Education support services
There are many services and teams to support you with education:
- Medway Sensory Service - a team of seven specialist teachers and support staff who work with children and young people with physical, hearing and visual impairment from 0 to 25 years
- Early Years SEND Team - Specialist SEND practitioners who work with children aged 0 to 4 who have been identified as having complex additional needs
- Educational psychologists - who work with children and young people aged 0 to 25 in pre-school and education settings supporting learning and emotional wellbeing
- Medway Information, Advice and Guidance Service (IAG) - offering a specialist service and helps ensure that all 16 and 17 year-olds are accessing a form of further education. This can be either at school, college or while at work
- Fortis Trust Outreach Service - offering support, training and advice to preschools, schools and further education colleges. This enables students with SEND to succeed in the mainstream setting
- Hoo St Werburgh Primary School And Marlborough Centre - Marlborough has a team of specialist teachers who are able to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, communication and interaction needs in the mainstream school setting.
Provision outside Medway
Medway supports the idea that children and young people’s education and training needs are best met when they can access local mainstream provision. In exceptional circumstances, it may not be possible or appropriate to do this.
It may be decided after discussions with your SEN officer that your child or young person’s needs would be best met at an independent specialist provision outside the area.
Applications will be based on the needs identified in the child or young person’s EHCP.
If local provision does not meet these needs, we'll consider an alternative independent provider.
Search for Independent special schools and post-16 colleges outside Medway.
View the Section 41 list of government approved independent special schools and colleges.