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.’ 

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EHCP Admissions Process

 

 

1. Discuss your daughter's secondary transfer with the current primary school’s SENCO. The EHCP review should consider your daughter's needs, the support required at secondary school and the parent’s preferred placement.

2. Tell the child’s EHC caseworker that NSG is the preferred school. Ask for Northampton School for Girls to be named in the amended EHCP. Complete any EHCP preference paperwork supplied by the authority. Families living outside West Northamptonshire should work through the authority responsible for their daughter's EHCP.

3. The local authority formally consults NSG. NSG considers the EHCP and the provision needed and responds to the authority. The local authority then makes the placement decision; please note expressing a preference does not itself confirm a place.

4. The local authority issues the final amended EHCP naming the secondary placement. For a child transferring in September 2027, the deadline is 15 February 2027. If the parent disagrees with the placement named, the appeal route is the SEND Tribunal.

Please note, children whose EHCP names NSG are allocated places before the remaining places are distributed, and they are not required to sit the Cognitive Ability Test (CAT) as part of the admissions process.

 

If your daughter has recently submitted an RSA (request for statutory assessment), or is currently being assessed but does not yet have a final EHCP, please ensure you apply through the usual secondary admissions process while the assessment continues. Please follow this Link to our admissions page for further information

 

 

 

 

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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

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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)