The delivery of local service for the NCSE is the responsibility of the Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO). SENOs deal with the following resource allocation functions:
- Processing applications from all schools for resource teacher support in respect of children with low-incidence disabilities such as moderate general learning disabilities, visual or hearing impairments, physical disabilities or autism, and deciding on the level of support appropriate to the school
- Processing applications from second-level schools for resource teacher support in respect of children with high-incidence disabilities such as mild general learning disability and deciding on the level of support appropriate to the school
- Processing applications from schools and deciding on the appropriate level of special needs assistant support for children with disabilities
- Examining applications from all schools for special equipment/assistive technologyExamining applications from schools for transport arrangements for children with disabilities and making recommendations to the Department of Education & Science
- Providing a list of possible educational settings for individual children with special educational needs
(from NCSE website)
