Fit for All sessions are part-funded by HAF – which provides healthy school holiday meals and activities for children who are eligible for Free School Meals. Alongside these children, Fit for All can also provide HAF-funded places for children with SEND or who are vulnerable due to particular circumstances. What are are the definitions?
SEND stands for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. We say a child or young person has SEND: if they are, or should be, receiving SEN support at school; or if they are disabled by something for which they have, or are awaiting, a diagnosis.
‘Vulnerable’ is harder to define, but we include children and young people: with a SEND sibling; or who are in care; or who are carers themselves; or who are at direct risk of abuse and exploitation; or who are subject to pressures arising, for example from family circumstances or their own physical or mental health, that threaten to disable them to the extent of a child or young person with SEND.