Well, I described more or less my experience in previous messages, but in short, I didn't find understanding of my child's problem, and not that much with teachers as with head personnel. Teachers, even if they wanted to help, admitted, that they can't change anything without their permission. Most popular frase from the headteacher was: what about other children, always other children...My child is SEN. Has got plan, where all issues were there. At the beginning I was assured that they know what they were doing, and everything will be fine. But it wasn't fine. First i started to discuss this with teachers, then I understood that they are not decision makers, that I had to move on head of SEN. Then I discovered that the head of SEN cannot do anything without decision from the head. I moved on the headteacher only to discover that even her is not a decision maker, it's actually a founder. The founder, according to her had her own children with SEN, and they did not do things my child did, therefore, she concluded, that my child shouldn't be doing what he does. Year passed in all that. My child would come home angry every day, and at some point he would be completely unreachable. He lost trust in me that I can help him, and I had to send him every day to a place where no one wanted him. He was blamed for things he hasn't done. It was hell to distinguish what of all this he had done, and what he didn't. How was I supposed to be fair to my child? It's important to be fair, to ensure his cooperation. I cought the head in manipulation once, and she said it doesn't matter, it's not really important as he was involved anyway. She refused to be fair. He also was addressed demonstratively infront of the whole classrooms, showing to everyone that he was different, he was so ashamed. When he asked head, why he has a different system than other children, he was told, that he brought it on himself. In the end he stopped cooperating at school as well as at home. He hated teachers, he hated parents, he couldn't understand why it's all happening to him. He was confused with different changes and systems, eventually, he just gave up. I had to change this environment for him, and move him elsewhere. He didn't go to specialized school, as the founder had suggested. He is finishing mainstream school now with decent results, fingers crossed. Sorry, I wanted to be short, but it turned out long. Bottom line: if you don't have problems with your child, chances are, that you wouldn't know about all this. You will be welcomed, you child will make good friends. My child did, missed them a lot. Teachers will be nice to you and your child. But for SEN I would reccomend ordinary state school, they are much more equipped to deal with all sort of individual issues. Partially it was my mistake. I thought in big school, my child will disappear, turned out completely opposite. And I was so assured when I spoke to them, they looked so confident, I believed them, my mistake. This was several years ago, perhaps it's not like that anymore, don't know what's the present situation now. Hopefully it helps. :)