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What is an ARC?

Our ARC is called The Rainbows

The ARC provision has 9 spaces for children who have a verified diagnosis of autism made by appropriately qualified specialists as detailed under NICE guidelines.

 

Children in our ARC have an Education, Health and Care Plan with autism as a primary need. There may be co-morbid conditions recognised with the autism need.

 

The provision detailed in the EHCP will state that our children need substantial adult support and a small, structured environment or settings to manage the social, environmental, sensory demands and learning needs. Our children also benefit from access to a differentiated, thematic or personalised curriculum and will be working significantly below national curriculum expectations.

 

How are we different from an ARP?

The children that attend the ARC will need all of their learning and social time within the ARC provision.  Unlike an ARP, the children in our ARC do not integrate with the main stream part of our school.

 

I'm interested in my child attending Rainbows ARC

To be allocated a place at the ARC your child must:

  • Have a diagnosis of autism
  • Have an EHCP
  • Have specialist provision agreed on the EHCP
  • Be working significantly below national curriculum expectations and be expected to for the whole of primary phase of their education

 

Children attending Mill Lodge ARC will transition to secondary specialist settings.

 

Children are allocated a place at the ARC through the following process:

 

  1. The child's current school states that they cannot meet the child's need during an EHCP review. 
  2. As part of the EHCP review, the child's current school provides evidence, along with advice from external professionals, as to what provision the child needs. 
  3. The Local Authority holds a panel for professionals to review the evidence and either agree or disagree that the child needs a provision that is more than mainstream. Specialist provision must be agreed. If the panel agrees:
  4. The Local Authority will consult with our ARC
  5. The ARC will review the child's EHCP and state whether they can meet the needs of the child as outlined in section F of their EHCP. 
  6. The ARC will respond to the local authority and if the ARC can meet the child's need the team will contact parents to begin a transition to the ARC.
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