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Schools with social, emotional and mental health provision in Wakefield

For pupils whose anxiety, behaviour or mental health gets in the way of learning; smaller groups and therapeutic support. Wakefield has 1 mainstream school with a unit or resourced provision for social, emotional and mental health and 1 special school that caters for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (1)

Pupils have a specialist base and staff inside an ordinary school. Places are separate from the school's main admissions and normally need an EHC plan.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion ResourcePrimary school · also speech, language and communicationSEN unit and resourced provision3-11Pontefract20Good 202410

Special schools (1)

Special schools take pupils with an education, health and care plan; the council names the school in the plan. Many cater for several needs.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
High Well SchoolSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, speech, language and communicationSpecial school9-16Pontefract104 pupilsGood 2022

Mainstream schools listed for this need (1)

Registered for this need without a separate unit, so provision is within ordinary classes.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Castleford Park Junior AcademyPrimary school · also speech, language and communicationMainstream, listed for this need7-11CastlefordGood 202442

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How to read this

The list comes from the Department for Education's register of schools (Get Information about Schools), which records the type of SEN provision each school has and how many pupils are in a resourced provision or SEN unit. Resourced provision means extra staff and funding for a group of pupils who spend most of their time in ordinary classes. A SEN unit is a separate class within the school. Both need a place agreed by the council through an education, health and care plan; ask the council's SEND team, not the school's admissions office. The register is only as good as what schools report, so check with the school before relying on it.