A list of all independent schools and special post-16 institutions for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) approved under section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014 in England and Wales.

You can filter the list by local authority or by type of setting.

Our guide for independent special schools and special post-16 institutions explains how to apply for approval under section 41.

Voluntary removal

Contact hns.sos@education.gov.uk to request removal from the approved list, stating your reason. We will remove your institution in the next update and notify local authorities. The published list includes all removed institutions.

Once removed, you cannot re-apply for one full academic year.

Other special schools

Details of all special schools in England are available on the https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Search" class="govuk-link">Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools system. This includes:

• maintained schools
• academies
• independent schools
• non-maintained schools

The SEND guide for parents and carers explains how parents can ask for one of these schools or special post-16 institutions to be named in their child’s education, health and care plan.

The London Schools Atlas is an innovative interactive online map of London providing a uniquely detailed and comprehensive picture of London schools, current patterns of attendance and potential future demand for school places across the capital. The Atlas is part of the Mayor's programme of initiatives aimed at driving up standards in education and ensuring there are enough good places for all children in the city. Covering primary and secondary provision, including academies and free schools, the London Schools Atlas for the first time uses data to illustrate current patterns of demand for school places at a pan-London level, rather than within boroughs alone. You can use the atlas at the link below: London Schools Atlas - homepage Download the Data: The files below contain the home location to school matrices used to create the catchment elements of the maps. Please ensure you read the notes page in each file before using the data. School location/attribute information has been sourced from the Edubase database. In addition to the datasets below, the following data sources that are used in the Atlas are also available in the London Datastore: * Pan-London School Place Demand data * DCLG Indices of Deprivation 2015 * London Output Area Classification LOAC 2014 London Schools Atlas datasets can be downloaded from here (format: .zip, size: 5.41MB) 2015 London Schools Atlas datasets can be downloaded from here (format: .zip, size: 7.8 MB)

Students from the Chinese ethnic group had the highest entry rate into higher education in every year from 2006 to 2024.

For the latest individual inspection reports, please visit our reports website.

Schools management information: release schedule

The release schedule for monthly management information: state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.

The release is the date by which the inspection must have been completed and the report must have been published in order to be included in the management information.

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In the 10 years to July 2024, the percentage of further education students who were from Asian, Black, Mixed and Other ethnic backgrounds went up from 19.7% to 27.9%.

81% of students went into education, apprenticeships or employment for at least 2 terms after reaching the end of 16 to 18 study in 2017 (including A levels).

The London Schools Atlas è un'innovativa mappa interattiva online di Londra che fornisce un quadro dettagliato e completo delle scuole di Londra, degli attuali modelli di frequenza e della potenziale domanda futura di posti scolastici in tutta la capitale.

L'Atlante fa parte del programma di iniziative del sindaco volte a migliorare gli standard nell'istruzione e garantire che ci siano abbastanza posti buoni per tutti i bambini in città.

Coprendo la fornitura primaria e secondaria, comprese le accademie e le scuole gratuite, il London Schools Atlas utilizza per la prima volta i dati per illustrare gli attuali modelli di domanda di posti scolastici a livello pan-Londra, piuttosto che all'interno dei soli distretti.

È possibile utilizzare l'atlante al link qui sotto:

Atlante delle scuole di Londra - homepage

Scarica i dati:

I file sottostanti contengono la posizione di casa per le matrici scolastiche utilizzate per creare gli elementi di utenza delle mappe. Assicurati di leggere la pagina delle note in ogni file prima di utilizzare i dati. Le informazioni sulla posizione/l'attributo della scuola sono state ricavate dalla banca dati Edubase.

Oltre ai set di dati riportati di seguito, nel London Datastore sono disponibili anche le seguenti fonti di dati utilizzate nell'Atlante:

• Pan-London School Place Demand dati
• DCLG Indice di deprivazione 2015
• Classificazione della zona di uscita di Londra LOAC

I dataset 2014 di London Schools Atlas possono essere scaricati da qui (formato: .zip, dimensione: 5.41MB)

I set di dati dell'Atlante delle scuole di Londra 2015 possono essere scaricati da qui (formato: .zip, dimensione: 7.8 MB)

A level students in the Chinese ethnic group had an average point score of 39.83 in the 2022 to 2023 academic year – the highest score out of all ethnic groups.

Young people from the Chinese (4.5%) and Indian (7.3%) ethnic groups were less likely than the UK average (11.5%) to be not in employment, education or training.

Pupils from the Chinese ethnic group were most likely to meet both the expected and higher standards in reading, writing and maths in 2018/19.

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The COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO) is a longitudinal cohort study, a collaboration between the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), and the Sutton Trust. The overarching aim of COSMO is to provide a representative data resource to support research into how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the life chances of pupils with different characteristics, in terms of short-term effects on educational attainment, and long-term educational and career outcomes.

The topics covered by COSMO include, but are not limited to, young people's education experiences during the pandemic, cancelled assessments and education and career aspirations. They have also been asked for consent for linking their survey data to their administrative data held by organisations such as the UK Department for Education (DfE). Linked data is planned to be made available to researchers through the ONS Secure Research Service.

Young people who were in Year 11 in the 2020-2021 academic year were drawn as a clustered and stratified random sample from the National Pupil Database held by the DfE, as well as from a separate sample of independent schools from DfE's Get Information about Schools database. The parents/guardians of the sampled young people were also invited to take part in COSMO. Data from parents/guardians complement the data collected from young people.

Further information about the study may be found on the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO) webpage.

COSMO Wave 2, 2022-2023
All young people who took part in Wave 1 (see SN 9000) were invited to the second Wave of the study, along with their parents (whether or not they took part in Wave 1).

Data collection in Wave 2 was carried out between October 2022 and April 2023 where young people and parents/guardians were first invited to a web survey. In addition to online reminders, some non-respondents were followed up via face-to-face visits or telephone calls over the winter and throughout spring. Online ‘mop-up’ fieldwork was also carried out to invite all non-respondents into the survey one last time before the end of fieldwork.

Latest edition information:
For the second edition (April 2024), a standalone dataset from the Keeping in Touch (KIT) exercise carried out after the completion of Wave 2, late 2023 have been deposited. This entailed a very short questionnaire for updating contact details and brief updates on young people's lives. A longitudinal parents dataset has also been deposited, to help data users find core background information from parents who took part in either Wave 1 or Wave 2 in one place. Finally, the young people's dataset has been updated (version 1.1) with additional codes added from some open-ended questions. The COSMO Wave 1 Data User Guide Version 1.1 explains these updates in detail. A technical report and accompanying appendices has also been deposited.

Further information about the study may be found on the COSMO website.

For young people, Wave 2 included:

• a household grid
• changes to current status since Wave 1
• qualifications studied towards
• early labour market experience
• residual disruption due to the pandemic
• university applications
• attitudes to education and future careers
• spare time/leisure activities
• homelessness
• health and wellbeing
• friends, peers and family support
• health-related behaviours.

For parents, Wave 2 included:

• demographics
• attitudes to education/education and career aspirations
• parenting, home learning, tuition and catch-up
• working status across the pandemic (since the last interview for parents also interviewed in Wave 1)
• parental tenure, HRP and occupation details
• parental education
• parental income
• grandparents
• COVID-19 history and vaccination
• parent health and wellbeing
• disadvantage.

The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals that there exists a disparity between the internet usage of people with a low (At most lower secondary education), medium (Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education), and high (Tertiary education) formal education level. This disparity although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.

In 2019, 36 percent of users with low formal education in the United Kingdom replied that they used the internet to find information about goods and services. A higher share of users with medium or higher education tended to use the internet for this purpose. According to the 2020 survey 83 percent of people with a medium level of formal education 93 percent of users with a high degree of formal education informed themselves about goods and services online.

In the 10 years to July 2024, the number of apprentices from the Asian, Black, Mixed and Other ethnic groups combined went up from 90,800 to 111,200.

Further information about the study may be found on the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO) webpage.

Further information about the study may be found on the COSMO website.

64.2% pupils from the Chinese ethnic group were entered for the EBacc, and 46.7% achieved it in the 2022 to 2023 school year – the highest percentages out of all ethnic groups.