CHILDREN with Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are statistically less likely to take part in school sport or any physical activity.
According to the department of Education, 18.4% or 1.6 million children have a known SEND and yet only 25% of these children admit to taking part in sporting activities while at school.
The number of pupils with SEND is growing and schools have been struggling to accommodate; two thirds of specialised SEND schools are at or over capacity.
Many non-SEND schools simply lack the funding, specialised resources and staff to appropriately provide sports access to many SEND students, which leaves them often feeling like they can’t join in.
This has resulted in many volunteer run SEND sports clubs appearing round the Country such as Multi Sports club.
Clubs like this allow more personal coaching with volunteers who know how to work with pupils as well as community feel of participating with other people with SEND.
Clubs like this reduce the fear of participation and judgement due to being surrounded with similar people and with the sessions being structured to accommodate.
However, these vital clubs also struggle often being run by parents and occasional volunteers.
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