Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator Role

In a school the role of the Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator is to “assessing, planning and monitoring the progress of children with Special Educational Needs.” (Sutton Parent Partnership Service). They are a member of staff in a school or nursery and parents and staff go to them if they need help or advice on how to deal with a child with Special Educational Needs. The roles of a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator changes depending on the setting they are in for example if they are in a setting like a nursery their responsibilities would include collecting information on any children with Special Educational Needs, this is important so that the parents of the child or any external agencies that work with that child knows what they …show more content…
For children already in schools the role of the Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator is to follow the schools Special Educational Needs policy, help out the learning support assistants and to make sure they are helping children with Special Educational Needs to the best of their ability and to ensure that they know all the needs of the Special Educational Needs children and that they know anything that will help the child be happy and comfortable in the setting and to help them develop as much as …show more content…
There could also be an issue of time as there is a lot of paperwork to be done with being a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator such as reports on a child and how they have been through the day, any external agencies that the children work with trying to arrange meetings and appointments to work best around the staff and children also trying to keep on top of any classes that they might teach and dealing with parents. Another issue with being a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator is funding, it can sometimes be expensive to accommodate for a child with Special Educational Needs but a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator has to deal with many of them and this can mean having to pay for different equipment that those children need and the funding is not always available for this, they also need the funding to hire one to one tutors for these children which would cost a lot of