At Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre, our aim is to provide all students with the support they require, to achieve their potential. We promote - and succeed - in creating an ethos of inclusivity in all of our students’ learning journeys. With high, aspirational expectations, we employ a combination of academic and holistic approaches, to ensure our students strive for their future ambitions.

Regardless of their individual starting points, we prepare all of our students for adulthood and life beyond the Academy; SEND students have appropriate equal opportunities to learning, and wider extra-curricular activities, with all necessary adaptations and reasonable adjustments made, to reduce barriers and enable success.

Every teacher is a teacher of every child or young person, including those with SEND.

(SEND Code of Practice, 2015)

For information about Hillcrest School's support offer please follow link below.
Click here - for Special Educational Needs Information Report

https://www.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/ The Birmingham City Local Offer website gives information about the support  available across education, health and social care. The information on the website is clear and easy to find. It says who a particular service is for, how to apply, and how decisions are made about who gets that service.

The information you should be able to find on the Local Offer Website includes:

• Sources of support, advice and information for children, young people and families including support groups and forums.
• Special educational, health and social care provision for children and young people with SEN or disabilities
• Arrangements to identify and assess children and young people with SEN, including how an assessment can be requested.
• Other educational provision, for example leisure activities, sports or arts provision,
• Information about provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood including post-16 education and training provision
• Arrangements for travel to and from schools, post-16 institutions and early years providers
• Childcare, including suitable provision for disabled children and those with SEND
• Support available to young people in higher education, particularly the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) and the process and timescales for making an application for DSA
• Arrangements for resolving disagreements and for mediation, and details about making complaints