SEND support

Northampton School for Girls believes that every student is entitled to the same opportunities to learn and make progress without exception. As a positive, supportive, and inclusive school, we intend to remove barriers to learning and promote full participation with the school's broad and balanced curriculum and extensive extracurricular programme.

The Inclusion Team at Northampton School for Girls provides additional support for students with SEND following the Graduated Approach. The West Northants SEND Ranges is embedded into our practice. Please see below for further information.

Students with special educational needs and/or disabilities without an EHCP are admitted via the usual Local Authority application processes. Those students with an EHCP must follow the EHCP application process through their Local Authority's EHCP team. We ask that, in ALL cases, parents/carers to discuss their potential application to Northampton School for Girls with our Special Educational Needs and Disability Co-ordinators (SENDCO), contact details can be found below. As parents/carers, it is vitally important that you feel sure that the school provides the right fit and environment for your child.

Definition of Special Educational Needs

A child or young person has Special Education Needs if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:

Have a significantly greater difficulty learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
Have a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools.

Contact information:

If you have any queries regarding our SEND provision, please contact SENDteam email: send@nsg.northants.sch.uk

We would like to make it as easy as possible for parents or guardians to access school information as well as the school site. Please contact the SEND team directly should you need any support accessing this information or visiting the school site.

Meet the SEND team

Mrs Smallman

SEND and Inclusion leader

Mrs Nixon

SENDCO

Miss Kenyon

Assistant SENDCO

Mrs Armstrong

SEND administrator

EHCP admissions September 2026

We are unable to respond to individual communications from parents until consultations have been received from your local authority. Please ensure you attend one of our presentation evenings on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th October 2025. Our SENDCOs will be available to speak with you at these events.

EHCP admissions September 2027

We are unable to respond to individual requests for contact. Please ensure you monitor the website for the Open Evening information for Autumn 2026. Our SENDCOs will be available to speak to you at our Open Evenings.

West Northamptonshire SEND Ranges information

The SEND Ranges are West Northamptonshire’s approach to the Graduated Approach as outlined in the SEND Code of Practice 2015.

West Northants continue to share that they will be collaborating across all services, including families, to ensure that these are fully embedded in all our schools, colleges and settings. There have been extensive training opportunities across the spring and summer terms to ensure that all staff and families are familiar with the SEND Ranges and can ask those pertinent questions that ‘make inclusion happen’. The vision is that ‘we can all work together to ensure that all our children and young people get the right support at the right time.’

West Northamptonshire Council Local offer

West Northamptonshire’s Local Offer where information about services available for children and young people (aged 0 to 25) with special educational needs and disabilities in West Northamptonshire is published.

What the Local Offer provides

The Local Offer will:

provide information for families with children who have a special educational need or disability
improve choice and transparency for these families
help professionals to understand the range of services and provision available locally
improve joint commissioning arrangements for services by setting out (in a single place) what is available locally

You can find information on their search directory and the webpages about:

special educational provision
health provision
social care provision
other educational provision
training provision
arrangements for children and young people to travel to schools, colleges and early years education
leisure and sports opportunities
preparing for adulthood information
policies, YouTube links, easy read documents, guides, fact sheets and leaflets

West Northamptonshire Council website

Northampton Parent Partnership Service website

West Northants SEND Information, Advice and Support Service is a statutory service which operates at ‘arm’s length’ from West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) and the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and provides free, confidential, impartial advice, and support to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and their parents/carers.

They offer advice to professionals who support children and young people with SEND and their families.

Information Advice Support Service website – (SENDIASS)

National Links:

SEN Code Special educational needs and disability code of practice: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7dcb85ed915d2ac884d995/SEND_Code_of_Practice_January_2015.pdf
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan (March 2023): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63ff39d28fa8f527fb67cb06/SEND_and_alternative_provision_improvement_plan.pdf

Local Links:

West Northants

West Northamptonshire SEND Strategy: https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/local-offer/send-strategy
West Northamptonshire Local offer: https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/local-offer
West Northamptonshire SEND Ranges Document: https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/directory/local-offer/f54062f2-62a9-49d1-bcf8-3d267836e45d
SEND Support Services: https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/specialist-send-support-services
Northampton Parent Partnership Service: https://iassnorthants.co.uk/
West Northants Voices in Partnership (WNVP): https://www.wnvp.co.uk/

North Northants:

North Northants Local Offer: https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/schools-and-education/local-offer-send-and-ehc-plans
North Northants SEND IASS: https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/schools-and-education/send-information-advice-support-service
North Northants Council – SEND Support Service: https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/specialist-send-support-services/send-support-service

Northamptonshire:

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust: https://nctrust.co.uk/
Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Partnership : https://northamptonshirescp.org.uk/
Northamptonshire Healthcare: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/