Schools with speech, language and communication provision in Barking and Dagenham

For children who find it hard to understand language or make themselves understood, often with speech and language therapists on site. Barking and Dagenham has 4 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for speech, language and communication and 2 special schools that cater for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (4)

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.

School	Provision	Ages	Town	Places	Ofsted	Score
Eastbrook SchoolAll-through school · also autism	SEN unit and resourced provision	4-19	Dagenham	68	Report card 2025	19
George Carey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health	SEN unit and resourced provision	3-11	Barking	36	Good 2023	55
Hunters Hall Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism	Resourced provision	3-11	Dagenham	13	Good 2023	41
Valence Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, physical disability and more	SEN unit and resourced provision	3-11	Dagenham	64	Good 2024	35

Special schools (2)

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

School	Provision	Ages	Town	Places	Ofsted	Score
Pathways SchoolSpecial school · also moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health	Special school	6-19	Dagenham	83 pupils	Good 2024	–
Riverside Bridge SchoolSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties	Special school	4-16	Barking	291 pupils	Good 2020	–

Other councils All schools in Barking and Dagenham

Other needs

Autism Social, emotional and mental health Moderate learning difficulties Severe learning difficulties Profound and multiple learning difficulties Hearing impairment Visual impairment Multi-sensory impairment Physical disability Specific learning difficulties Other needs

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.