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low self-esteem and can deteriorate succeeding results, labelling students of ‘special needs’ frequently persuades school management to treat them differently and separately instead of perusing them in regular class. To treat them differently and separately are considered to be the handicap present in the existing SEN system. The introduction of The Equality Act 2010 sought to eliminate those elements within schools of treating SEN students differently and separately. Through the requirements of anti-discrimination measures, reasonable adjustments and treating disabled and SEN students more favourably the intended outcome is to improve the experience and achievements of these students.

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History of Special Educational Needs in the UK

According to the Education Act, 1996, a child has special educational needs (herein after will be referred as SEN) if there is a learning hardship which needs supply of special educational care to him on the basis of his learning difficulty. For the purposes of SEN, a child includes any individual who is under the age of nineteen who is a registered student at a School in UK. Under section 323 of the Education Act (1996), a local authority from the local Council may issue a Statement of Educational Needs. This is a legal document which delineates about SEN of the child and explains how these requirements will be met with. The term SEN was first introduced by the Warnock Report of the late 1970s. Earlier, disabled students who needed special education were taken care of by 1944 Education Act where it stipulated ten categories for identification of children with SEN.