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<p>The Department does not collect data on changes made to local authority maintained
schools, as local authorities are responsible for making such changes.</p><p> </p><p>Since
September 2016, three academies have removed provision reserved for children with
special educational needs (SEN); this includes “resourced provision” and “designated
SEN units”. A further academy has proposed to close its SEN provision.</p><p> </p><p>Although
one of these academies closed its provision due to financial unviability; in the main,
SEN provision is removed from a particular school because of reorganisation, so the
provision is retained but delivered elsewhere.</p><p> </p><p>Within the same timeframe
seven academies have added new SEN provision, one academy is due to add provision
in September this year and a further two have proposed to do so.</p><p> </p>
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