SEN/LDD self-evaluation

Self-evaluation is at the heart of school and local authority (LA) improvement. It supports schools and local authorities with their ongoing cycle of evidence-based planning, evaluation, review and development.

Listed below are some useful self-evaluation materials to support schools and local authorities to evaluate the success of their strategy, provision and outcomes for children and young people with SEN/LDD.

School self-evaluation

• The SEN/AEN Value For Money Resource Pack for Schools (link opens in new window) is a voluntary tool produced by the Audit Commission in conjunction with the National Strategies and the DCSF. It supports schools to:

  • identify the resources that come into school for SEN/AEN to support the personalisation agenda
  • help schools to improve their strategic planning for support and interventions and, critically, to lead them to focus on evaluation of progress and outcomes.

• Supporting school self-evaluation (link opens in new window) is an interactive self-evaluation tool designed to help leadership teams in primary and secondary schools to assess the stage of development of the school in selected focus areas. It offers the opportunity to consider a range of 'best fit' statements using the well-known continuum 'focusing, developing, establishing, enhancing' and then to confirm or alter this initial judgement by referring to descriptors of the kind of evidence a school might look for in its own practice.

Local authority self-evaluation

• The 2009–10 SEN/LDD self-evaluation framework and data set  for local authorities has been developed to support LAs in reviewing and evaluating strategy, services and provision for children and young people with special educational needs/learning difficulties and disabilities (SEN/LDD). It also provides useful SEN/LDD national benchmarked data.

  LA Officers are able to access their own local authority SEN/LDD data, in a PDF format, via the local authority eRoom. This is updated in January each year.