Understand your requirements
Your schools must have a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) policy. You can set a trust-wide policy, or you could ask each school to adapt our template if you want them to have a more bespoke policy. It doesn't need to be a separate, standalone document.
Make sure this policy is reviewed annually by the board of trustees or the school's proprietor.
It's best practice to publish the policy on your website. Your academies could link to your trust website, and/or publish their own copy of the policy on their websites.
This is set out in paragraphs 3.66, 6.2, 6.79, 6.81 and the introduction to chapter 6 of the SEND Code
